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 ...

Japan’s art market has outperformed the global industry over the past five years, according to a new report from art economist Clare McAndrew. While global sales ticked up just 1 percent from 2019 to ...

Picasso and Paul Smith, Edo masterpieces, young British artists and sexy robots – Tokyo’s art slate looks packed this year ...

Since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, Japan has indeed attracted a great deal of international attention. The number of international travelers to Japan reached 3.3 million in July, a 41.9-percent ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

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 ...

While South Korea’s art scene has been stealing the spotlight in recent years, Japan is staging a quiet yet deliberate comeback. A recently published study by Dr. Clare McAndrew (the brains behind the ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has hiked entry fees for people from outside Europe. Japan is now considering a similar ...

Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga ...

Installation view of Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) Feelings of impending doom come in cycles in human history, and it’s always ...

Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of its flagship Tokyo store by releasing a new range of Art Canvas Esquires, which brings a trio of iconic Japanese landscape prints to an ...