In addition to his well-known passions for hockey, world cinema and cowboy poetry, George Gund III loves Japanese Zen art. Over the past 25 years, the peripatetic arts patron who owns the San Jose ...

How do you make an artwork sing? Let your unconscious mind do it. That’s the message of an alluring show at the Japan Society. By Will Heinrich Two longtime painters recently told me how joyful their ...

In the 18th century, enlightenment had almost opposite meanings in East and West. To Europeans it meant release by reason from superstition, that is, from religion and the burden of the past. In Japan ...

Here's the press release: Courtesy The New Orleans Museum of ArtHotei's ink on paper drawing 'Sound of One Hand (late).' The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Organized ...

"This volume publishes Yukio Lippit's lecture of the same title, held at the Getty Center on 23 September 2014." "Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting examines the emphasis in Zen ...

I have always been the scientific one in a family of artists: actors, painters and illustrators. As a child I was sent for art lessons with my sister, who is now an illustrator, but I was too ...