Hitomi Murakami’s solo exhibition “Fusei — This Floating Life” runs from 13 November to Friday 3 December 2021, in front of the Art Edition section at ...

She lives with cats and she paints them. A third solo exhibition in Japan for Chen Pei-Yi, the finest painter of cats in Asia. Behind the work lies a deep reading of art history ...

Was the meeting a sign of good fortune, or the beginning of a nightmare? People, objects, places, moments, memories — or something that cannot be named. A touch so slight it ...

浮世絵の人気ジャンルだった「美人画」。そこに描かれる女性は、それぞれ違う女性を描いていても、絵師によって共通の特徴を持っている。さらに時代によっても美人画として描かれる顔は大きく変 ...

At Bunkamura Gallery in Shibuya we present seven artists, each with a world of their own. What are those listless women looking at, and what are they asking of us? Ayano Oki ...

Yasunari Ikenaga’s exhibition of new work, “The Boy Sho”, runs from Saturday 25 September to Friday 15 October 2021 at the Art Wall Gallery of Ginza Tsutaya ...

“One of a kind. We are looking for art no one has seen before.” Contemporary art, Nihonga, Western-style painting: the categories matter less than the work, and every ...

At Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, Shukado presents five accomplished artists. They set down carefully what they have seen. Put plainly, they are serious painters. They work up what they ...

Amanatsu Aono paints a world of her own invention with a supple, finely judged line. Kotao Tomozawa gives the feel of a surface a strange brightness and lightness. Two young ...

“Once upon a time, in a certain place…” The stories that held us as children hold us still. Seven artists — Toko Okamoto, Hiroki Kakinuma, Takuma Kamine ...

三嶋哲也、木村了子、daikichi、永田優介による、かつてない異色の4人展。男女の肉体の匂い立つ表現が際立つ、油彩画家、日本画家、人形作家、写真家の表現が、妄想と現実がクロスする白日夢へ ...

With the coming of the Meiji era and the spread of photography and mechanical printing, ukiyo-e went slowly into decline. At the same time it produced new kinds of print: kaika-e ...

The third volume in the bijinga anthology edited by Yasunari Ikenaga, who leads the field. This exhibition marks the publication of Bijinga Zukushi III.

Three young artists to watch. Masako Hasegawa works in vivid colour, with humour and irony. Hiroki Niimi has drawn attention for work that moves freely across the line between art ...

現代美人画の新天地を開拓する7人のアーティストと、美人画の基盤を築いた巨匠たちの画業を一同に展観 作家：池永康晟、岡本東子、大竹彩奈、蒼野甘夏、田口由花、阿部清子、沖綾乃 ...

Six gifted artists at Bunkamura Gallery. The worlds they make are fragile, and can look like somewhere else altogether. Yet look steadily at the figures, the plants and animals ...

Toko Okamoto has painted the female figure throughout her career. What she is after is not the pretty beauty now in fashion but the strength of a woman and the weight of a life ...

This year artKYOTO is held at the Kyoto National Museum, in the Meiji Kotokan, a listed building put up 125 years ago. Shukado shows a collection centred on Fujita Tsuguharu ...

The women painted by Yuka Taguchi and Shiori Matsuura. A passing expression, the curve of a body, supple hair, exact fingertips, luminous skin: each of them holds a light of her ...

Why did the artist choose that material, and what did it let them say? Coral, mother-of-pearl, acrylic sheet, tempera, digital collage: works made by many means and from many ...

The theme of this solo exhibition is Signals. Hitomi Murakami senses that we are at a turning point, where the old arrangements of the world are being remade. Standing at such a ...

The Weekend Exhibition series presents artists Shukado is watching, both in the gallery and online: three days in Ginza, and two weeks on the web. The first pair are Hiroko ...

The Weekend Exhibition series presents artists Shukado is watching, both in the gallery and online: three days in Ginza, and two weeks on the web. The second edition brings ...

The theme here is not beauty but strangeness. Hiroki Kakinuma and Yo Takagi share that one word, and this is their long-awaited two-person exhibition. Both have been recognised at ...