I'm a sucker for a souvenir cushion. The second day that I lived in Dubai, I bought a snazzy little gold-threaded number emblazoned with the face of the UAE's fabulously fierce founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, complete with Ray-Ban ...full story

When we last caught up with Jacqueline Hassink, the Dutch photographer had published the sequel to her landmark project on Europe's boardrooms. She had also wrapped another major body of work: 'View, Kyoto', a beguiling photo essay exploring ...full story

This fabulous bird used to rock on the waves in the bays of the biggest cities of the globe like New-York, Tokyo, Osaka and Sao Paolo, in which it hit the headlines and became an artistic city-shaker. The bird creator, Mr. Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch ...full story

So what was the purpose of the Tokyo trip? Kanak Chanpa Chakma opines that through this the Japanese people became more familiar with a wide variety of Bangladeshi art work. In the triennial and biennale, which had taken place earlier, they did expose ...full story

1984) is a lacquer artist, though not one who accords specific primacy to that medium. His fourth show at Kyoto's eN arts in Kyoto, is predominantly photographs. Drawn from the artist's “Connect” series, these images show a combination of his carefully ...full story

Standing in front of the largest work at the Dojima River Biennale, currently showing at the Dojima River Forum in Fukushima, Osaka, is a mesmerizing experience. A 10-meter-tall digital projection of an ethereal cascading waterfall, it glows ...full story

Blair, who is the credited author of the original catalog and the subject of Putney's essay in the new publication, was a pioneering authority on Asian art and culture in a field dominated by men. In 1927 she spent a year studying in Japan at Kyoto ...full story

A model of Ando's 1989 Church of Light in Osaka, one of his most famous works, underscores his commitment to bringing humans together with nature and spirituality, while the model of Row House in Sumiyoshi, one of his earliest concrete buildings, set ...full story

"In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection," however, has everything to do with its namesake -- his favorite painted screens and scrolls and artists, the way he would display them at home, his favorite subjects, especially animals ...full story

During a 1970s visit to a Kyoto shrine garden, “I was stunned by the fact that I felt more at home there — more comfortable and more at home — than any place I had been in my life,” he reports in an interview in a new book, “In the Moment: Japanese ...full story