In 1968, I was one of the last guests in Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, made famous by being among the only structures to withstand the ravages of Tokyo's great 1923 Kanto earthquake. Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, five other representatives of the ...full story

Robert Reed / Special to The Daily Yomiuri. About three years ago, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum began coordinating a grand-scale exhibition so it could reopen in style after the planned renovations to its building in Ueno in 2012 were completed.full story

Wedged behind the neon towers of Shinjuku, Tokyo's most infamous entertainment district, is a network of ramshackle lanes with shoebox-size bars packed two or three storeys high, a relic of pre-war Tokyo that has somehow survived the city's relentless ...full story

Those selecting the works were: guest selectors Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Franklin Sirmans, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA joined by Tate curators Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art; Frances ...full story

LONDON (Reuters) - A toy gun-wielding child, New York high society at play and bored Tokyo commuters are just a few of the startling images at a new Tate Modern exhibition exploring the relationship between two of the 20th century's leading street-life ...full story

In the Fifties, Kazuo Shiraga was famous for painting images with his feet until they resembled multi-colored Rorschach tests. Back then people might have assumed he was crazy but he was not just playing around. He was a member of the Gutai, an artist ...full story

I think it's important for all of us to try to find the truth and where the truth is,” said curator Mami Kataoka of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, who organized the exhibit, reported the AP. “It's very difficult to find the truth, particularly in China.” The ...full story

A photography exhibition featuring works by Kishin Shinoyama, who has spent his career on the cutting edge of photography, recently opened at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. THE PEOPLE by KISHIN, which focuses on "the power ...full story

Blum & Poe announced the establishment of an overseas office in Asia. Tokyo was selected as the base of operations given their long-standing relationship with Japan and Japanese artists and the fact that the city continues to be a hub for Asian art in ...full story

Los Angeles art gallery Blum & Poe is opening an office in Tokyo to strengthen its ties with Asian artists, the gallery said this week. Ashley Rawlings, a former managing editor at ArtAsiaPacific, has been named director of the office. Blum & Poe ...full story