"Practically every exhibition and art event held after the... earthquake has implicitly or explicitly responded to these life changing events," says Emily Wakeling, a curator and art researcher working in Tokyo. "The majority of artists' responses have ... full story
The Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya has some of the scrolls, as does the Gotoh Museum in Tokyo. An oversized photo-reproduction, translated into English, was published in a limited edition in 1971 by Kodansha International. It is available from rare ... full story
The Art front Gallery, situated in the Shibuya area of Tokyo, is presenting the exhibition “Hajime Hasegawa: Primitive Vehicle” from 24 February to 11 March 2012. Taking inspiration from metallic structures, particularly those of British sculptor ... full story
Now the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, brings to Japan the first retrospective of another New York-based painter who reached abstraction about the same time as Rothko. In celebration of its 60th anniversary, the National Museum of Modern Art, ... full story
(Zhang Nini/The Epoch Times) TOKYO—Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company's debut performance at Tokyo's International Forum on Feb. 14 attracted audience members from all walks of life. When the curtain slowly began to fall at the end of the ... full story
by Fisun GünerMonday, 13 February 2012 Yayoi Kusama, one of Japan's best-known living artists, has spent the past 34 years as a voluntary in-patient in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. Now 82, she was part of the New York avant-garde art scene of the ... full story
All art is attention-seeking, but few artists have ever taken their demands to be noticed to the extremes of Yayoi Kusama. Now 82, and resident by choice for the past 35 years in a psychiatric care home in her native Tokyo, Kusama is currently seeing ... full story
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A series of spring events to promote Japanese food, art and fashion have started in Tokyo as part of the country's "Cool Japan" campaign, the industry ministry said Wednesday. Among the upcoming events are "Ginza Fashion Week," a ... full story
The color palette in the main house came from a series of 19th-century Japanese prints Mr. Garten bought in Tokyo. Walls are painted bright colors: orange in the entryway, yellow in the living room and bright green cabinets in the kitchen.and more »full story
It was the first exhibition organized at the Mori Art Museum (one of Tokyo's two most prominent contemporary art institutions) since the March 2011 disaster, and as such illustrated an avant-garde yet pervasive facet of the country's long history of ... full story
