45 photographs taken in & around Tokyo in the 1980's. Closes 8/23. Shopping in Paris - Examples of Parisian fashion from 1850-WWI, as well as American ... full story
It brings together the works of Australian Louisa Bufardeci and Japanese Zon Ito, whose collaboration began at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. ... full story
It's a work of art.” Nomiya is just one part of a yearlong culinary project at the Palais de Tokyo, called “Art Home” (pronounced “Arôme” in French). ... full story
There are also pre-existing online art communities ranging from The Thing, active since 1993, to Saatchi Online, launched in 2006. In Japan, Tokyo Art Beat ... full story
Stephen Mansfield is an author and photojournalist who has been living on the edges of Tokyo since the late 1980s. His book, Tokyo: A Cultural History, ... full story
His art pieces may be colourful and bright but Murakami explains that “I always emphasise that the dark side exists even in cuteness and in the thoughts of peace-addicted people.” A graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, ... full story
That's just one of the many questions inspired by "Lords of the Samurai," a fascinating new exhibit organized by San Francisco's Asian Art Museum and Tokyo's Eisei-Bunko Hosokawa Collection. Occupying the Asian Art Museum's first-floor galleries, ... full story
In Tokyo, you may smoke in bars and restaurants. However, you may not smoke in the open air while walking, and designated street corners with ashtrays are surrounded by people doing exactly that, smoking while not walking. ... full story
In a catalog essay, Takeuchi Jun'ichi, director of the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, from which most of the exhibition comes, recounts an extraordinary incident of the emperor's intervention to end a battle that jeopardized the life of the daimyo, ... full story
