Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) exemplifies the modern Japanese painter. Contemporaries praised his avant-garde works, yet Tessai created his nonconformist paintings in a traditional way, basing them on ...
Members of the media can contact Jennifer Mitchell at mitchellja@si.edu for more information, or to schedule a time to speak with the curator and tour the exhibition. Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) ...
THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...
LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2026 — Curator, dealer, and advisor Jeffrey Deitch and LACMA Associate Curator of Japanese Art Rika Hiro trace the dissemination of postwar and contemporary Japanese art in ...
Kakuko Ishii, Japanese Paper Strings Musubu R, 2012, Washi paper and pigment, Image courtesy of the artist, © Kakuko Ishii National Cinema Day: $4 movie tickets on ...
Pacifico Yokohama may experience some déjà vu when the inaugural Tokyo Gendai (July 7–9) arrives this week. The same venue also hosted the first Art Fair Tokyo back in 1992. While the Japanese art ...
South Korea's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art exhibition traces 80 years of Korean-Japanese artistic exchange through Paik, Lee Bul and others.
The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...
In June, when introducing two special exhibitions to the crowd gathered for an opening reception, Dayton Art Institute Asian Art Curator Peter Doebler asked the audience to bring to mind a McDonald’s ...