Japanese government panel proposes making ancient tomb's mural paintings a national treasure
A government panel on Monday recommended the mural paintings of the ancient Kitora tomb in western Japan be recognized as a national treasure in a bid to enhance their preservation following more than a decade of restoration work. The recommendation by the advisory council for ...
Yamaguchi museum's showing of long-missing Sesshu work rekindles interest in treasured ink artist
The discovery of a long-missing painting by Sesshu, a master in the Japanese art of sumi-e (ink painting), after 84 years is generating renewed interest in the 16th century painter, boosting visitors to a Yamaguchi museum displaying the work. The museum announced the rare find ...
Kagoshima artist paints squid and eats them, too
Yuka Miyauchi is a painter, but she's not interested in landscapes. Her art is all about squid. She uses squid ink in her work, she exhibits regularly and evangelizes about the animals' beauty. And she adores them served up on a plate. Miyauchi, a 30-year-old native ...
Nine original Andy Warhol prints were quietly stolen from a Los Angeles movie business and replaced with fakes in an art heist that went undetected for years, police and court documents showed on Thursday. The silk-screen prints worth an estimated $350,000 are from the artist's ...
Germany should buy — and show — Hitler's art
The German government should exhibit Adolf Hitler's artwork publically to help people better undersand what happened to Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
The eminent but anonymous British street artist known as Banksy has posted a minidocumentary on his website, banksy.co.uk, showing squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip six months after the end of the war between the enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel. Israel was criticized over ...
An exhibition showcasing owl-themed paintings by artists with disabilities from countries including Japan, Nepal, South Korea and Italy is taking place at a New York gallery. The show, titled "Fukuro: Owls of Hayashibara, Japan" at Cavin-Morris Gallery, is themed after the owl because the bird ...
