In London, the Japanese multimedia artist and designer adds his own touches to important artworks from his country’s history. An installation view of “Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at ...

In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...

Takashi Murakami knows how to work his magic to brighten people’s mood wherever he goes. Take his recent whirlwind trip to London, for example. It was almost impossible to spot a non-smiling face at ...

Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill gallery in London will present ‘Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami’, a new exhibition opening on December 10 where the renowned artist reimagines traditional Japanese ...

Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...

Japanese art has an allure that transcends time, from the resplendent beauty of paintings on golden screens to the elegant lines of ikebana flower arrangements. In modern times, new technologies are ...

Postwar Japanese art has been largely misunderstood and selectively interpreted, according to Alicia Volk, professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland. Monday’s lecture, titled “Art in the ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

This May, we invite Dr. Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art from the Harvard Art Museums where she is responsible for the Japanese collections to Art for Breakfast. The ...