The pale, porcelain skin of Ayako Rokkaku’s petite hands brightens the navy blue ceramic tea cup held in her palms. For nearly two decades, the artist has used her hands instead of brushes, dipping ...

Japanese American abstract artist Yoko Izu opens with exhibit ‘The Space Between’ at Maiden Lane Gallery at the YWCA in Kingston , NY Japanese American abstract artist Yoko Izu opens exhibit ‘The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Drawn by an expansive canvas for creative expression, Japanese artists created some of their most glorious and monumental masterworks for folding screens. Aesthetically beautiful, ...

Toshihisa and Junko Yoda and their son, Yoichiro, have been making art in a 4,000-square-foot space on Mercer Street for 35 ...

Everything has its beauty, but not every one sees it. — Confucius. “THERE are cases,” says the critic Moto-ori, “in which a precise reproduction of a thing as it is in nature produces a bad picture ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...