Call her works playful. Call them sensuous. Call them decorative, even, and ceramic artist Yuriko Matsuda won’…
New York Times article: Designer for a Postwar World by Amy Qin NAHA, Japan — He has been called the “emperor …
From ArchDaily by María Francisca González Arata Isozaki, the Japanese architect and winner of the Pitzker Pri…
By Ben Dooley, New York Times article Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and…
At age 91, artist Toshiko Okanoue is very much in the spotlight. An influential publisher just released a book…
Text and Photos by Alice Gordenker Masao Nagata of Nagata Indigo Dyeing Works (長田染工場) in Izumo, Shimane demons…
During an artist’s residency that I had in Venice in 2015, I went to see Sugimoto’s Glass Tea Hous…
節分 setsu (season) + bun (break) Setsubun is literally a break between seasons and occurs several times during …
A 26-minute video celebrating a project of the late Shiro Kuramata, one of the great designers of the 20th cen…
