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From Nerhol’s impressionistic abstractions to Cai Guo-Qiang’s AI generated firework explosions

BY John L. Tran | 06 JUL 23

The poet and artist creates works that occupy a transitional state between life and death

BY Sayuri Okamoto | 06 JUN 23

At Komaba Museum, Tokyo, a retrospective showcases the late postwar artist and theorist’s dedication to transforming polarized media representations

BY Azby Brown | 17 AUG 21

Informed by his Manchurian identity, the artist sets out by motorcycle for the Chinese Eastern Railway to explore the Northeast province's fading heritage

BY Nooshfar Afnan | 08 DEC 20

For the inaugural exhibition at I.L.A. Gallery, the artist used the Japanese paper-making technique of washi to connect with rural histories

BY Yosihiro Yabe | 16 SEP 20

After years of controversy around Zaha Hadid’s doomed proposal, Kuma’s sober design arrived on time and within budget – only for the games to be postponed 

BY Azby Brown | 10 JUL 20

‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ is a mesmerizing display of silk brocades and detailed craft, but glances over history’s muddier moments

BY Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | 06 MAR 20

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things
 

BY John Quin | 11 NOV 19

An Instagram user documented the artwork being whisked away as Typhoon Krosa approached Japan’s Naoshima island

BY Frieze News Desk | 19 AUG 19

At the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the past year has seen the most extensive survey of contemporary Japanese art outside of the country in 17 years 

BY Edward Ball | 19 FEB 18

Japan’s growing number of art festivals tread a precarious path between state-sponsored leisure-culture and soft-power machinery

BY Andrew Maerkle | 15 AUG 17

A recent show traces the creative legacies of an artist and an architect who helped shape Japan’s futurist aspirations

BY Philip Brophy | 26 JUL 17

An image of the sole survivor tree after the 2011 tsunami in Japan 

BY Philip Brophy | 22 APR 17

Various venues, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

BY Edward Ball | 25 MAY 16

The anarchic 1920s Tokyo art movement Mavo and the internationalism of the Japanese Avant-garde

BY Andrew Maerkle | 27 OCT 14

After the tsunami: the role of disaster in Japan’s artistic psyche

BY Philip Brophy AND Kyoji Maeda | 01 JAN 11

Various Venues, Yokohama, Japan

BY Jennifer Higgie | 01 JAN 08