A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

Left: Sengai Gibon “Kanzan and Jittoku” (late 18th or early 19th century), hanging scroll; ink on paper (courtesy Japan Society’s Gitter-Yelen Collection); middle: Nakahara Nantenbō “Monk Procession” ...

So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

Introduction: Hakuin in Japanese Zen history -- Life in art, art in life: biographical influences in Hakuin's painting and calligraphy -- Buddhist, Shinto, and folk deities -- Old dragons, new dragons ...

To walk through “None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings From the Gitter-Yelen Collection,” one starts in the middle and proceeds to move both forward and backward in time. The exhibition at the Museum of Fine ...