ART INSPIRED BY THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF 7th OCTOBER

ART INSPIRED BY THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF 7th OCTOBER

One difference between people in Gaza and people in Israel in the present conflict between the two is that people in Israel are still able t...
Utopia: Zhu Wei

Utopia: Zhu Wei

The status of contemporary Chinese art often seems driven by the notion that China is projected to overtake America as the world's leadi...
The Spooky Side of Sanyutei Encho

The Spooky Side of Sanyutei Encho

For all sorts of reasons, summer is the season of ghosts in Japan. Accordingly, The University Art Museum in Tokyo is presenting an exhibiti...
SHUNSO ISHIDA, RADICAL TRADITIONALIST

SHUNSO ISHIDA, RADICAL TRADITIONALIST

Fallen leaves (right panels), 1909-10 It’s no secret that the Japanese art world was going through major changes at the end of the 19th cent...
MASAHISA FUKASE: THE SOLITUDE OF RAVENS

MASAHISA FUKASE: THE SOLITUDE OF RAVENS

Your wife dumps you. What do you do? Some might celebrate by busting out the old bachelor gear and hitting the town. Others might sit teary-...
Drawing: Arse

Drawing: Arse

This is a drawing I did with a whiteboard marker on a catalogue picture of Felix Vallatton's 1884 painting "Etude de fesses.&...
SASAE ONO: X-RAYED WOMAN

SASAE ONO: X-RAYED WOMAN

X-Rayed Woman (1949) Art can sometimes be surprisingly serious and po-faced, almost as if it were seen as a kind of substitute religion. ...
CHINA'S SOFT POWER OFFENSIVE DRAWS BIG CROWDS IN TOKYO

CHINA'S SOFT POWER OFFENSIVE DRAWS BIG CROWDS IN TOKYO

Emperor Qian Long by the  Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione Chinese culture is on the long, slow rebound. Back in 1989, the government wa...
A DOUBLE DOSE OF PICASSO'S PERSONAL COLLECTIONS

A DOUBLE DOSE OF PICASSO'S PERSONAL COLLECTIONS

Nu couche (1932 ) Picasso is sometimes accused of being too prolific, dashing off paintings and other artworks as if there were no tomorrow...
DUCHAMP: SEPARATING THE ARTIST FROM THE ARTISAN

DUCHAMP: SEPARATING THE ARTIST FROM THE ARTISAN

Large Glass Rembrandt was a dauber, Michelangelo a chiseler. Both, like so many other workers in oils or stone, were, despite the subl...

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