Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject matter ...

Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...

“Prism of the Real,” on through Dec. 8, explores how artists challenged the structures of power by creating new spaces for dialogue and experimentation. Photo: Keizo Kioku When thinking about art in ...

In the heart of the Seto Inland Sea, between the Japanese islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū, is Naoshima, a small island community famous for its art and architecture. Naoshima is only accessible ...

Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject matter is so distinctively Japanese. But that couldn’t last. The same ...