The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, has just one Aida, and the five national art museums have none. The story is similar with other 40-something artists such as Akira Yamaguchi, Hisashi Tenmyouya and Tsuyoshi Ozawa. Each has been given large-scale, ...full story

The composer and artist has created sound sculptures in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo, as well as in New York, Seattle and San Francisco, where he resides. Fontana graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1970 from the New School for ...full story

His conservative government has earmarked 11.7 billion yen ($118 million) for a museum on Japanese cartoon art and pop culture to be built in Tokyo that one English-language daily has dubbed the "anime shrine." "It will be a center that allows visitors ...full story

It's the first of the series to feature a widely accepted master of his form (Rickey's work is in museums around the world, including the Getty, the Guggenheim, Tokyo's Hara, the National Gallery of Art, and the Tate Gallery). ...full story

... expertise who influenced her in this direction, but the most important figure was Okakura Kakuzo, a former head of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, who had come to Boston to advise the Museum of Fine Arts, where he later became curator of Asian art. ...full story

The Cultural Affairs Agency has decided to build a pop-art center in Tokyo aimed at promoting animated films, "manga" and game software, agency officials said Sunday. The officials said they hope the facility, expected to open in two to three years, ...full story

By Ho Yi Collecting art may seem like an unaffordable luxury for the average office worker. But for the organizers of Young Art Taipei 2009, buying a piece of art should and can be made as easy as purchasing a laptop computer. ...full story

As much performance art as a movie, "Merde" offers the funniest urban rampage since Bong's The Host. Bong's own "Shaking Tokyo" is a quieter monster movie that addresses hikikomori, a specifically Japanese form of agoraphobia in which a young person ...full story

Paik graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956, and then traveled to Germany to pursue his interest in avant-garde music, composition and performance. There he met John Cage and George Maciunas and became a member of the neo-dada Fluxus movement. ...full story

The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games, an exhibition originally organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be installed at the Japan Society.While not as extensive as Vancouver's original exhibition, at the New York show you'll find a ...full story