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Origami is the Art of Papercraft - this has no audio - because you are supposed to look at it - and not be distracted - (by the kids)

The recent exhibition at London’s Tate Modern museum, “Pop Life: Art in a Material World,” features in its final room an unusual collaboration between McG, one of Hollywood’s biggest commercial directors, and Takashi Murakami, Japan’s king of pop art: a four-minute film starring actress Kirsten Dunst singing a cover of “Turning Japanese” by the rock band The Vapors.

It was with Gertrude Stein in Paris that Picasso made his famous snub to Japanese art. As Stein’s brother Leo showed him his collection of engravings, the young Picasso confided to his hostess: “He is very nice your brother, but like all Americans he shows you Japanese prints. Moi, je n’aime pas ça.”

While Kiyoshi Yamashita — the wandering artist depicted in the famous television series “Hadaka no Taisho Horoki” (Travelogue of the Naked General) — is widely known as a gifted Japanese artist with a disability, he is far from being the only one.

Zhu Weibing, Ji Wenyu | People holding flowers (detail) 2007 | The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art.

Allan West is a wonderful Nihonga (traditional Japanese style) painter. He was born in the US and graduated Master of Fine Arts Tokyo University in Japan. He has been working at his Tokyo studio.

December 2009, Berlin art space "Kunstraum Richard Sorge" presents a large exhibition of Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Hiroki Otsuka's paintings and murals, titled "Everything to More".

I haven’t done one of these in a good, long while so I thought it was about that time to bring y’all another one of the City’s uber-talented resident extraordinaires. Previously, I served up the Polish sensation, Przemek; my own cocohime, Miss Mo; and last but never least, my tranny godmother, Anthony.

Born in Sapporo, Watanabe graduated from Nihon University in photography in 1975 and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked producing television commercials. He obtained an MBA from UCLA in 1993, but two years later his earlier interest in photography revived; from 2000 he has worked full time at photography.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has displayed the latest collection of works by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.

The event exhibits Africa, which introduces 'the neglected continent' through the eyes of the photo-documentary pioneer.

The event displays about 100 photographs, which include some of Salgado's upcoming collection, Genesis, Artdaily reported.

As China marks the 60th anniversary of Communist rule, Katie Hill, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Art at the University of Westminster in London, looks at how art has moved from the realm of propaganda to the international marketplace.

Born in Japan, between a Japanese father and a Sri Lankan & Dutch mother, the first 10 years of my life was spent growing up in the city of Yokohama, Japan. Even then, I attended regular after-school classes in art and in music, in particular, the piano.

Against the tradition of bijinga (beautiful women pictures) that runs through Japanese art, there is an antithetical stream that draws attention to a grotesque and timeworn femininity.

UNIQLO is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the iconic video game character Pac-Man by releasing some really cool limited edition t-shirts in honor of the occasion. In collaboration with six artists (both Japanese and international) who created art and graphics inspired by Pac-Man, UNIQLO is selling these t-shirts through UT Harajuku.

A Tokyo poets' group has created a series of satirical political poems to decorate the Shibamata Taishakuten Temple in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, ahead of the upcoming House of Representatives election.