It's the first of the series to feature a widely accepted master of his form (Rickey's work is in museums around the world, including the Getty, the Guggenheim, Tokyo's Hara, the National Gallery of Art, and the Tate Gallery). ... full story
... expertise who influenced her in this direction, but the most important figure was Okakura Kakuzo, a former head of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, who had come to Boston to advise the Museum of Fine Arts, where he later became curator of Asian art. ... full story
The Cultural Affairs Agency has decided to build a pop-art center in Tokyo aimed at promoting animated films, "manga" and game software, agency officials said Sunday. The officials said they hope the facility, expected to open in two to three years, ... full story
By Ho Yi Collecting art may seem like an unaffordable luxury for the average office worker. But for the organizers of Young Art Taipei 2009, buying a piece of art should and can be made as easy as purchasing a laptop computer. ... full story
As much performance art as a movie, "Merde" offers the funniest urban rampage since Bong's The Host. Bong's own "Shaking Tokyo" is a quieter monster movie that addresses hikikomori, a specifically Japanese form of agoraphobia in which a young person ... full story
In fact, the Price collection, seen in “The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615-1868” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last year, inspired Bowers President Peter Keller to travel to Japan to see the Tokyo National Museum's samurai collection ... full story
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games, an exhibition originally organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be installed at the Japan Society.While not as extensive as Vancouver's original exhibition, at the New York show you'll find a ... full story
Paik graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956, and then traveled to Germany to pursue his interest in avant-garde music, composition and performance. There he met John Cage and George Maciunas and became a member of the neo-dada Fluxus movement. ... full story
BY DONNA BUNCE, Register Columnist The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art opened its stunning new exhibition from the Tokyo National Museum, "Art of the Samurai," with a first-rate gala for 250 guests on April 18 at the Santa Ana-based museum. ... full story
His work is in the collections of the MFAH, MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Princeton University Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Kochi Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Art, Tokyo. ... full story
