Kazuyuki Takezaki: Japanese Landscape Painter Dies aged 48
Kazuyuki Takezaki, a painter known for his ethereal, blurred landscapes that capture the impermanence of the natural world, died
26 June 2024
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Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking
The exhibition shines a spotlight on three generations of woodblock print artists including Yoshida Hiroshi, Fujio, Tōshi, Hodaka Chizuko and Ayomi
Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm inc. bank holidays.
Japanese Art: Three UK Exhibitions Explore A Multitude Of Work – Claudia Barbieri
Japanese art is having its time in the sun, with three British galleries putting on summer shows that illustrate the variety and adaptability of the country’s woodblock printing tradition.
10 June 2024
An Artistic Pilgrimage in Naoshima Japan – Virginie Syn
For a long time, I’ve been fascinated by Naoshima, a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea.
18 March 2024
British Museum Close To Parthenon Marbles Deal – Ukraine Banksy Theft Ringleader Faces Imprisonment – Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Dies Aged 91
British Museum Close To Parthenon Marbles Deal – Ukraine Banksy Theft Ringleader Faces Imprisonment – Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Dies Aged 91
5 January 2023
Raymond Briggs Creator Of The Snowman Dies Aged 88 – Issey Miyake Japanese fashion designer Dies Aged 84 – Peter Waldron British Abstract Painter Dies Aged 80
In a town not unfamiliar with colourful personalities, Peter Waldron was for several decades one of the most familiar figures about the streets and pubs of Hastings Old Town
9 August 2022
Japan: Courts And Culture
The Royal Collection holds some of the most significant examples of Japanese art and design in the western world. For the first time, highlights from this outstanding collection are brought together to tell the story of 300 years of diplomatic, artistic and cultural exchange between the British and Japanese royal and imperial families.
Thursday-Monday 10am - 5.30pm (Closed Tues and Wed)
Stolen Joshua Reynolds Painting In Japanese Museum Was Sold By Sotheby’s
A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, stolen from a UK stately home in 1984, has been discovered in the collection of a Japanese museum.
6 September 2019
Unprecedented $1m Contemporary Art Prize Launched By Japan’s Nomura Holdings
Nomura Holdings, Inc. announced today that it is creating the largest cash award in contemporary visual arts to encourage and nurture creativity.
20 March 2019
Memories of the Japanese Tsunami Explored In Tomohiro Muda Photographs
Today is the last day to see The Horiuchi Foundation’s presentation of a series of photographs by Tomohiro Muda in an exhibition Icons of Time: Memories of the Tsunami that Struck Japan.
21 May 2017
Japanese Vagina Artist Megumi Igarashi Found Guilty In Obscenity Trial
Megumi Igarashi, the Japanese artist best known for her vagina shaped construction of a kayak has been convicted after a high-profile obscenity… Read More
10 May 2016
Japanese Painter Noritake Kinashi Opens First US Solo Exhibition
Last week marked the opening of Japanese painter Noritake Kinashi’s first solo exhibition in the United States, at the Japanese… Read More
7 November 2015
Japanese Artist Kohei Nawa To Open At Pace Gallery London
Pace London presents an exhibition of work by the Japanese artist Kohei Nawa. The exhibition will be staged at Pace… Read More
5 September 2015
Chiharu Shiota Creates Enchanting Japanese Pavilion For 56 Venice Biennale
When I visited Chiharu Shiota’s studio a year ago in Berlin, she had just been invited to represent Japan at… Read More
18 May 2015
Five Decades Japanese Exhibition To Open At Simon Lee Gallery
Simon Lee Gallery presents ‘Five Decades: Sculpture and Works on Paper: Koji Enokura, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Noboru Takayama’. The… Read More
13 May 2015
Japanese Group Exhibition Opening At Griffin Gallery London
West London’s Griffin Gallery presents the exhibition ‘Two Truths’ bringing together six talented Japanese artists and recent graduates working in… Read More
17 April 2015
Japanese Vagina Artist Megumi Igarashi Pleads Not Guilty To Obscenity Charges
The Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, who was charged for obscenity while showcasing her plans to build a kayak shaped like her vagina… Read More
16 April 2015
Luc Tuymans Discusses His Dark Paintings, Japanese Cannibals, And Francisco De Goya
The renowned Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has a new exhibtion at David Zwirner, which is presenting the artist’s latest paintings
4 February 2015
Japanese Artist Megumi Igarashi Charged In Art Obscenity Case
Megumi Igarashi the Japanese artist who arrested for creating a kayak based on an image of her vagina has now… Read More
26 December 2014
There’s A Giant Floating Head Over Japan
Just over 60 miles north of Tokyo, in the sky over Utsunomiya, there floats a giant head. Yes, a giant… Read More
22 December 2014
Japanese Artist Megumi Igarashi Arrested For Obscenity In Tokyo
Megumi Igarashi the Japanese artist who created a kayak based on an image of her vagina has been arrested for… Read More
4 December 2014
Genpei Akasegawa Japanese Artist And Convicted Forger Dead Aged 77
The well-known avant-garde Japanese artist and writer Genpei Akasegawa has died in a Tokyo hospital on Sunday morning. The 77-year-old… Read More
27 October 2014
Japanese Artist Yoshitomo Nara To Have Major Exhibition At London’s Dairy Art Centre
London’s Dairy Art Centre is presenting a major solo exhibition by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, in October. This will… Read More
19 July 2014
Hokusai Exposed: Master Works Exhibited Using Japanese Digital Technology
Visitors to Hokusai Exposed will be immersed in the works of the great Japanese Master, Katsushika Hokusai, “re-created” using state-of… Read More
26 October 2013
British Museum Mounts Exhibition of Sexually Explicit Japanese Shunga Art
Thousands of ‘spring pictures’ or shunga, art were produced in Japan between 1600-1900. Now the British Museum has compiled a… Read More
1 October 2013
Anish Kapoor’s Disaster Dome Concert Hall Ark Nova Launches In Japan
“I am honored to have been asked to design Ark Nova for the Tohoku area. The structure defines a space… Read More
29 September 2013
Sotheby’s Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints Gets 18 Plus Rating
Following the success of the two contemporary ink art exhibitions in June, Sotheby’s Hong Kong is excited to bring to… Read More
15 July 2013
Souzou: Japanese Outsider Art Hits the UK In New Exhibition
The spring exhibition titled Souzou’ brings together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art… Read More
22 April 2013
Japanese Architect Sou Fujimoto To Design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
The Serpentine Gallery has announced that Pavilion 2013 will be designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is… Read More
15 February 2013
Japanese Outsider Art New Wellcome Collection Exhibition For Spring 2013
London’s Wellcome Collection is mounting ‘Outsider Art from Japan’, in spring 2013. The exhibitionl brings together more than 300 works… Read More
23 December 2012
Design From Tohoku Japan’s Tsunami Zone
Devastated by the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami which followed, Tohoku, a region of outstanding natural beauty, was home to… Read More
9 July 2012
Anish Kapoor Ark Nova Project For Japan
Anish Kapoor the Turner prize winning Sculptor along with architect Arata Isozaki have been commissioned to design a pop up… Read More
6 September 2011