Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; the engraver, who ...

Paper artworks accumulate layers of unusual materials like plastic, foam, glue, and tape. In our era of media endlessly copied, reproduced, and loaded to screens, these photographs and prints beg to ...

Time was when Japan's cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese ...

HERE: JAPANESE ART ALIGHTS IN CAPE ESTATE. If you’re not traveling to Japan this summer, you can still immerse yourself in ...

The woodblock prints on paper — created by four-person teams of designers, carvers, printers and publishers — bloom into harmonious arrays of colors, many of them taken from nature.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...

Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.

The Japanese Paper Film Project presents “An Evening of Japanese Paper Films,” a screening of recently preserved 1930s Japanese paper films on ... Print courtesy of the Machiko Kusahara ...