Earlier this month, makeup and prosthetics artist Kazu Hiro won an Academy Award for his work on the movie “Bombshell.”
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Recent exhibitions in Madrid, Chicago and Taiwan demonstrate the popularity and impact of Japanese modern artist Tetsuya Ishida. Before his untimely passing in 2005, Ishida employed darkly powerful imagery and bleak humor to explore contemporary alienation in Japanese society.
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New exhibitions of woodblock prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi open this month and next at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dayton Art Institute and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
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Moss is an integral feature in many Japanese gardens, and a plant that carries special meaning and significance. In Japanese culture, moss has represented concepts of beauty, simplicity, humility and refinement, as well as the aesthetics of wabi and sabi — transience and imperfection.
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Tamayo Samejima and Masanobu Ota are among the artists who practice and preserve traditional methods of painting and dyeing kimonos.
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New exhibitions at three U.S. museums feature rarely-seen works of Japanese art, while a previously unknown work by a Japanese master artist will soon be exhibited in Kyoto.
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Origami is in the news – for its technological implications, and as a focus of exhibitions and installations across the United States.
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New exhibits and articles celebrate the work of Japanese photographers across the decades.
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A preview of upcoming Japanese cultural programs across the United States, including exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institute's Freer Gallery; and performances in Washington, D.C., New Haven and Ann Arbor.
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A preview of ten new Japanese cultural programs from across the United States, including exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute and the Japan Information and Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Japan Society in New York City and Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo.
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New York's Japan Society encourages cultural exchange and understanding between Japan and the United States through a series of performances, lectures, film screenings and exhibitions.
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A trio of insightful new exhibits at American museums explore elements of Japan’s cultural transformations from the Edo era through the Meiji restoration and beyond.
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