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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
During a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in the 1970s, Robert Feinberg, a chemist and businessman from Maryland, found himself admiring an Edo Period (1603-1867) painting. Since then, Feinberg and his wife have amassed an impressive collection of ...
This is the eighth annual “Graphic Trial Exhibition,” which explores the potential and future of graphic design and its relationship with printing. The series of exhibitions showcases works from progressive designers, revealing the development of works, from design conception through to the printing process. ...
To commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Japan Art Association, The Ueno Royal Museum is presenting a collection of arts and crafts that once belonged to the Arisugawa (1835-1895) and Takamatsu (1905-1987) imperial families. The artifacts, many of which were part of an extremely ...
The late 1960s was an important period for the development of Japanese photography, which helped pictorialise and document the era’s significant political and social changes. This show focuses on the years 1966 to 1974, and is split into four sections: the history of photographic ...
Natsume Soseki, one of Japan’s great Meiji Era (1868-1912) writers, is best known for the novels “Kokoro,” “Botchan,” ” I Am a Cat” and his unfinished work “Light and Darkness.” He was also a fan of, and particularly knowledgeable about, Japanese and British art, ...
Though largely revered for its law school, Harvard University offers students of many fields an Ivy League education that has attracted top students from all over the world. In architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design provides unparalleled teaching, which has resulted in an ...
Widely considered one of the greatest artworks of the European Middle Ages, “The Lady and the Unicorn” tapestries have only once before been lent out of France by the Musée de Cluny in Paris. This summer, the work goes overseas for the first time ...
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is one of the best-known ukiyo-e (floating world) painters and print makers of the Edo Period (1603-1867). His most famous series of prints, “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” includes the internationally acclaimed “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and “Fuji in Clear ...
Art Deco is often associated with architecture and design products, but it was equally influential in the field of visual arts. This exhibition presents the illustrations of artists George Barbier and Jean-Emile Laboureur, with 120 prints from the collection of scholar of French literature, ...
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Mori Art Museum has chosen as a topic one of the most mysterious and desired experiences on Earth: Love. Complex and varied, love — romantic, familial, for mankind or for the self — brings together an eclectic range ...
Spanish artist Antonio López is renowned for the tediously slow pace of his creative process, sometimes touching up works 10 years after starting them. Some may be familiar with his unusual artistic method through Victor Erice’s 1992 documentary “The Quince Tree Sun,” which follows ...
Leonardo da Vinci is probably best-known for his “Mona Lisa,” but as a painter, artist and engineer, he was also one of the most prominent personalities of the Italian Renaissance. This exhibition brings to Japan various artworks and letters from the Biblioteca e Pinacoteca ...