Surrounded by his expansive library and exquisite objects, a collector whose aesthetic helped shape America’s idea of minimalism has built a maximalist nirvana. In the paneled sitting room of ...

During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated all West Coast Japanese Americans in internment camps. We ask how this forced displacement affected Japanese American enclaves. Using the recently ...

Nicholas Albertson, assistant professor of Japanese, discussed how a 1920s anarchist feminist poet diagnosed Japan’s rising imperialism during a presentation on Tuesday, Nov. 11. His presentation, ...

Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection at The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, highlights powerful personal and documentary work ...

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present ‘Gutai,’ an exhibition exploring the legacy of one of Japan’s most innovative and influential avant-garde collectives of the twentieth century.

Two British explorers have put George Mallory's 1920s Everest kit to the ultimate test by wearing it up a Himalayan mountain. Identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner, 37, summited Nepal's 21,250–feet ...

The word sushi today conjures images of fresh, succulent fish laid over perfectly seasoned rice -- morsels so plump that they defy a single bite. Its taste is unique, sophisticated and painstakingly ...

Just like the Western world, Japan experienced its own version of the Roaring Twenties. This decade in between World Wars was a time of modernization and progress for Japan, with burgeoning artistic ...

During the first half of the twentieth century, Western psychiatry was quickly absorbed in Japan, particularly the versions from Germany and Austria. By 1940, over 130 psychiatric hospitals were ...

APPRAISER: And And, the Ando workshop produced magnificent cloisonné works during the Meiji period. And then as they went into the early 20th century, the work's quality diminished. This is, uh, uh, ...