Ancient Buddhist Statue May Be Returned to Japanese Temple after 10-Year Legal Battle
A South Korean temple had claimed it was the rightful owner of the work.
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Mari Katayama's legs were amputated at age 9 due to a congenital limb disease.
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Two of Japan’s rising stars interview each other about family, creative expression, and the difference between painting and acting
Meet the young stars of Japan's art scene.
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23,000-Year-Old Colored Bead Found in Japan
It is the oldest example of artificially colored jewelry to be discovered in the country.
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Citizen Noguchi
The events of Pearl Harbor had turned Noguchi into a Nisei overnight, with artistic activities backgrounded.
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From the Archives: Japan’s Gutai Group
Where does play end and art begin? The interest in such questions, largely fostered by the 2013 exhibition “Gutai: Splendid Playground” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, has now prompted a resurge…
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Overview: In The Aftermath
The fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on March 11, and the subsequent tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown has come and gone as I write this. It was a full-time job running aroun…
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Best of Japan, 2015
Reiko Tomii is a New York-based independent scholar and co-director of PoNJA-GenKon, an academic list serve on the topic of postwar Japanese art. She spoke with A.i.A. about the best exhibitions in…
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Morning Links: Kenya and Costa Rica Edition
The country of Japan will be donating $1 million to the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art. [Artforum] Kenya and Costa Rica…
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Japan’s Postwar Art Wave
Museum and gallery shows on Mono-ha, Gutai, and other avant-garde movements in Japan from the '50s onward are shedding new light on an era previously unknown to the West
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