This 19th-century Japanese screen of the Floating World, at Harvard Art Museums, depicts Tokyo’s notorious pleasure district, but it’s likely all imagined.

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

The new spring-semester exhibition at Hope College’s Kruizenga Art Museum invites visitors to journey back to the 19th century and travel a legendary Japanese thoroughfare. Opening on Friday, Jan. 14, ...

Mary Cassatt is an American impressionist known for her radical take on art with feminine subjects. The exhibit called "Mary ...

View JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century Ink, colors and gold on paper, Daimyo shunga scroll, eight couples in various erotic positions including a woman smoking a pipe, their kimono untied ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Beauty, serenity and the idealization of nature ...

In 19th-century Japan, two sumo wrestlers faced down dozens of firefighters in a brawl so epic it inspired a Kabuki play. But the story of what really happened—and who the heroes are—is all a matter ...

Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the British Museum says, “Our new partnership with Outernet represents another exciting chapter in how we can share art and culture beyond the Museum’s walls. By ...

Opening Oct. 26, the National Museum of Asian Art will unveil “Japanese Art from the Collection,” a reinstallation of its permanent collection of objects from Japan with over 60 works ranging from ...