Cover: Auction Record for Hokusai’s Great Wave. Profile: the artist Izumi Kato. Sony Landscape Photographer of the year, 2020. A conversation with Hamra Abbas, a participant in Asia Society’s new triennale in New York. Hokusai: Mad about Painting. The recently discovered Hokusai drawings now in the British Museum collections. Momoyama Artistic Traditions in a Turbulent Century, in Tokyo. Seeing Japanese beauty through woodblock prints. Edo Avant-Garde, a documentary film by Linda Hoaglund. From the Archives: Dogu. Zaido – Yukari Chikura discovers an ancient Japanese ritual. Tempus Fugit, in Florida. Exhibitions in Kyoto, Ohio, and Cologne . Auctions, gallery shows and fairs. Islamic Arts Dairy.
Asian Art Newspaper looks at the culture of the Azuchi-Momoyama period and Sengoku period, when a taste for lavish gold screens of the Kano School appeared alongside the refinement of The Tea Ceremony The Azuchi-Momoyama (1573-1603) period refers to the… Continue reading
An unusual exhibition exploring beauty secrets in Japanese prints and the beauty rituals of women during the Edo period (1603-1868) highlights practices and traditions that sometimes still echo in Japanese society today. Organised in four sections, the exhibition in Paris… Continue reading
Asian Art Newspaper talks to the Japanese contemporary artist Izumi Kato The Japanese artist Izumi Kato has a practice is captivating and singular, echoing his vision of what art should be. Depicting human-like forms, he sets the stage for the… Continue reading
From the Jomon period of Japanese history, Dogu clay figures have fascinated the public, as seen in this exhibition, The Power of Dogu, held at the British Museum in 2009. Dogu clay figures are abstract with recognisably human or animal… Continue reading