“Pastoral (Den'en),” by Ay-O, in “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde” at the Museum of Modern Art, which featured non-Western works that are too rarely seen. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. A new year. A new New York mayor. Old problems with art ...full story

From Jan 18 to March 9 at the Tokyo Station Gallery in Marunouchi, exhibit “Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection” introduces the rich art collection of the British Council, a London based international organization ...full story

In another article by Modern Tokyo Times about bunjinga it was stated that “…while the clampdown against Christianity was a reality and converts would be killed without haste, it is abundantly clear that Edo did not infringe on the teaching of other ...full story

Lin Mun-lee, a professor at National Taipei University of Education's Department of Arts and Design and a curator of the Tokyo exhibition, said it will show Chen's works alongside those of his Taiwanese peers who also studied in Japan around the same time.and more »full story

The biggest-ever exhibition of artist Andy Warhol's work is set to conquer Tokyo in the coming months. “15 Minutes eternal,” the title of the exhibit, is a line from Warhol who actually said that, “in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 ...full story

The well-known actor Yoshizumi Ishihara recently brought a silk screen print of Marilyn Monroe by the iconic artist Andy Warhol to the popular TV show, Nandemo Kanteidan (The Team That Appraises Everything), which appraises personal treasures that may ...full story

Yamamoto Shoun was born in the prefecture of Kochi but during his teenage years he moved to Tokyo. His move to the capital of Japan also witnessed him studying the art form called Nanga. One can only imagine how the environment of Tokyo impacted ...full story

One of the highlights of my art-going year was Kayo Ume's exhibit at Tokyo Opera City. I was won over by the way Ume's series of quirky, serendipitous, and touching snapshots of daily life add up to more than the sum of their parts. Taken on their own, ...full story

The last show in 2013 of Japanese prints at the Toshidama Gallery is a collection of fine works from the nineteenth century. The first part of the exhibition is devoted to the fine series, A Comparison of The Ogura One Hundred Poets. That is followed ...full story

In an earlier article about Yasui Sotaro in Modern Tokyo Times it was stated that “During his stay in Paris he became influenced by the art of Paul Cezanne, Jean-Francois Millet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is stated that he was especially influenced ...full story