A Tokyo-based artist known for her genital-inspired works has been released from police custody following her arrest on obscenity charges, her lawyer has said, in a case that triggered accusations of a clampdown on freedom of expression in Japan ...full story

A 42-year-old artist named Megumi Igarashi has been arrested in Tokyo for transmitting 3D models of her vagina which, under Japanese obscenity laws, is considered illegal. She sent the files via email to customers who bought copies on her website.full story

Captivated by Japan's bewildering calligraphy, its art history and the Mars-like surface of Mount Aso, he left London's galleries for Tokyo in 2010. He currently teaches fine art and English in Shibuya, but spends his weekends stumbling across public ...full story

"Eco Edo Nihonbashi Art Aquarium 2014" exhibition in Tokyo is an unique form of art, which brings more than 5,000 goldfish on display in aquariums decorated with colourful lighting, projection mapping, music and even scent. The exhibition lets visitors ...full story

Work by the artist is represented in major museum collections internationally, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kunstmuseum Basel; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, ...full story

“Tsumari Story,” an exhibition of beautiful photographs from remote Japan by RongRong & inri, is in its last days at Mizuma Gallery. The husband and wife artist unit (and their children) spent some time in Tsumari, in close proximity to the isolated ...full story

Alongside a multitude of other projects, Lynch has somehow also managed to continue his work as a visual artist. A total of 22 of his recent works are now on show at the Tomio Koyoma Gallery in Shibuya, following past exhibitions in Tokyo in 2012 and 2013.full story

Sexism and discrimination have been rather hot topics here in Japan following an unpleasant incident at a Tokyo political assembly on June 18, during which female politician Ayaka Shiomura was taunted and mocked by assembleymen while giving a ...full story

As you enter the stark concrete space of Ota Fine Arts you'd be forgiven for wondering if there was even an exhibition on at all. Akin to the set of an ... Since then he has traveled the world, and has recently returned to Tokyo for a second stint ...full story

The exhibition of Chinese art from Taiwan is going ahead as planned after the Tokyo National Museum corrected promotional materials that omitted the word ?National? from references to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The Taiwan museum?s ...full story