Art Aug 11, 2020
Anti-Olympics artists put on show at Tokyo gallery near new stadium
by Ami Takahashi
Artists hope to show the myriad problems that still plague Tokyo's hosting of the athletic extravaganza.
Entertainment News Feb 16, 2020
A new Valentine's Day work by U.K. street artist Banksy, showing a young girl firing a slingshot of flowers, has been defaced after appearing on a building in western England. A photograph circulating on social media showed abusive graffiti likely directed at local authorities in ...
World / Crime & Legal Jan 18, 2020
Stolen Gustav Klimt painting found two decades later in wall outside Italian museum
A painting found stashed inside a wall at an Italian museum has been confirmed as the stolen "Portrait of a Lady" by Austria's Gustav Klimt, prosecutors said Friday, two decades after the artwork went missing. The century-old painting was discovered concealed in an external wall ...
Entertainment News Oct 25, 2019
Leonardo da Vinci, whose genius encompassed architecture, anatomy, mechanics, music and even party planning, is known first and foremost for his paintings, though he produced fewer than 20 of them. The curators of a stunning retrospective of the Renaissance master's paintings that opened Thursday at ...
Entertainment News Oct 25, 2019
500 years after death of Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre has blockbuster show
Leonardo da Vinci is the star in a blockbuster retrospective opening Thursday at the Louvre museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master. Some 240,000 people have already reserved their place in line for the exhibition, the biggest ever ...
Asia Pacific / Offbeat Sep 12, 2019
'Ultraman Buddha' art in Thailand brings complaint to police from hard-line group
Thai Buddhist hard-liners have filed a police complaint against a young female artist over paintings that depict Buddha as the 1960s Japanese superhero Ultraman. The complaint over four paintings, displayed last week at a shopping mall in northeastern Thailand, highlights the emboldenment of ultraconservative Buddhist ...
Business / Tech Jun 6, 2019
Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist, gears up for first solo exhibition in Oxford
Wearing a white blouse and her dark hair hanging loose, Ai-Da looks like any artist at work as she studies her subject and puts pencil to paper. But the beeping from her bionic arm gives her away — Ai-Da is a robot. Described as "the ...
Art | MIWA KOMATSU ‘DIVINE SPIRIT’ × The Japan Times Apr 5, 2019
Avant-garde artist creates bridges between life and death
by Chiho Iuchi
With a strong belief that her role is to connect the invisible with the visible world through art, contemporary artist Miwa Komatsu continues to depict otherworldly creatures. People can’t help but be intrigued by the powerful and colorful images of seemingly frightening, yet strangely ...
Art | Heisei Icons Mar 13, 2019
Takashi Murakami: The face of Japanese contemporary art abroad, underappreciated at home
by Andrew Lee
In Tokyo alone, Murakami’s commercial work can be seen in the official mascots for the Roppongi Hills complex and Tokyo MX TV station.
World / Science & Health Jan 10, 2019
Gem traces in teeth hailed as proof that women were involved in creating medieval texts
The discovery of traces of semiprecious gems in the teeth of a 1,000-year-old female skeleton proved women were more widely involved in creating medieval manuscripts than previously thought, a group of international historians said on Wednesday. A study by German-based Max Planck Institute for the ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | Sac Bunts May 28, 2018
British artist Andy Brown captures essence of baseball through paintings
by Jason Coskrey
Some baseball fans carry a glove to a game hoping to catch a ball. Andy Brown is a little bit different. Brown doesn't go to games in search of foul balls. He carries some paint, a few brushes and other supplies. What he hopes to ...
World May 27, 2018
One of Russia's most famous paintings, which depicts Czar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, has been badly damaged after a man attacked it with a metal pole after drinking vodka. The canvas, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581," ...