When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...

Houston, Texas, November 15, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to announce Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art, an exhibition exploring the innovative shape bamboo art has taken in ...

One of the objects that catches your eye in “Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection,” which just opened at the Metropolitan Museum, is not what you might have expected to see at a show of Japanese ...

Some of the sculptures in “Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art” at the Bowers Museum are so uniform and outwardly perfect that they appear manufactured, not handmade. Others are twists of ...

LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...

Driving along Miracle Mile in the heart of Museum Row, it's easy to miss Akio Hizume's bamboo Fibonacci Tunnel on the patio of the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM). But if you stop to take a look, ...

Blooms and Bamboo is the latest exhibit to open at Longwood Gardens. The exhibit is a first-of-its-kind creation for Iemoto Akane Teshigahara, who has never built a Sogetsu piece of art this large ...

While the Museum of Fine Arts boasts the greatest collection of Japanese art outside of Japan, neither gallery space nor funding at present are anywhere near adequate to the task of displaying the ...

This traveling exhibition, which first showcased at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2017, brings to Oita a selection of Japanese bamboo objets d'art originally amassed by collectors ...

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will present TAKE AKARI: BAMBOO LIGHTS, an exhibition featuring illuminated bamboo installations curated by Japanese bamboo craftsman Akihiro Mashimo. The ...