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Chōbunsai Eishi, “Woman Writing a Poem on a Fan” (1789/1801), Weston Collection (all images courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago) Wherever the middle class rises, it brings art down to earth: it’s ...
Imagine having one foot firmly in the modern world and the other planted deep in the realm of folklore and fantasy. A precious pet cat always by your side. Or in your arms... That’s sort of how we'd ...
Japanese artists Iwasa Matabei (1578–1650) and Takashi Murakami, though separated by centuries, converge in a singular, uncanny moment in Gagosian’s latest exhibition: “Japanese Art History à la ...
Everything has its beauty, but not every one sees it. — Confucius. “THERE are cases,” says the critic Moto-ori, “in which a precise reproduction of a thing as it is in nature produces a bad picture ...
These five masterpieces capture the very essence of the transformations that have shaped Japan's visual identity, from the 12th century to the Roaring Twenties, from the illustrated scroll to the ...
This exhibition highlights both iconic and lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture through paintings and ceramics from the Freer Gallery of Art Collection. Learn about Japanese art with a focus on ...
What You Need to Know: Whitestone Gallery’s Hong Kong location recently opened “Tenmyouya Hisashi: Game of Thought,” the Japanese artist’s first solo exhibition in the city. On view through January 25 ...
Setsuko Mitsuhashi, "The Requital by the White Heron" (1973), natural pigments on Japanese paper (all images courtesy Yasumasa Suzuki and the Setsuko Mitsuhashi Memorial Museum) OTSU, Japan — It’s a ...
e-tegami was created in the 1970s by a Japanese calligraphy student who was looking for a less rigid art form to practice.
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