Mona Lisa or "Avalokitesvara Bearing a Fish Basket” (c. 1927)? Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, givi...

I don’t normally visit exhibitions in company, but this time I made an exception, and press-ganged a female acquaintance to join me. The rea...

In the Middle Ages, before the dawn of science, alchemists tried to  find ways to make gold. Of course their efforts were futile, but where ...

HAZAMA Inosuke, Recollection of Kugenuma, 1937, Hazama Inosuke Museum One of the two shows now on at the Artizon focuses on the life and wo...

The German artist Rebecca Horn recently passed away . Here is my review of her 2009 Tokyo show published in Metropolis magazine. As it stan...

If somebody had made a lifelike marble statue of you, lying dead in your mother's arms, what would you do? I know, it's a rather odd...

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...

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

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

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...