Tokyo artist Jun Kitagawa uses giant 3D zippers to get public's attention. Apr 16, 2014 Maan Pamintuan-Lamorena Features, Lifestyle & Travel 0. Tokyo artist Jun Kitagawa uses giant 3D zippers to get public's attention. The saying, “when a door of ...full story

Last week, we had a round-up of my choices for the seven stupidest art pieces in Tokyo, but lest you think I am just a negative Nelly incapable of appreciating talent and beauty, this week we're presenting Tokyo's seven coolest public art pieces. Again ...full story

Any city with aspirations to be a vibrant international metropolis should invest in interesting, challenging and useful public art, and Tokyo has certainly done so. There are some absolutely amazing artworks scattered around our fair city, but there ...full story

Yumeji Takehisa produced many stunning pieces of art but just like Shusui Kotoku, the revolutionary anarchist, and friend, he was caught up in the world of political intrigues and clashes of culture. His friendship with Shusui Kotoku meant that “within ...full story

Beginning Friday, April 18, drivers on Montauk Highway will have some culture added to their commute, as Roy Lichtenstein's towering sculpture, “Tokyo Brushstroke I & II,” will grace the entrance of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. Completed in ...full story

"Some are related to my current condition, related to my concerns; some are more aesthetic presentations of the kind of concerns that I always have with art, art history," Ai said in a video message. Ai, 56, is one of the world's most famous artists ...full story

The works are the product of Kobayashi Kiyochika, a self-taught artist and son of a minor official in the Tokugawa shogunate, who returned to Tokyo after an eight-year absence in 1874 and set about chronicling the changed city in an ambitious series of ...full story

Utagawa Yoshitaki (1841-1899) produced several stunning pieces of art related to the oni demon. In the main image in this article called the Oni Demon and Catfish you have two very powerful forces at play. Therefore, the individual in this image faces ...full story

The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum located in Hachioji acquired the painting in 1992 but had kept it in storage. “We were unable to display it because we could not identify its creator,” said Akira Gokita, the museum's director. Various theories abound in Italy ...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