An exhibition of contemporary Arab art is being held in Tokyo, the first large-scale show of its kind in this country. Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World strives to convey a contemporary snapshot of this turbulent and rapidly changing region.full story
If you didn't get the chance to fly out to Paris 2 years ago, fear not: the exhibition, titled “Gosse de peintre,” is now at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Shinjuku until September 2! We recently had the opportunity to attend a promotional event ... full story
Japanese idea shop TeamLab, which is known for its stunning art meets technology pieces, sent us this video of this gorgeous "moving mural" that it recently created for Tokyo Skytree, which, apparently, is the highest freestanding broadcasting tower in ... full story
Just a few stops away from Tokyo Skytree Station, Godzilla and his pals have taken over the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo for an epic exhibit of rubber-suited carnage over the next few months. For better or for worse -- other than legendary director ... full story
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama answering questions during a press preview for an 32-hour art event at Roppongi shopping district in Tokyo. Photo courtesy: AFP. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama greets journalists during the press conference in ... full story
'Art in Science' is a monthly column by Prof. Michael Miller of the University of Tokyo Medical School. Each month, he will focus on a new painting and its role in science.full story
(It was also a particularly savvy business move to use a cult Japanese artist, as an astonishing 94 per cent of Tokyo women in their twenties own at least one Louis Vuitton bag - and are always on the lookout to buy another.) When Vuitton opened its ... full story
Not since the 1960s, when Ms. Kusama was a galvanizing New York art-world fixture along with such contemporary artists as Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol, has the work of the artist, who is 83 and has voluntarily lived in a Tokyo ... full story
Kikkawa Reika is on display at the National Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo until 29 July 2012. Few people know about this painter and draughtsman who lived between 1875 and 1929. Reika was born in Yushima near Tokyo. He learned ukiyo-e (popular ... full story
In 1994, I wrote about an exhibition of mangaka Tatsuya Egawa's original sketches at a small art space in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. The sketches, drawn by the author of popular Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari, were "shunga" (pornographic pictures) that could never ... full story
