The renowned Dutch artist best known for his giant rubber ducky in Hong Kong, will create an extraordinary new sculpture to be situated in the River Thames at Nine Elms on the South Bank, central London's newest district. The piece is commissioned by ...full story

At “Balthus” at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, graphic Expressionism is evident in “Balthus and Mitsou” (1916), a series of ink drawings about the artist's travels with a cat. These were published in 1921 by his mother's lover, the German poet ...full story

The idea of converting data into a sensory experience is a recurring feature of “Mission [Space × Art]“; black-and-white images and sculptures by Kohei Nawa are formed by the action of gravity on paint and an earth-bound work by Takuro Osaka is a grid ...full story

The Japan Culture Center of Western New York, in partnership with the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, is proud to announce a new exhibition showcasing the work of Sarah Brayer, a Rochester-born artist living in Kyoto. Since the 1980s ...full story

The two-story home is located in the Gion neighborhood in Kyoto, Japan, a region notable for origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The F-House, however, was not inspired by the papercraft artform, but, rather, the architect folded in ...full story

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Inamori Foundation today announced the 30th annual Kyoto Prize laureates: two pioneering researchers from the U.S. and one Japanese artist. Dr. Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer and Institute Professor at ...full story

Art Osaka started in 2002 by a group of local galleries in Osaka to showcase the forefront of Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe etc.) art scene. The fair is the oldest contemporary art fair in Japan and distinguished from other fairs in the following manners ...full story

The art is good, but the museum's handling of it is conceptually, and indescribably, bizarre. “Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Art” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, runs till Sept. 15; open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Fri ...full story

KYOTO – Inuki Tachihara, a 62-year-old self-taught woodblock artist, has devoted half his life to reviving the lost beauty of ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Edo Period (1603-1867) by printing them exactly as they would have been made then, with their ...full story

Hiromi Moneyhun from Jacksonville is a paper-cut artist from Kyoto, Japan. Her three dimensional works combine traditional Japanese visual art forms with the “super- modernity” now found in Japan's largest cities. She has been most influenced by Edo ...full story