Culture
Art
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International support urged for Ukrainian cultural properties
World Heritage sites and other valuable cultural properties in Ukraine are facing a crisis due to Ru...
May 12, 2022
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Yellow scissors and a tiny world of paper art
Blunt-tip scissors with yellow handles might come to mind for some people in Japan when recalling th...
May 6, 2022
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Seto Inland Sea triennale art festival opens
TAKAMATSU — Art lovers are traveling to the Seto Inland Sea as contemporary artists from Japan and a...
May 5, 2022
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Modigliani paintings grace Osaka museum
OSAKA — Painter Amedeo Modigliani is featured in a special exhibition ongoing at Nakanoshima Museum ...
April 28, 2022
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NYC’s first-ever Japanese heritage parade set for next month
NEW YORK (AP) — People of Japanese descent are gearing up for their first-ever parade in New York Ci...
April 28, 2022
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Le Corbusier-designed museum of art reopens in Tokyo
After a 1½-year-hiatus for renovations, the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) in Taito Ward, Tok...
April 21, 2022
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Artists from Ukraine, Russia confront invasion
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a tremendous impact on the arts, as on many other aspects of...
April 14, 2022
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Hirst’s cherry blossom series in bloom in Tokyo
The first major solo exhibition in Japan of a multidisciplinary artist famous for pickling dead anim...
April 13, 2022
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Printmaker holds exhibition to protest war in Ukraine
Deep sorrow over Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine has driven Takashi Ono, a printmaker from Katsu...
April 7, 2022
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Art museums exploiting IT to attract visitors
“This is the first time that ‘Pond with Water Lilies’ by [Claude] Monet has been shown in Japan,” ex...
April 6, 2022
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Photo exhibition showing solidarity with Ukraine begins in Tokyo
A photo exhibition featuring Ukrainians living in Japan wishing for peace amid Russia’s military inv...
April 4, 2022
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880,000-brick Lego cherry tree in full bloom
NAGOYA — A life-sized cherry blossom tree made from about 880,000 Lego bricks is enthralling visitor...
March 27, 2022
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Kintsugi repair technique enjoys new golden age
Kintsugi, a traditional technique that uses lacquer and gold powder to repair cracked or chipped cer...
March 24, 2022
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Cultural agency wants Japan to host international art fair in 2025
The Agency for Cultural Affairs wants to invite organizers of an international art fair to hold an e...
March 23, 2022
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Look but don’t eat: Real candies make cute accessories
Colorful striped candy balls known as temari-ame and slices of candy with the same image on them, su...
March 11, 2022
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