Blum says that exhibitions such as “Tokyo 1950-70: a New Avant-Garde”, which is scheduled to open at New York's Museum of Modern Art on 18 November (until 25 February) and “Gutai: Splendid Playground”, which is due to go on show at the Guggenheim ...full story

The chief curator of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum has been behind some of 2012′s most important exhibitions of Asian art, from “Phantoms of Asia,” an ambitious pan-regional show that recently closed in San Francisco, to the current Gwangju Biennale in ...full story

If you answered that their images can all be found in one form or another in Akihabara's geekier stores you're probably not wrong, but we're actually referring to the fact that all four are currently featured in a public art exhibition in downtown ...full story

The National Museum of Western Art in Taito Ward, Tokyo, offers free admission the museum's permanent exhibition on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, as well as on Culture Day, which is Nov. 3. The current permanent exhibition features ...full story

The exhibition Given Forms--Tatsuno Toeko/Shibata Toshio that runs through Oct. 22 at the National Art Center, Tokyo in Roppongi has an almost storybook beginning that takes us back a little more than four decades. Toshio Shibata and Toeko Tatsuno ...full story

Over half of them are from Tokyo, and they are joined by those from Shanghai, Berlin and Amsterdam, as well as some from New York, Los Angeles, London and elsewhere. With names such as Anders Peterson, Mika Ninagawa and Naoya Hatakeyama ...full story

... a major retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art. Left: Yayoi Kusama photographed with her latest paintings at Musashi University. Credit: Copyright Yayoi Kusama. Image courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.and more »full story

These artists all took part in the residency program of the nonprofit organization Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), supported by the Backers Foundation of Japan. AIT began Tokyo's first recurring residency program eight years ago. The organization was ...full story

Kato's work has been exhibited extensively around Japan, including venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 2007 ...full story

An art festival in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is showcasing pictures drawn by kids living in disaster-stricken areas of the Tohoku region, and the organizers have arranged a colorful way for festival-goers to communicate with the young artists. Running ...full story