He also staged a live painting show at the Nike Stadium gallery in Tokyo in 2010. This time, the graffiti artist was here at the invitation of the Japan Foundation, a government-funded body that promotes international cultural exchange, and which had ... full story
The exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art near Tokyo is her first solo show at a major public museum and marks an important watershed in her career with a combination of old works and a series of newer ones focusing on the cheery theme of suicide. ... full story
Q Pop art store in Little Tokyo will hold an auction Saturday to assist victims of the flooding in Thailand. Q Pop owner Maleerat Panteepo shows a drawing from artist Nagi Koyama that will be among the works available in their Thai flooding relief ... full story
The small towns became big cities and Edo is now called Tokyo, but the Tokaido Road is still famous because of Hiroshige. Come enjoy the story of “Momotaro: The Peach Boy,” a little baby found inside a huge peach floating in a river. ... full story
Years of studying with SW Hayter at the Atelier-17 in Paris followed by woodblock printmaking in Thailand, and then in the studio of Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo, resulted in the perfection of her craft. She has used various mediums of printmaking including ... full story
Murakami also exhibited his art in Madrid, Spain in 2010 and 2011 and in London this past summer. Researchers at Tokyo Polytechnic University conducted a survey of Japan's public opinion on "Cool Japan" in 2010. Only 29.0% of the respondents had heard ... full story
Yanagi, who studied architecture and art at Tokyo's Academy of Fine Art, was inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and by the designer Charlotte Perriand, with whom he worked in the early 1940s, while she was in Tokyo as the arts and crafts adviser to ... full story
The exhibition had been held at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery until December 25, and reopens at Kobe Fashion Museum from January 14, 2012. • Above Mint Designs exhibits at Feel and Think: a New Era of Tokyo Fashion.and more »full story
Hasegawa is Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), and is a seasoned director, curator and advisor for international biennials. The announcement was made on Sunday by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Hasegawa was upbeat about her new ... full story
There are shows for science freaks, animal lovers, music fans, history buffs and of course, lovers of art. Here are a few exhibits that are open in the upcoming weeks. Drawing History: In Little Tokyo, the Japanese American National Museum specializes ... full story
