And you thought dirty water was just for hot dogs. A Williamsburg painter who goes by the name of Sto Len is making a practice out of combining the seriousness of ancient Japanese art with the ...
In the Japanese Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a retrospective of Munakata Shiko (1903-1975) surveys an unusual career characterized by a mighty struggle to invest new life into a ...
During the Edo period (1603-1868), the government of Japan ruled its people through a strictly enforced social hierarchy. Within this structure, most forms of self-expression were banned entirely or ...
"Each block is made from 100 year old mountain cherry." This isn't a new video to enjoy, but it's certainly worth watching anyway and might inspire artistic minds. Thanks to recent "unintentional ASMR ...
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 ...
TETSUYA Noda, considered by some as “the best printmaker in contemporary Japan,” unwittingly created in the 1960s the counterpart of today’s social-media sites like Facebook and Instagram.
When the Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world, began to appear in Europe early in the 19th century, they were not widely circulated. By the time Japan's ...
Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...
Without the Japanese printmaker Hokusai, Impressionism might never have happened. Jason Farago examines the moment when European art started turning Japanese. In the beginning was the wave. The blue ...
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