A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio ...

Diplomat and abstract sand artist Takashi Hattori and his work titled ...

Fairgoers at Tokyo Gendai in 2024. Courtesy of Tokyo Gendai. While South Korea’s art scene has been stealing the spotlight in recent years, Japan is staging a quiet yet deliberate comeback.

Japan is having a moment. Michelle Ogundehin considers what the West can learn from the country's approach to design and culture. For many in the English-speaking world – particularly those with an ...

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The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

Odawara, Japan: You walk along a level daylight-filled corridor, some 300 feet long, one side lined with glass, the other with volcanic stones pockmarked by fossilized insects. Nearing the end, as ...

The quiet summer streets of Hiroshima are once again stirring with the uneasy winds of memory. With the approach of August ...

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 ...

Art History Take a mix of core and optional course units. The objective is to provide you with a deeper understanding of theories and approaches in the study of art history, and a broad-based ...