Japanese art
Five museum shows to see in Chicago this spring
From a retrospective of Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg to a group show of Native American photography and video
Blum Gallery looks back on three decades of bringing Japanese contemporary art to the US
The gallery’s 30th-anniversary show chronicles the Japanese art movements it has had a hand in popularising across the Pacific
New book explores work of underrepresented abstract artist who married portrait with place
Miyoko Ito’s intriguing merger of internal and external space gets proper recognition and a fresh look in this visual feast
Art or design? Art Week Tokyo exhibition relooks at the role of craft in post-war Japanese art
Curator Kenjiro Hosaka on five highlights from his AWT Focus exhibition, which brings together over 100 works from participating galleries
Five essential exhibitions to visit during Art Week Tokyo
Art Week Tokyo makes it easy to explore the city's many museum and gallery exhibitions. Our writers pick out some of the highlights to see this autumn
Major Daido Moriyama retrospective in London highlights his early, influential experiments
The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition explores how the artist railed against tradition as post-war Japan turned its focus towards the West
Takashi Murakami: the pop artist on cartoons, capitalism and what he learnt from Star Wars
The Japanese artist, whose latest show opens in San Francisco this month, explains the connection between his colourful aesthetic and darker influences, including natural disasters and the pandemic
Killer Queue: Freddie Mercury fans go Ga Ga and line up round the block for Sotheby’s show
The masses are being drawn in by the chance to see objects both fine and personal
Typhoon-battered Yayoi Kusama pumpkin goes back on display in Japan
Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year
From Dora Maar's photograph of Picasso to Chagall's depiction of wedded bliss: our pick of the highlights from June's sales
Plus, a contemporary woven Japanese basket and a colourful work on paper by Kirchner
Paris Photo proves that photography is now a woman’s game
Contemporary explorations of femininity that extend beyond the male gaze headline the fair’s latest edition
Gauguin and Van Gogh: their shared love of Japan revealed
“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker
Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top
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.
The all-too-human Shinto gods descending on Cleveland
Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art aims to bring the Japanese belief system and its often quarrelsome deities vividly to life
Boston College mascot identified as Meiji bronze
The monumental bronze eagle was donated in 1954 by a gardener who inherited it from a diplomat and collector
Hokusai’s late style comes into view at the British Museum
Looking beyond his iconic Great Wave at treasures from the museum's collection and from around the globe
Statens Museum for Kunst assesses how Northern Europeans interpreted Japan
Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work
Japanese art finally finds favour in London
Contemporary Japanese artists have struggled for recognition in the capital, but that could be changing
Tokyo collector Kenzo Kuroda opens New York space for contemporary Japanese art
Longhouse Projects wishes to introduce little known Japanese artists to New York - and the world
Japanese Outsider Art gets a warm Wellcome
The exhibition will bring together more than 300 works by residents of social welfare institutions on the country’s Honshu island
Jean Pigozzi's expansive collections in Congolese and Japanese art come together in new show
Jean Pigozzi convinces artist Carsten Höller to mix and match the French collector’s art in 'JapanCongo'
Dealers put safety first: Design Miami Basel 2010
There were still surprises in store
Illuminating lacquer maker Onishi Isao, one of Japan's Living National Treasures
“The beauty is in the process and the final object is the sum of the path"
Murakami to launch art fair Geisai in Basel next year
The Japanese art festival's new edition will be well placed to offer exposure to emerging stars
Murakami to Gagosian?
Japanese artist and curator may have moved on from his gallerist of 10 years
Rising Japanese stars at bargain prices to be found at Geisai
François Pinault was a judge at the vast but inexpensive Geisai fair
These are the Japanese artists in the international league
Two have already broken the $1 million barrier, and auction prices are rising
Interview with Sherman Lee: “Innovation, wherever it occurs, is ‘modern’, and people could be more modern in ancient times than we are now”
One of the great connoisseurs of our time, the curator of the current exhibition of Chinese art at the Guggenheim talks about Chinese art seen from within and without
Partial success for Japanese woodblock prints at the Bérès sale
Hokusai is now hotter than Sharaku