Adrian Hamilton is gripped by an enigma at the Tokyo National Museum Get all the information you need about artists, art events, auctions and much more. To walk into a room of half-length actor portraits by the 18th-century Japanese woodblock artist, ...full story

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, pp.3-6. Ikeda, Asato (2010): Twentieth Century Japanese Art and the Wartime State: Reassessing the Art of Ogawara Shū and Fujita Tsuguharu. In: The Asia-Pacific Journal 43, 2, 10 (October 25), link. ...full story

She has had solo shows at numerous institutions including Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2003; the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, in 2006; the Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum ...full story

The internationally renowned print artist Shiko Munakata and the Nihonga painter and long-time president of the National University of the Arts, Tokyo, Ikuo Hirayama, are among the most prominent. In this sense, Tezuka is by no means the exception in ...full story

He first lived in Osaka and worked as a translator for Kansai Art Beat. Arriving in Tokyo in 2008, when he is not exploring art galleries he can often be found in the city's theatres. He works as a translator, editor and market researcher, ...full story

The modern, brightly lit nighttime skylines of Hong Kong and Tokyo, which he said are more advanced than the US in terms of lighting, also inspired him. When experimenting with the design of the GloFrame, Bruckman first built a frame that lights up ...full story

But self-consciousness never hinders Miss Hayashi's art. After all, her photos are meant to portray being out of the norm. 'We all are surrounded by social stress as we are bound by the force of the earth's gravity,' she explains. ...full story

Words like stunning and near-overwhelming have been used to describe the colorful, esoteric works of Futura, Smear, Chaz Bojorquez and dozens of other seminal street scribblers covering the walls of the Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo campus. ...full story

Both the immensity and diversity of that output were on display in "Shinro Ohtake Zen-kei," Ohtake's high-profile 2006 retrospective, which colonized the entire Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo — and at which the audience presumably remained fully ...full story

You would be forgiven for thinking that Tokyo's art scene is only accessible to those with large wallets and gold cards. However, the Tokyo Art & Antiques festival — for a few days at least -- hopes to make the city's art scene ...full story