Review: Pure Form, Art Gallery of South Australia. Japanese art post the second world war is infinitely fascinating. At a time when the country was under Allied occupation and Japan had paid a high ...

A new museum dedicated to Satsuma Yaki, a traditional Japanese ceramic art form originating in what is now Kagoshima ...

Editor’s Note: Artist Takashi Murakami is CNN Style’s latest guest editor. He has commissioned a series of features on identity. Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy ...

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. A recently acquired work, "Fuka" by Japanese ceramic ...

From Neolithic fire vessels to gold-repaired tea bowls, the Met traces the unbroken thread between ancient clay and contemporary life. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art In 2026, as wellness ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...

Photo of Kamoda at home in Mashiko from 1974 with pots featuring his trademark red-green-white swirls set out before him, on p195 of Aoki Hiroshi, ed., Kamoda Shōji (Inshōsha, 2004). MINNEAPOLIS — ...

The exhibition “Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan” includes more than 100 porcelain and stoneware vessels that vividly represent an era of highly diverse and accomplished ceramic production in ...

When Japanese American artist Jun Kaneko was first approached by Portland Japanese Garden staff to host an exhibition, he didn’t respond to them for weeks on end. “I had it on my table for about two ...

In Kato Tsubusa’s 3-foot-tall sculpture, “Object,” you can feel the ceramist stretching, slicing and pinching the thick slabs of white porcelaneous clay that rise into a soaring, ragged peak—and sense ...