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Japan is set to take centre stage in the global art scene with an exciting lineup of immersive art experiences in 2025.

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Significant works from eight Japanese artists who explore these themes will be shown in Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary art from Japan, which opens on Saturday 12 April. SHIGA Leiko When that ...

The psychiatrist Ryutaro Takahashi has spent the past three decades building one of the most impressive and visible collections of contemporary Japanese art, with regular displays in Takahashi’s ...

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Another important art form was raigō, paintings that showed Amida welcoming ... Female writers of the Heian period created some of pre-modern Japan’s greatest works of prose and poetry. But conditions ...