During Phillips London’s evening sale just weeks ago, bidders located in Asia continued to vigorously compete for works by ultra-contemporary artists. But rather than the usual suspects from Hong Kong ...

Japan’s art market has outperformed the global industry over the past five years, according to a new report from art economist Clare McAndrew. While global sales ticked up just 1 percent from 2019 to ...

Known as the “Art Island” in Kagawa Prefecture, Naoshima is home to open-air exhibits that appear on the shore, like Yayoi Kusama’s iconic black-dotted yellow pumpkin. Exploring galleries and museums ...

A VERY interesting essay upon the Japanese art collections in the National Library was read by Mr. Edward Strange at a meeting of the Japan Society held last year in London. Mr. Strange proved his ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) -Vibrant artwork, traditional Japanese attire, and immersive, hands-on experiences filled the Plains Art Museum this afternoon. It’s day one of the three-day Japan Art ...

Shigesato Itoi and Hobonichi will produce and sell framed art based on EarthBound pixel maps in Japan. The company will open pre-orders for a limited time in March 2022. The framed art of EarthBound ...

Even the briefest glance at Japanese art over the centuries establishes it as an entirely different tradition than that of the West. In some sense that is an intuitive, even obvious statement. The ...

Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga ...

A COSMONAUT SAT for most of the winter on a platform at Kazusa-Murakami station in Chiba, a rural Japanese prefecture next to Tokyo. As they waited for trains, local grandmothers would chat with the ...