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Iconic Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano brings 50-year retrospective to Milan’s Fabbrica del Vapore
Over a career spanning five decades, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has established himself as a versatile force across ...
From anime to fine art: Japan’s Yoshitaka Amano is celebrated with a major retrospective
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has gained a following as an animator, illustrator, ...
Retro Japan: Tokyo textbook library designed in art deco style stores historical materials
An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials ...
The New York Times18d
Japan’s Long-Governing Party Loses Its Majority
The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...
japannews.yomiuri21d
Japanese Art Historian Shuji Takashina Dies at 92
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his ...
The Washington Post21d
The 20 best art museums in America
Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...
The New York Times22d
Skeletons and Madonnas Lead Mexico’s Graphic Arts Revolution
By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The first thing you learn from “Mexican Prints ... on Japan paper.Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Observer22d
One Fine Show: ‘Hokusai, Waves of Inspiration’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. The only art ...
The Art Newspaper25d
The fair bringing international galleries to Kyoto
and the Asia Pacific sharing booths with 27 Japan-based galleries. These include the Tokyo gallery Mitochu Koeki Co. and the London-based dealer Annely Juda Fine Art, which will bring together ...
GQ25d
The Next Wave of Japanese Menswear Is Here—These Are the Brands to Know
The detailing is subtle, the silhouettes are sophisticated, and they lack the traditional Japanese craft details—like boro cloth and shibori prints—that make brands like Kapital seem so Japanese.
Polygon28d
Learning Japanese with games and anime is easier than ever
Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...
Art Institute of Chicago29d
Transitory Beauty: Japanese Fan Prints
Many of the fan prints in the Art Institute’s collection survive because they were not mounted on bamboo sticks and thus were never used. Japanese print designs also commonly featured depictions of ...