Japanese Art

A new wave of spaces has emerged to embrace the city’s pop sensibility and challenge the status quo

The eighth edition makes novel use of cacophony, disorientation and deferred gratification

We spoke with the artists representing Japan and South Korea about their Venice exhibitions and the obsolescence of national divisions

The German director discusses his latest Oscar-nominated film and adopting the philosophy of a Tokyo toilet cleaner

From Nerhol’s impressionistic abstractions to Cai Guo-Qiang’s AI generated firework explosions

The poet and artist creates works that occupy a transitional state between life and death

An exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum will present hundreds of Japanese posters from the 1930s to the present day

The mural depicts a dystopian Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics

The British Museum’s survey of Japanese comics plunges us into their strange, visionary wonderlands

On display at Cleveland Museum of Art are 125 religiously revered works from the past 1300 years 

The collection includes robes made from salmon skin and a deerskin jacket worn by a 19th century fireman

The painter found something much more important than grandeur in ‘ukiyo-e’: the messy realities of everyday life 

At the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the past year has seen the most extensive survey of contemporary Japanese art outside of the country in 17 years 

Japan’s growing number of art festivals tread a precarious path between state-sponsored leisure-culture and soft-power machinery

The provocative works of the Japanese collective Chim↑Pom

The anarchic 1920s Tokyo art movement Mavo and the internationalism of the Japanese Avant-garde

The Japanese artist discusses photography and the viewer as an intermediary