Katsushika Hokusai is one of Japan’s most famous ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artists, known in particular for his “Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji,” a series of prints depicting the iconic mountain. Around the end of the 19th century, when Japonism (Western art influenced by the ...

Kohitsugire are fragments of ancient calligraphy manuscripts. These sections or pages of text were originally part of scrolls or books such as the famous “Kokin Wakashu,” an Imperial anthology of poetry popular with aristocrats during the Heian and Kamakura periods. The fragments, which were ...

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica, a small town in the Basque country, was bombed by Nazi German supporters of Spain’s Nationalists. In response, Pablo Picasso painted his depiction of the carnage, and the painting became one of his most famous works. ...

Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui is one of today’s leading modern artists. He studied at the College of Art and Social Science at the University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, Ghana, and went on to teach at the University of Nigeria for many years. ...

“The joy of hospitality” is the main theme of this exhibition, which brings together teacups, teaspoons, glasses, vases and other paraphernalia used to entertain guests. In the late 19th century, Japanese arts and crafts were introduced at international expositions in various major cities across ...

This exhibition traces the symbolic use and transformation of the phoenix and lion in various aspects of Japanese culture. Both the phoenix and the lion are symbols of Chinese origins that are often associated with immortality. Throughout Japanese history, they have been used in ...

After the Industrial Revolution in England (mid-18th to mid-19th centuries), society became concerned with increasing poverty and pollution and many yearned for a return to bygone values and morals. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded by the young painters William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and ...