That's just one of the many questions inspired by "Lords of the Samurai," a fascinating new exhibit organized by San Francisco's Asian Art Museum and Tokyo's Eisei-Bunko Hosokawa Collection. Occupying the Asian Art Museum's first-floor galleries, ...full story

In Tokyo, you may smoke in bars and restaurants. However, you may not smoke in the open air while walking, and designated street corners with ashtrays are surrounded by people doing exactly that, smoking while not walking. ...full story

In a catalog essay, Takeuchi Jun'ichi, director of the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, from which most of the exhibition comes, recounts an extraordinary incident of the emperor's intervention to end a battle that jeopardized the life of the daimyo, ...full story

" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;">Native American photographer captures tourist kitschAugusta ChronicleThe second part will be in April 2010 at the National Art Center in Tokyo. Tatiana Klacsmann's work is featured in a group show at Estel Gallery in ...full story

" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;">The Japan TimesFragrant fashions, high-brow specs, Vogue in 3-D, and Tokyo's ownThe Japan TimesThis month's thfull story

" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;">Business GazettePulse: Building a better Pyramid: Fundraiser focuses on street artBusiness Gazette..full story

Also of note is the exhibition of Nauman's "Untitled 1970/2009," which combines recorded performance art from the Tokyo Biennial of 1970 and recent footage that was recorded in Italy. As the year's chosen US representative to the Venice Biennale, ...full story

“Art will range from traditional to modern,” Yates said, “and many of the artists attending and exhibiting their art flew to Knoxville from Tokyo earlier this week.” No need to worry about a language barrier, though, as Yates assured that translators ...full story

... they are now proud to shorten the distance between the artist and the collector by bringing up-coming as well as internationally acclaimed artists to the Roppongi area of Tokyo. Through educational art lectures and artist talks with the patrons, ...full story

"ALB to NRT," his current exhibition at the University of Rochester's Art and Music Library gallery, takes its name from the airport codes of Albany and Tokyo (views of both are featured), and offers us a look at several densely populated metropolises ...full story