The late 19th and 20th centuries witnessed a series of flip-flops among scholars as to whether calligraphy could be considered a fine art. Compared to painting and sculpture, wrote painter Koyama ...

Are you trendy or traditional when it comes to tattoos. Wooster artists see much of both - flowers and butterflies to lyrics ...

Twelve Filipino contemporary artists are set to conquer Japan this October with an art exhibition aptly dubbed as BIJUTSU- a Japanese word that means “fine art.” Exhibit Poster The group led ...

As a student, and one of his distinctions was to become known among the 10 best disciples of Okyo, Rosetsu mastered the superlative realism of his teacher that combined the indefinite spatial ...

TOKYO—When Keiko Takemiya made her manga debut in 1968, her publisher told her that her original drawings for the comic books could be thrown out. She insisted on getting them back, stamping ...

"Vase with Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. If you ...

The National Museum of Asian Art mounts a 300-year exhibition of Japanese literati art, a category that comprises poetry, calligraphy and painting inspired by the culture of the mainland.