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Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

CULTURE / Art

Apr 22, 2024

Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins

By Thu-Huong Ha

This year’s installment of the photography festival highlights underrepresented groups from around the world — while avoiding anything too challenging.

Yayoi Kusama during a media preview of her exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in November 2013.

CULTURE / Art

Apr 11, 2024

Yayoi Kusama was the world’s top-selling artist last year

By Thu-Huong Ha

Sales from Kusama’s auctioned works totaled $80.9 million in 2023, moving her up from the second-highest selling artist in 2022.

Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” once the victim of high waves that dragged it into the sea, sits at the end of a pier on the south side of Naoshima.

CULTURE / Art / Longform

Apr 6, 2024

Why is the most exciting art in Japan so hard to get to?

By Thu-Huong Ha

Japan has a unique movement of public art projects and festivals that are a slog to get to — by design. A writer examines the country's “inconvenient art."

Retired management professor and trekker Jitendra V. Singh completed his goal of collecting all 46 prints in the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” in 2023.

CULTURE / Art

Mar 23, 2024

One collector’s high mountain road to Hokusai

By Geraldine Fabrikant

A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.

Riken Yamamoto is the ninth Japanese architect to receive the Pritzker Prize in the award’s 45-year history.

CULTURE / Art

Mar 5, 2024

Riken Yamamoto awarded Pritzker Prize for architecture

By Thu-Huong Ha

Riken Yamamoto is the ninth Japanese architect to receive the honor, making the nation again the country with the most Pritzker laureates.

Masahide Miyasaka, a visiting professor at Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University, says he appreciates the ordinary world painted by Kawahara Keiga.

CULTURE / Art

Mar 4, 2024

Renewed attention on Edo-era artist offers window into Japan's past

By Hiroshige Shimoe

The ordinary world painted by Kawahara Keiga, in a Dutch-influenced style, serves to capture life in Japan around 200 years ago.

At the new teamLab Borderless museum, the crowd-favorite room of lamps from Borderless 1.0 has evolved into a room of light bubbles, which interact with each other and the bodies passing by.

CULTURE / Art

Feb 8, 2024

Have we reached teamLab saturation?

By Thu-Huong Ha

The art collective re-opens its Borderless museum in Azabudai Hills. But the experience is starting to feel stale.

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.

Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree

By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Live like a lord or lady for a night at Ozu Castle

Live like a lord or lady for a night at Ozu Castle

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