Osaka's National Museum of Art is to present “Your Portrait: A Testsumi Kudo Retrospective”, to run between 2 November 2013, and 19 January 2014. The show's title, “Your Portrait”, is inspired by Kudo's preferred title, with the innocent-looking phrase ...full story

Your Portrait was one of Kudo Testsumi's favorite and most frequently used titles. While the word "you" indicated the person looking at the work, and suggested that we are constrained by a variety of established values and conventions, it also referred ...full story

Her solo exhibition “Meditations on the Body” at the National Museum of Art in Osaka featured 100 photographs. Her most recent project is Women of Japan, clothed portraits of women from many cultures and backgrounds. Laurie and Debbie blog together at ...full story

This fabulous bird used to rock on the waves in the bays of the biggest cities of the globe like New-York, Tokyo, Osaka and Sao Paolo, in which it hit the headlines and became an artistic city-shaker. The bird creator, Mr. Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch ...full story

So what was the purpose of the Tokyo trip? Kanak Chanpa Chakma opines that through this the Japanese people became more familiar with a wide variety of Bangladeshi art work. In the triennial and biennale, which had taken place earlier, they did expose ...full story

Standing in front of the largest work at the Dojima River Biennale, currently showing at the Dojima River Forum in Fukushima, Osaka, is a mesmerizing experience. A 10-meter-tall digital projection of an ethereal cascading waterfall, it glows ...full story

A model of Ando's 1989 Church of Light in Osaka, one of his most famous works, underscores his commitment to bringing humans together with nature and spirituality, while the model of Row House in Sumiyoshi, one of his earliest concrete buildings, set ...full story

There was no aesthetic link, rather the thread was in the approach to art and materials. Yoshihara, the son of an Osaka industrialist, published the Gutai Manifesto in 1956, a year after the Swiss-born Stadler, also the son of an industrialist, opened ...full story

74 exhibitors stage contemporary projects of compelling distinction, representing Europe and the Americas, plus the Middle East, South Africa, and East Asia, with 58 galleries returning from previous VOLTA incarnations. ... Copenhagen), whose mythical ...full story

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created the original 54-foot-tall inflatable sculpture, which has been displayed in Amsterdam, Osaka, Sydney, and more recently, Hong Kong. The sculpture will be displayed until June 9 in Hong Kong, where it has received ...full story