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…

by Bianca Bosker from New York Times article, April 3, 2017 WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugim…

San Francisco Asian Art Museum explores impact of kimono on global fashion On view from Feb. 8 through May 5, …

NEW YORK TIMES:   The tidying guru is heir to a long tradition: Japan marketing itself as spiritual foil to a …

Dianne recalls her spring 2018 visit to her second home, Kyoto. Today we merged with a few of the thousands of…

by Amy Katoh After 43 years of Blue & White, my eyes only see BLUE. And it may well be that BLUE is taking…

by Steve Beimel Hiroshi Sugimoto inspires me. He is an artist of many forms and his exceptional eye and minima…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, the famous novelist, wrote an essay entitled In Praise of Shadows. He laments the passing…