Things I've been a fan of forever: Hello Kitty. Things I can't get enough of right now: the Hello Kitty Tokyo Pop collection (you can read all about it right here). So when Sanrio approached me about judging their Tokyo Pop contest, where they asked ...full story

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, the pride of the Mauritshuis, surrounded by her admirers in Tokyo. Credit: The Asahi Shimbun, for the Mauritshuis Exhibition in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan. The art of today might overshadow the art of the past in the ...full story

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum attracted 10,573 visitors a day, the highest attendance of any gallery in the world, the Art Newspaper says. With exhibitions containing Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and works by Rembrandt, Hals and Van Dyck ...full story

Chris Hagebak, owner of 809 Gallery, leaves Saturday to go see his watercolor painting, “Romanovs,” in person at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Steven Keel, the potter in residence at the gallery, also has two pots in the show. “It'll be really ...full story

While Art Fair Tokyo, G-Tokyo and Roppongi Art Night dominate the art coverage at this time of year, we all know the real stars are the beautiful but short-lasting sakura flowers that are blossoming across Tokyo right now. Here are some art events and ...full story

Ever since Art Fair Tokyo moved from its regular autumn timing to spring, various other art events have bloomed around the same cherry-blossom-touched season — with rival art fair G-Tokyo and outdoor art celebration Roppongi Art Night being the most ...full story

NEW YORK — Amidst a busy late winter arts season that saw particularly strong exhibitions focused on postwar Japanese art — the Gutai retrospective at the Guggenheim, for instance, plus solo shows of individual Gutai artists like Takesada Matsutani ...full story

Returning for its eighth year, this gargantuan art show will once again be taking over the entire exhibition hall at Tokyo International Forum from March 22—24. With over 140 galleries due to participate, Art Fair Tokyo is an excellent introduction to ...full story

It's hard to believe, but the inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong is now only about two months away, set to run May 23 through 26. (It feels like just yesterday that the event was announced, though actually it was almost two years ago that Basel bought Art ...full story

March is a busy time of year in the Tokyo art scene. Art Fair Tokyo will once again fill the vast halls of Tokyo International Forum from March 22nd until 24th, while G-Tokyo, the curated, boutique-style art fair, will be held in Tokyo Midtown the same ...full story