Seventy years after the King of the Monsters first emerged from the depths of the Pacific, Godzilla returns to Tokyo by way ...

"Choreography of the Unsaid" features abstract painting from Scott Farrell ... Inspired by ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the genre of bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"), the self-taught ...

Born into "a low-ranking samurai family" in Edo (now Tokyo), Hiroshige became renowned for his "lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints ... and essentially abstract" imagery to represent ...

The expertly crafted prints are made using traditional techniques, providing an authenticity that complements their pop-culture value. Japanese traditional woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e ...

The heart of the exhibition are pieces on loan from the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, Italy, including 53 paintings and woodblock prints by the masters of ukiyo-e, a major ...

How much do we really know about Hiroshige? Thanks to the medium of mass-produced woodblock prints, his masterful, uniquely exquisite designs spread rapidly, becoming widely beloved throughout his ...

This exhibition offers a smartly curated, high-quality overview of the era that includes hanging and horizontal scrolls but is dominated by multicolor woodblock prints, which were produced by the ...

Subtlety is out. Maximalism is in. The understated tank top has been benched, replaced by prints brimming with rainbow coral, schools of fish and more sea creatures than a Little Mermaid musical ...

But peer past those wonders, since immortalized odes and ukiyo-e woodblock prints, to find Gero, a quiet onsen town in Gifu prefecture with the placid, pastoral charm of a Studio Ghibli movie.

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