Mount Sumeru of the Western Pure Land (2000) Ikuo Hirayama clearly represents how the Japanese like to see — and project — the...

While tidying up and throwing away unnecessary things, I came across a catalogue by the photographic artist Rika Noguchi, whose exhib...

Artwork by Tsutsumi Tsutsumu Back in the 1970s, Japan had something of a porn boom. Strict censorship meant that things like full fro...

Southern Coast in the Evening, 1925 Part of the game of art nowadays is for artists, whatever their influences and orientation, to avo...

Women Bathing - I Anyone visiting the present exhibition at Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art might initially think they are...

Pegasus and the Muse Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is one of the most intriguing painters of the turn of the 20th century. He is also one...

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind (1896) William Blake (1757–1827) combined the advantages of the outsider artist with those...

La Toilette de l'enfant, 1899 The avant-garde probably never looked as moderate and conservative as it did in 1888, when a group of you...

Dance at Bougival, 1883 "Suteki (beautiful)!" the young mother cries, dangling her one-year-old infant in front of Renoir...