‘The art world has undeniably influenced the fashion world,' says the designer Alexander Brenninkmeijer, who collaborated with the artist Thomas Bayrle on a tea cup design. Keita Yasukawa for The National At a central Tokyo art gallery, ...full story

The park also sports some indoor charms, namely its many art, history and science museums. One, the Tokyo National Museum, is Japan's oldest and boasts the largest collection of Japanese art in the world. Many beautiful temples and shrines also are ...full story

As well as being awarded a £5000 participation fee, the winning artist will be given the opportunity for a solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. The diversity in the work chosen, as well as the artists originating from different areas ...full story

By ROBBIE SWINNERTON It's always a pleasure to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) out in Koto Ward. The surrounding park is calm, the architecture of the museum exemplary, and the exhibitions invariably well curated. ...full story

His work has been the subject of several retrospectives in Denmark and abroad, most recently Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, held at the Royal Academy and the Museum of Western Art, Tokyo in 2008.full story

When Tokyo-based Art Restoration Studio 21 analyzed the painting with infrared photography in March this year, Bubnova's signature appeared in Russian. After the painting is restored, it is due to be put on display in June in a hall at Sendai Orthodox ...full story

... his likeness continue to sell well in Tokyo's "otaku" (geek) district of Akihabara. The cultural affairs agency has reportedly requested 12 billion yen to create a national centre for media art that would promote Japanese pop culture overseas. ...full story

The images in greatest popular demand dealt with the Kabuki theater, life in the red light district of Edo, now Tokyo, or low-brow novels, and the illustrations could easily be interpreted as a metaphorical critique of the prevalent political and ...full story

The world of Japanese cartoons is to be immortalised in a £80 million (11.7 billion yen) national "anime shrine" to be built in Tokyo. By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo Soaring international popularity for contemporary Japaneses sub cultures such as anime ...full story

The Cultural Affairs Agency wants nearly 12 billion yen to build a "National Comprehensive Centre for Media Art" that would showcase contemporary Japanese culture such as manga, anime and video games, the Asahi newspaper reported. ...full story