Gozo Yoshimasu has been named the inaugural recipient of the Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize

Tokyo’s Immersive Yokai Experience If you yearn to meet Japan’s quirkiest ghosts, now’s your chance! In the land where household goods and old kimonos can take on an afterlife of their own, this Immersive Yokai Experience dishes up vengeful lanterns, stretchy-necked beauties and musical-instruments-bent-on-petty-revenge galore! Each room is a spectacle of projection mapping, with animatedContinue…

Art of Manga at Brooklyn Museum will spotlight more than 600 original works by legendary Japanese manga artists in a landmark exhibition.

Katsushika Hokusai drew tentacled sea creatures in the 1800s. H.P. Lovecraft built a mythology around them in the 1920s. Japanese illustrator Goki Yamada has now put them together in _Thirty-six Views of Evil Gods_ (邪神三十六景), a 128-page art book that inserts Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and other Great Old Ones into every plate of Hokusai's famous ukiyo-e series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" — the…

The Kikuchi Beinnale XI at the Tomo Museum This international ceramics competition only takes place every two years, but when it does, it never fails to knock my socks off. Every single piece is utterly unique and an exquisite example of the ceramicist’s technical mastery, while showcasing an incredibly wide range of styles and techniques.Continue reading "Epic Ceramics Show Returns!"