It’s a chilly evening in Emeryville, where half-a-dozen martial arts students at a community center are practicing with katana. They kneel, jump and slash, then slowly mimic wiping blood off their ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is one of the world’s most reproduced and reinterpreted paintings – but no one has done it quite like Japanese artist Keita Sagaki. From a distance, Sagaki’s replica ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2011, the Los Angles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of “Cranes,” a breathtaking pair of six-panel painted screens by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), Japan’s leading 18th century artist.

TOKYO—When Keiko Takemiya made her manga debut in 1968, her publisher told her that her original drawings for the comic books could be thrown out. She insisted on getting them back, stamping “Please ...

"The Freer Gallery of Art and its Japanese Art Collection" This webinar was the first of series of presentations featuring Japanese and Asian art collections located outside Japan. Dr. Frank Feltens ...