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
Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has revealed the names of the 13 artists selected to participate in the 2014 edition of the highly anticipated and closely analyzed “Primavera” exhibition for young Australian artists under the age of 35 ...full story
On May 23, Australia's most populous city flipped the switch on Vivid Sydney, an interactive light show that will illuminate buildings and landmarks throughout Sydney through June 9. The annual festival, now in its sixth year, combines lighted ...full story
For many, inviting friends around to one's Bangkok abode can often lead to a rather cramped, standing-room-only affair, with guests knocking elbows while feigning interest in the drab surroundings that may be almost identical to their own. Joe Delaney ...full story
Chief Curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, he was also a founding Director of Rooseum — Centre for Contemporary Art in Sweden, as well as Director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. After a period spent as the first Director ... A ...full story
Two major names in the Indonesian art scene, F.X. Harsono and Tintin Wulia, are featured in “Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction,” an exhibition under way at Hong Kong's presitigous Osage Art Foundation and the City University of Hong Kong until ...full story
Japanese art is very distinctive and contrasts greatly with classical European art and clearly religious differences, environmental factors, distance, limited social interaction between both poles and other important factors is behind this. Ike No ...full story
A spokeswoman for the National Art School said the fine arts institute had occupied the state government-owned site, in various forms, since 1922, when the jail became the East Sydney Tech, but ''there are no plans to establish another school on the ...full story
On the other side of Circular Quay, artist Jess Johnson's Gamma World lit up the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, where hypnotic images inspired by cosmology and science fiction were projected in an eight-minute loop, recalling the projections ...full story