A Japanese museum is hosting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, which explores the Dutch painter’s ...

Welcome to Naoshima, a Japanese island located in the Seto Inland Sea. By train and ferry, it's about two and a half hours from Osaka. Sources: Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan Guide Naoshima is ...

Melting under the summer sun, or buried in meters of snow, or at risk of being blown away at the edge of the sea, here are some of the best-known inconvenient art sites and events in Japan.

Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary ... Since the 1989 launch of what has become Benesse Art Site Naoshima – a multi-island art ...

While he started on the first art sites in the early 1990s, it was a 2003 visit to an arts festival in northern Japan that planted the seed for the Triennale. Over the next seven years ...

It is part of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima, spread over three islands.Credit... Supported by By Ted Loos Visuals by Noriko Hayashi Reporting from Naoshima, Japan. On a tree-dotted hill on ...

Japan has one of the world’s most admired architectural ... when in 1949 he won the national competition to build the Hiroshima Peace Center on the site where the first A-bomb was dropped.

Odawara, Japan: You walk along a level daylight-filled corridor, some 300 feet long, one side lined with glass, the other with volcanic stones pockmarked by fossilized insects. Nearing the end ...

It’s not easy. When it comes to looking for a moment of reflection and recalibration, it’s worthwhile to reexamine some of the philosophies and practices rooted in one of the world’s oldest cultures: ...