NEW YORK—Even the hustle and bustle of crowds at The Metropolitan Museum of Art recedes into the calm gravitational pull of the Birds in the Art of Japan exhibition that just opened at The Sackler Wing Galleries for the Arts of Japan. ... two early ...full story

An array of curators, critics and academics in the 20th century worked to codify a tidy, sequential history of that transformative era's art, overlooking, ignoring and marginalizing scores of artists whose work didn't fit their narrative. A little more ...full story

On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome, the Japan Foundation, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, and the Museum of Modern Art of Kyoto have organised a major exhibition devoted to Japanese art from the ...full story

Some venues, like the Social Kitchen in Kyoto, are reminiscent of projects in other "off center" cities like Milwaukee, she says. Are there conditions in these off-center locales that are conducive to hybrid art? This is something she's pondering ...full story

This one has ties to the Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as one of the world's great conceptual thinkers. A wave of 25 artists from Osaka, Japan, will descend on the city next week with new ideas about what art is. The artists are inheritors of ...full story

He is recounting a day spent in Kyoto with his fellow minimalist pioneer Sol Lewitt some 40 years ago. They roamed from temple to temple and listened to monks explain the symbolism of each themed garden, before coming to a ... just look at it,” says ...full story

Osaka.com has been developed by CitiesPlanet.com, the largest network of City.com brands in the industry along with Allan Hsu a Japan-fanatic who has a passion for everything Japan, especially Osaka. Osaka.com CEO Allan Hsu stated “It has been a great ...full story

The first thing about this book is: the art is great. Francois Schuiten & Benoit Peeters, authors of the steampunk-ish "Cities of the Fantastic" series, draw future Osaka as a science fiction paradise. In their Osaka 2034, gardens, restaurants (with ...full story

Kyoto - The Temple of Sanjusangen-do located in Kyoto, Japan, housing over 1000 wood-carved, gold-leaf-covered, statues of religious figures dating from the Thirteen Century, is one of the most outstanding cultural treasures of Japanese Buddhism.full story

OSAKA--A retrospective exhibition of the Gutai avant-garde art movement, which originated in the Kansai region after World War II, will be held at New York's Guggenheim Museum from Feb. 15 to May 8. The exhibition, titled Gutai: Splendid Playground ...full story