"Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art," until Sept. 5, 10 am-6 pm (until 8 pm on Fridays) at The National Art Center, Tokyo, directly connected to Nogizaka subway station, or a 5-minute walk from Roppongi ...full story

Magazines such as Art News spread new versions of abstraction, so that it could be copied from Tokyo to Warsaw. I remember a Toronto art dealer, not known for foolishness, who predicted that painting would probably remain purely abstract for a thousand ...full story

Zabrin, of north suburban Northbrook, Ill., was a member of a ring that earned millions of dollars selling phony art online and through tony galleries in Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona -- and Chicago's Michigan Avenue -- over more than two decades. ...full story

Back in the early 1990s, Singaporean artist Lee Wen found himself watching a video art piece at the Tokyo Museum Of Photography. Created by a respected Japanese artist associated with the '60s experimental group Fluxus, Lee described it ...full story

This all raises the question of why Japanese art galleries need this exposure in Hong Kong. It could be, said Yukihiko Tabata of Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, that there is a shortage of local collectors in Japan and a general lack of interest in contemporary ...full story

In doing so, the audience becomes a part of his art. The Tokyo-born Yamaguchi lives and works as a contemporary artist in the Japanese capital. He has a Master of Art in oil painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. ...full story

An advisory body to UNESCO has counseled against registering 19 buildings designed by French architect Le Corbusier, including the National Museum of Western Art in Taito Ward, Tokyo, as world cultural heritage sites, it has been learned. ...full story

Since opening in May last year, Gallery Mozart has held several exhibitions of Ainu crafts--a rather rare theme for privately owned art galleries in central Tokyo. From Monday, it will showcase items created by two Ainu artists based in Biratoricho, ...full story

AFP Photo TOKYO:A Tokyo-based art collective has admitted doctoring a mural by the late master Taro Okamoto about the horrors of a nuclear explosion with an image of the crippled Fukushima plant, reports said Thursday. ...full story

MARIO RITTER: Nam June Paik was born in Korea in nineteen thirty-two. His family fled their country during the Korean War and moved first to Hong Kong, then to Japan. In college, Mr. Paik studied art and music history at the University of Tokyo. ...full story