Public art these days doesn't get much better than Koki Tanaka's "A painting to public," which is on view as part of the Tokyo-born, LA-based artist's debut show at Chinatown's The Box. Conceptually the work is simplicity itself, although it took a bit ...full story

The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo opens its exhibition featuring works by the late avant-garde artist Taro Okamoto to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. It will be the museum's first retrospective art show focused on the artist. ...full story

At the Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, the exhibition "Tsutsumu--Traditional Japanese Packaging," which runs through April 3, showcases about 400 packages collected by renowned graphic designer Hideyuki Oka (1905-1995). Oka, fascinated by the beauty of ...full story

He was born in 1928 in Tokyo and grew up in Takada, a small town in the snow country of Niigata. He was a business student in 1943 when the Japanese wartime government conscripted high school students into war service. Considered the runt of his class, ...full story

... Taro: The 100th Anniversary of His Birth," a retrospective of Okamoto's work featuring about 130 of the artist's paintings, sculptures, photographs and industrial designs, will be held March 8 to May 8 at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. ...full story

In a special symposium, "How is the World Engaging with Contemporary Asian Art ?," at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo on Feb. 17, directors of a number of the world's most renowned art museums explained, through short individual presentations and a ...full story

Frontline Tokyo is over, but there are still some exhibitions at private galleries there.) Meanwhile, in the modern Roppongi district, there's the upscale G-Tokyo Art Fair at the Mori Arts Center as well as the joint graduation exhibition of five Art ...full story

... and as a protest of the Tokyo ordinance, 10 of the country's largest manga publishers have agreed to boycott the Tokyo International Anime Fair which will take place in March. As The New York Times noted in a recent article, erotic art has a long ...full story

The 34-year-old takes a quick breather to chat with us before preparing to hit the road again - this time to Venice where he'll be representing Singapore at the Venice Biennale in June, and to Tokyo for his solo exhibition at Mori Art Museum in ...full story

"The theme is simple, Tokyo Frontline is designed to cover aspects of contemporary art that have been neglected by existing Japanese art fairs." Japanese events, such as Tokyo Art Fair, says Goto, have similarities to international art fairs, ...full story