Only 5 percent of the artists represented are from Kanazawa—a region of just under 462,000 people—although 53 percent are Japanese artists and 63 percent are Asian. That balance will likely shift over ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

Early patterns were either copied from or highly influenced by the hand-painted Chinese export porcelain imports that had adorned Britain's finest dining tables since the 17 th century. As production ...