For at least a year, Japanese authorities have been vying for a bigger spot in the booming international art market. They have worked to make it easier for galleries to transact at art fairs and free ...

Mieko Anekawa has reinvented herself several times over. Her journey began with her study of graphic arts in Japan. That led to working in the high-pressure graphic arts industry in New York City ...

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Ikko Tanaka, 71, Japan’s leading graphic designer, died Jan. 11 in Tokyo of a heart attack. Born in 1930 in the nation’s ancient capital of Nara in western Japan, Tanaka studied art as a child. He ...

Now on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Edo Pop: The Graphic Legacy of Japanese Prints shares historic prints of hedonistic pleasures and extravagant pastimes. From beautiful women (read ...

A reception and gallery tour will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25, 2009, for the opening of “Beauty and Bravado in Japanese Woodblock Prints: Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin ...

With approximately 20 prints and related copperplates from the collection of Ken and Kiyo Hitch, this exhibition samples the visions of Hamaguchi Yozo (1909–2000) and Hamanishi Katsunori (born 1949).

ANPO: Art X War, a remarkable documentary from first-time director Linda Hoaglund which was screened at the recent Toronto film festival, deals with the mass opposition that erupted in Japan in 1960 ...

TOKYO, Japan — Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese "shunga" art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...