Dr. Kurt Gitter, an innovator in eye surgery who amassed and donated a vast collection of Japanese art, died Wednesday at Touro Infirmary. He was 89. The cause of death has not been established, said ...

It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, they were ...

Naoshi specializes in sunae, the Japanese art of making images out of colored sand. She also creates sweet DIY sand art kits ...

Approaching Japan's artistically diverse and politically entangled history of art is a formidable task, not least because English-language art history publications on the multifaceted subject are few ...

Japan House is holding a series of sumi-e, or black ink painting, courses in November and December. These lessons are taught by Shozo Sato, professor in FAA and founder of Japan House. Black ink ...

It is July in Yokohama, Japan, a port city situated to the south of Tokyo’s urban sprawl. Slowed down by the blistering heat, a cohort of besuited men filtered drowsily into the cavernous Pacifico ...

Promoting cultural dialogue through artistic expression, the Embassy of Japan in Pakistan, in collaboration with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) and the Pakistan-Japan Cultural ...

From April 7 to July 26, the National Film Archive of Japan explores the creative intersection between cinema and graphic design with ‘The Art of Film Posters i ...

Johannes Vermeer’s painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” will be displayed in Japan later this year, the Dutch Mauritshuis museum said Thursday, a rare outing abroad for one of the world’s most famous ...

Setsuko Mitsuhashi, "The Requital by the White Heron" (1973), natural pigments on Japanese paper (all images courtesy Yasumasa Suzuki and the Setsuko Mitsuhashi Memorial Museum) OTSU, Japan — It’s a ...

A VERY interesting essay upon the Japanese art collections in the National Library was read by Mr. Edward Strange at a meeting of the Japan Society held last year in London. Mr. Strange proved his ...