Hara, who lives outside Tokyo, staged the pictures in an Art Nouveau-style medical clinic built in the 1920s, lending the scenes a sense of temporal remove. The palpable, luminous atmosphere within (created with the help of a fog machine) further ...full story

(Jan Woitas/AFP/Getty Images) Mao Sugiyama has taken performance art to a whole new level. Sugiyama identifies as an asexual and used the exhibition to show that he does not affiliate with either gender, according to the Huffington Post.and more »full story

In general however, she liked the fair, as “the art pieces are of very high quality.” Catarina, an Italian woman, is an artist working in Tokyo. She came to the fair because she wants to “understand what is happening in Asia.Time for schools to get into artHong Kong Standardfull story

It is also the first time that a high-profile figure in the art world — Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo — will put together large-scale installations. The 10 works, to be shown on plots around the fair, ...full story

Installation view with Ai Weiwei at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2009. Ai Weiwei, "Kippe," 2006. Writes Midgette: “Ai's objects may be important, but the creative act is distanced from its physical realization: He comes up with the idea and lets it play ...full story

The show will mark the release of his third solo album, "Intimable," which was recorded in Tokyo just before the Great East Japan Earthquake. According to Skepper, the inspiration for his music comes mostly from architecture and nature, but this album ...full story

In a treat for those who love museums, many Japanese antiques exported to the United States decades ago have returned for the exhibition Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the Tokyo National Museum.full story

By DANIELLE DEMETRIOU From an industrial warehouse in Tokyo to a former dye factory in Kyoto, the exhibition spaces currently operated by the respected gallerist Tomio Koyama are often as arresting as the artworks on display. So it is perhaps initially ...full story

The first ever solo exhibition by an Omani artist in Japan opened on Monday at the sultanate's embassy in Tokyo under the auspices of Princess Takamado. On display at the show, titled Communique Celestial and organised to mark the 40 th anniversary of ...full story

His works are included in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University, Lincoln Center in New York, The Shanghai Art Museum, The Soyanzi Art Museum in Tokyo, The Peace Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, and the sacred ...full story