The young artist first made her splash as part of the Osaka art collective Digmeout. She's done art for music games GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, but her highest profile work to date is lead character and weapon design for Goichi Suda's upcoming ... full story
... KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 (traveled to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido); Eternity's Modernity, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2004 (traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and other ... full story
None of this has to be true, but the tension between the tradition of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the desire to be contemporary is evident in "Kaori Watanabe: Good News of the Morning" at Kyoto's imura art gallery. Watanabe does not consider ... full story
... art: Bachmann Eckenstein, of Basel, Switzerland; Carole Davenport, of New York; Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art, of Kyoto, Japan; London Gallery, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan; Scholten Japanese Art, of New York; and The Art of Japan, of Medina, Washington. ... full story
Miyazawa and Smith will be joined by TOKYOPOP alum Svetlana Chmakova to show off their work — the first time North American art has ever been displayed at the museum. Smith and Miyezawa are both full-time residents of Japan now, and will be part of a ... full story
SINGAPORE.- For its sophomore edition, Art Stage Singapore 2012 presents even more significant and stunning large installation works than before. From intricately detailed sculptures to huge paintings, there is a wide spectrum of awe-inspiring pieces ... full story
The pictorial documents from these lectures were later donated by the Itten family to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Takehisa took on 10 students for his painting course, and his handwritten "The Concept of Japanese Painting" for it was ... full story
The Kyoto International Manga Museum will display works by three North American manga-inspired artists from January 5 to February 5. This is the first time art from North America will feature in an exhibit at the museum. Admission to the "Manga Style ... full story
"Today Kyoto is just a suburb of Osaka," he complained. Steiner has said he considers himself primarily a poet, and many of his works contain a written message, conveyed by the title, some word play or a fragment of a poem. ... full story
Tokyo Art Beat's interns conducted a survey earlier this year of its users, hoping to glean information not just about the people who visit the website or use the apps or Art Map, but also about the Tokyo art world in general. ... full story
