Naoshima, Japan — “So this is what it feels like to be a billionaire art collector,” I said to my husband, John Wessel. “I could get used to this.” It was 9 p.m., and we were still glowing from a ...

Kō Nakajima, “Yutaka Matsuzawa’s Psi Zashiki Room” (1969), one image from a projection of twenty 35-milimeter color slides (courtesy of Keiō University Art Center, Tokyo) It is the rare exhibition ...

Daidō Moriyama, “Lips” (1970), gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 10 3/4 inches (©Daidō Moriyama, photo courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) There are certain exhibitions in which some or many of ...

Japan’s art market has outperformed the global industry over the past five years, according to a new report from art economist Clare McAndrew. While global sales ticked up just 1 percent from 2019 to ...

During Phillips London’s evening sale just weeks ago, bidders located in Asia continued to vigorously compete for works by ultra-contemporary artists. But rather than the usual suspects from Hong Kong ...

Known as the “Art Island” in Kagawa Prefecture, Naoshima is home to open-air exhibits that appear on the shore, like Yayoi Kusama’s iconic black-dotted yellow pumpkin. Exploring galleries and museums ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio ...

Jessica Kozuka is a Japan-based freelance writer with nearly 20 years of experience. Her work has appeared in publications such as Wine Spectator, Travel + Leisure, CNN Travel, and The Japan Times.

pixel maps in Japan. The company will open pre-orders for a limited time in March 2022. The framed art of EarthBound maps will be available in five different models. Each of them will depict a ...

In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags and suitcases bearing the label “13660.” The same digits are pinned to their clothing, denoting the number their ...

A COSMONAUT SAT for most of the winter on a platform at Kazusa-Murakami station in Chiba, a rural Japanese prefecture next to Tokyo. As they waited for trains, local grandmothers would chat with the ...