All things weird and wonderful were loved by the Surrealists and there is plenty of the weird and wonderful in the world of their fellow traveler Yuri Nonaka. The Kamakura Annex of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, is currently holding an ...

When the influential art critic Clement Greenberg described a particular painter as “the most copious source of what we know as modern art, the most abundant generator of ideas and the most enduring in newness,” it wasn’t, as some might expect, Pablo Picasso he ...

It is hard to think of fin de siecle Paris without recalling the dancing girls and dandies of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful prints. It is equally difficult to imagine work by the artist not centered on the city’s hedonistic and decadent nightlife. While focusing ...

From its original base in Kyoto to its later establishment in Edo, present-day Tokyo, the Kano school held a firm grip on the Japanese art world from the middle of the Muromachi Period (1392-1573) to the Meiji Era (1868-1912) — a grip aided by ...

Laforet Museum HarajukuCloses Sept. 19 Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is known mainly for his fantastic and macabre animations, such as “Alice” (1988), based on Lewis Carol’s novel, and his interpretation of “Faust” (1994). This new exhibition, however, explores the vast range and variety of ...

The launch of Metamorphose just over a decade ago helped bring more choice to Japan’s summer music festival season. The event’s focus was on electronic-music acts, but over the years it has lived up to its name and broadened its lineup. “When we started ...

The concept behind Hifana’s new CD/DVD, “24H,” is to convey a day in the life of the Tokyo breakbeat duo via 12 tracks, each with its own video. The album focuses on Hifana’s fresh approach to mix-and-match music-making, with over half the tracks featuring ...

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Closes Sept. 20 The main focus of “Innocence — Art Towards Life,’ is the work of people in Tochigi Prefecture who have mental difficulties or intellectual disabilities. Such untutored artists, often referred to as “outsider” artists, are considered ...

Mizuma Art Gallery — Mizuma Action Closes on Aug. 14 Mizuma Art Gallery is hosting the first show in Asia of 35-year-old Canadian artist Robert Waters. “MAN” explores a variety of issues concerning sexuality, the body and human mortality. The figure in “Man at ...

Color photography, once thought of as the crass, poor cousin of the more aesthetically pleasing monochrome, is now firmly established as a valid art form. We have William Eggleston and his vivid images of rural America to thank for that. Born in Memphis, Tennessee ...

Following last year’s booking of Manuel Gottsching, Metamorphose continues to introduce Japanese audiences to the roots of electronic music with legendary Krautrock group Tangerine Dream headlining. A real coup for the festival, this is the band’s second ever time in Japan, the first, and ...

Over the last decade or so, India has gone through unprecedented change, from largely missing out on the advances of the 20th century to rapidly becoming a leader of those in the 21st. But while the fragmented media coverage of the country hails its ...