It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, they were ...

Naoshima, Japan — “So this is what it feels like to be a billionaire art collector,” I said to my husband, John Wessel. “I could get used to this.” It was 9 p.m., and we were still glowing from a ...

Approaching Japan's artistically diverse and politically entangled history of art is a formidable task, not least because English-language art history publications on the multifaceted subject are few ...

(CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, ...

It’s only a few weeks into 2023, but Etsu Egami can already confirm that it has been a great year. The 28-year-old artist just returned home to Chiba, Japan, after her sold-out solo exhibition ...

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 ...

Japanese art has an allure that transcends time, from the resplendent beauty of paintings on golden screens to the elegant lines of ikebana flower arrangements. In modern times, new technologies are ...

In Japan, time is not always conceived of in a linear fashion, as it often is in the West. Past, present and future are not distinct realms, and they can instead overlap and shift. This conception of ...

A VERY interesting essay upon the Japanese art collections in the National Library was read by Mr. Edward Strange at a meeting of the Japan Society held last year in London. Mr. Strange proved his ...

(CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, ...