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Yuko Mohri Wins 2025 Calder Prize

02/07/2026

Yuko Mohri Wins 2025 Calder Prize TheCalder Foundationhas announced multidisciplinary Japanese artistYuko Mohrias the winner of the 2025Calder Prize. The honor is bestowed biannually on “a contemporary artist whose innovative work reflects the continued legacy of Calder’s genius.” Mohri, known …

Метки : искусствонаградаинсталляцияяпониясовременное искусствохудожник

Japanese Museum Refunded for Fake Wolfgang Beltracchi Painting

11/25/2025

A painting determined to be the work of “genius forger” Wolfgang Beltracchi in Japan’s Tokushima Modern Art Museum, it was returned and refunded for 67.2 million yen ($426,000) by an Osaka-based company on Wednesday, November 19, reported the Mainichi. The …

Метки : искусствоподделкавольфганг белтраккияпониямузейрасследование

Okada Museum's Founder Sells 125 Works at Sotheby's

11/24/2025

A total of 125 major works from Japan’s Okada Museum of Art hit the auction block at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on Saturday, achieving white-glove status (meaning all works sold). The sale netted the equivalent of $88 million (plus fees) and …

Метки : искусствоаукционяпонияхокусайутамирамузей

Faked Artworks in Japan Linked to Forger Wolfgang Beltracchi

11/04/2025

A painting long hailed as a Moïse Kisling masterwork, held in the collection of a Japanese company, has been linked to notorious art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi—the latest in a wave of such discoveries shaking Japan’s fine art scene. For years, …

Метки : искусствоподделкаяпонияскандалkislingбельтраки

125 Works from Japan's Okada Museum to Be Sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong

10/25/2025

Japan’s Okada Museum of Art is selling works from its collection because its founder, Kazuo Okada, needs to settle a $50 million legal bill that stems from his long-running feud with casino magnate Steve Wynn. Okada, an 83-year-old billionaire, is …

Метки : японияискусствоаукционколлекцияхокусайсудебные дела

Japanese Sculptor Kunimasa Aoki Wins 2025 Loewe Craft Prize

05/30/2025

LONDON — Japanese sculptor and terracotta artist Kunimasa Aoki has been named the winner of the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize on Thursday evening during an award ceremony in Madrid with a cash prize of 50,000 euros. Selected by a 12-member …

Метки : искусствопремиянаградыскульптураяпониякультурные события

Takashi Murakami Expands Two Major Shows in 2025

05/19/2025

Art megastar Takashi Murakami looks exactly as he does in pictures: somehow animated and meditative at once. When we met, he wore a patched-up denim jacket over a puffer vest and highwater fatigue pants, a pair of round eyeglasses perched …

Метки : артвыставкатакэси муракамикультурное наследиеяпониясовременное искусство

Yasunao Tone Dead: Fluxus Artist and Musician Dies at 90

05/15/2025

Yasunao Tone, a composer, theorist, and artist associated with the Fluxus movement whose experimental music found a cult following, has died at 90. Artists Space, which mounted his first US retrospective in 2023, announced his passing on Tuesday. A representative …

Метки : музыкаэкспериментальное искусствоfluxusяпонияцифровые технологииавангард

Kazuyuki Takezaki (1976-2024)

06/28/2024

Japanese artist Kazuyuki Takezaki, known for his hazy, minimalist landscapes, died on June 22 of a heart attack. He was forty-eight. His death was announced by Misako & Rosen, the Tokyo gallery that represented him, on June 24. Only beginning …

Метки : художникяпонияпейзажиартсмертьгалереятрагедиятокиоmisako & rosen

LARGE ANOMALY DISCOVERED IN CEMETERY NEAR PYRAMIDS OF GIZA

06/05/2024

A team of researchers from Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics and Japan’s Higashi Nippon International University and Tohoku University have discovered an unusual L-shaped structure between roughly one and a half and six and a half feet …

Метки : археологияаномалиякладбищеисследованиеегипетяпонияпирамидыструктураоткры

Yuko Mohri to Represent Japan at Venice Biennale

05/04/2023

Kanagawa-born artist Yuko Mohri, known for her installations and sculptures centering “phenomena” that continually shift according to various conditions such as their environments, has been chosen to represent Japan at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20–November 24, …

Метки : японияхудожникканагаваинсталляциискул

Nalini Malani Wins 2023 Kyoto Prize

05/11/2023

The Inamori Foundation in Japan has revealed the winners of this year’s Kyoto Prize. Established in 1984, the award is given in recognition of lifetime achievement and is the country’s highest private honor, its equivalent of the Nobel Prize. It …

Метки : японияинаморикиотская премиянобелевская

Vija Celmins, Olafur Eliasson, and Diébédo Francis Kéré Win Praemium Imperiales

03/17/2023

Latvian American artist Vija Celmins has been named a winner of Japan’s 2023 Praemium Imperiale Award for painting while Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson received the honor for sculpture, and Burkinabé-German architect Diébédo Francis Kéré received the accolade for architecture. The …

Метки : художникинаграда "praemium imperiale"японияживопись