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 ...

HERE: JAPANESE ART ALIGHTS IN CAPE ESTATE. If you’re not traveling to Japan this summer, you can still immerse yourself in ...

A glimpse into contemporary Japanese printmaking is currently being given at a temporary exhibition ongoing at the Hambis Municipal Printmaking Museum in Nicosia. Part of celebrations to mark 60 ...

Following the sophisticated ukiyo-e way—the famous Japanese woodblock printmaking tradition–the graphics themselves are so perfect, I feel homesick for places I’ve never once been.

However, during the early 17th century, Japanese artists and publishers began popularizing printmaking techniques unavailable to most people within Japan’s urban centers. These prints depicted almost ...

the provincetown printmakers At Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., through Oct. 15. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org Cate McQuaid can be reached at catemcquaid@gmail.com .

Hokusai plays with perspective—a technique still rare in Japanese printmaking at the time—and introduced Prussian blue, a pigment recently imported from Europe. This deep, almost electric blue ...

Famous Japanese geisha district bans 'out of control' tourists after performers are harassed and assaulted. READ MORE: Akira Toriyama dead: Dragon Ball creator dies bleeding near brain By GINA ...

The Graphic Arts Workshop will honor Bill Wolff for his "lifetime dedication to printmaking" at a reception today from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Suite 305, 2565 Third St. Original etchings, woodcuts ...