Art History Who Was Hiroshige, the Artist Behind Japan’s Most Iconic Prints? The master of Japanese prints is admired for exquisite views of his homeland, but a new show at the British Museum ...

Japanese publisher Hanzō is keeping the ukiyo-e tradition alive with unique reinterpretations of traditional woodblock prints that feature popular characters like Doraemon, Crayon Shinchan, and ...

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...

I Walked Japan's Kiso Valley and It Felt Like Stepping Into a Woodblock Print A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Two centuries after The National Gallery’s foundation, and one century since it acquired Sunflowers (1888), Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist in the ...

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

Why Images of Ghosts Have Endured in Japan for Centuries A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints ...

A new exhibit opening in San Francisco links an art form dating back to the era of Samurai to popular modern art, like anime. It captures the centuries of evolution in Japan.

Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it.

Inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, young Vietnamese artists bring a personal touch to their work, creating an artistic interplay between Vietnam and Japan. Thirty-eight works by young Vietnamese ...