Photo: Hannah Mjølsnes. Thirty years ago, Yoshitomo Nara was a young Japanese artist living in Germany emerging on the international art stage. Today, Nara is one of the world’s most famous ...

Learn more Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan) is an internationally renown contemporary artist. He is known for depicting small children and animals in solitary settings, and works in ...

She’s since built a social media community of “mutuals”, a follow-for-follow type of friendship, around his art that’s centered around the familiar face of Nara’s recurring girl character.

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

NARA--A special two-part exhibition is being held at the Nara National Museum here that traces the 1,400-year history of Buddhist art in Japan through 246 artworks, of which 13 are national treasures.

Nara Prefecture is home to ancient capitals ... Our first design is deeply entwined with "shodo," the expressive art of Japanese calligraphy that uses ink and a brush.

Nara's personal history with disaster relief ... it at least offers a way for art to play a small but meaningful role in disaster relief-if only as a reminder that culture and commerce can ...