Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers.

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.

Galleries Art Week Tokyo’s Third Edition Boasts ‘Glocal’ Ambitions to Bridge Japanese Contemporary Art With the International Market Japan is eager to get back into the global art world with ...

Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave – and there are signs that life there may be finally rebounding.

This major exhibition is both a comprehensive overview of Japan’s visual creativity over the past several decades, and an illuminating ‘portrait’ of the state o ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has transformed into a wonderland of colorful Japanese contemporary art. Why it matters: The new exhibit, "Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow," comes ...

Highfield Hall & Gardens is once again the only US venue where people can see the College Women’s Association of Japan’s ...

The psychiatrist Ryutaro Takahashi has spent the past three decades building one of the most impressive and visible collections of contemporary Japanese art, with regular displays in Takahashi’s ...

Famed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami has created artworks, luxury goods with fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, album covers and an exclusive merchandising collection with Major ...

Mingei: Japan’s ‘Art of the People’ is Having a Moment There’s a contemporary flavor to the ideas and critiques surrounding this century-old Japanese crafts movement.