On Saturday, June 21, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center are celebrating this summer’s must-see ...

The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...

The gist of a scene or place can subtly alter our very sense of being, an affecting quality captured by Monet’s paintings ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Hokusai brought to life a monumental wave that would become a worldwide icon. Behind this print lies a history of artistic ...

John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...

the aesthetic of these woodblock prints was considered by the West as quintessential Japanese art. It is a notion that still persists today. The obsession with ukiyo-e and specifically Hokusai’s ...

From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures, Japanese artists have created monumental pieces that have transformed the world of art. These famous ...

Japanese traditional woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e ... Artists like Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) became masters ...