In fact, the Price collection, seen in “The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615-1868” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last year, inspired Bowers President Peter Keller to travel to Japan to see the Tokyo National Museum's samurai collection ...full story
His work is in the collections of the MFAH, MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Princeton University Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Kochi Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Art, Tokyo. ...full story
The massive amount of data accumulated from various sources is used to compose countless numbers and geometric diagrams, which are then projected onto a gallery wall at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) that is 24 meters in width and six meters ...full story
BY DONNA BUNCE, Register Columnist The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art opened its stunning new exhibition from the Tokyo National Museum, "Art of the Samurai," with a first-rate gala for 250 guests on April 18 at the Santa Ana-based museum. ...full story
The driver of Murakami's seven-seat Tokyo Toyota is “a cool dude in a fedora and vintage fifties glasses”. It is among the most anomalous aspects of the contemporary art scene that the more it has prospered lately, the more outrageous has been the ...full story
We're always super excited to see Tokyo Art Beat's new limited edition tees, and this spring is no different. As usual, Tokyo Art Beat, the nonprofit website covering art events, reviews and creative jobs in the Japanese capital put out two tees with ...full story
By Marie Wood When Kaeko Leitch was a young girl growing up in the suburbs of Tokyo, she used to explore the woods and bring home broken things. She would take them apart and try to fix them. “I didn't have dolls. I always had tractors and trains. ...full story
The Chanel mobile museum has traveled to Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Moscow and Paris. In 2004, the European-based Public Art Lab invited artists to create their vision of a mobile museum. Using a construction kit consisting of modular recycled PVC ...full story
Itchiku Kubota, the creator of the Kimona artwork, was born in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan in 1917. He was apprenticed at the age of 14, learning the art and craft of Japanese kimono textile art at the studio of a master of the yuzen dyeing technique, ...full story
The exhibition opened Thursday at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. Originally titled ``Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art,'' the exhibition first opened at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo last November. ...full story