A print of the "Great Wave" by Hokusai sold for a record-breaking $2.8m at Christie’s during the series of exhibitions and auctions

Second edition comes as Tokyo attempts to regain its lost status as an international art hub amid a booming contemporary market and a forthcoming fair

Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

After surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child, Miyake turned to clothes as a modern, optimistic form of creativity, and revived the use of pleats to create wearable, free-flowing, unisex clothes

A show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays more than 120 Japanese textiles made from the stuff of nature

The exhibition is due to open at Tokyo's National Art Center in March

Contemporary explorations of femininity that extend beyond the male gaze headline the fair’s latest edition

Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903, and is known only from a small black-and-white photograph

Vincent was fascinated by his Australian colleague’s links with Japan—and together they painted landscapes in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise

Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?

In everything he made—clothes, spectacles inspired by his trademark round lenses, home furnishings, parfumerie—Takada's love of fine art remained close at hand

“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker

Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces

Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains

Shanghai's Power Station of Art and Shanghai Museum welcomed visitors today after China's tough measures helped curb the spread of the disease

Former Bridgestone Museum of Art will have new focus on creativity through the ages after a three-year renovation

Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art is planning to restage the exhibition, which was partly closed due to violent threats over the inclusion of a 'comfort woman' statue

The Praemium Imperiale Award will be presented in Tokyo in October

The portrait was allegedly stolen from the home of a menswear magnate in 1984

Cuban activist Tania Bruguera closes down her exhibit while other artists reconfigure works to reflect the controversy

Triennial features more than 200 sculptures and installations scattered across a dozen islands in the region

More than 70 participants including Candice Breitz and Tania Bruguera have signed a statement demanding reopening of Aichi Triennale's exhibition

Does the imperial collection really include a mirror of wisdom, a sword of valour, and a jewel of benevolence gifted from the gods?

We talk about Manga, the subject of the British Museum's huge new show, and we explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Chinese new media artist Cheng Ran and US artist Cameron Rowland receive $100,000 Nomura Emerging Artist Awards with world’s biggest art prize to be announced in October

National Gallery’s Sunflowers heads to Japan where it is likely to be seen by around a million people

Exhibition with 60 other loans from the museum will help celebrate the Tokyo Olympics in 2020