WHAT: Estimated pre-sale to bring $5,000 to $10,000, an almost 48-inch high Japanese bronze sculpture of a samurai archer soared to $23,700 last month at James D. Julia in Maine. The fierce figure is ...

From towering Star Wars sculptures and a 100-meter-long snow slide to food and parties, the annual Sapporo Snow Festival has long been a major tourism magnet for Japan’s northernmost prefecture of ...

A large polka-dotted pumpkin sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was swept out to sea today from its usual perch in a park in the southwestern Japanese city of Naoshima. Videos of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ARTnews has reached out to Kusama’s gallery representation to learn more about the conservation status of the artwork. This isn’t ...

Though not as small as the typical Faberge jeweled item, the effect of the Japanese fiber pieces is that of a group of miniatures. It's an assembly of small, exquisitely crafted objects, each of which ...

An exhibition about Japan’s history of censoring art at the 2019 Aichi Triennale has been closed after just three days—due to censorship. The organizers of the trienniale shut down the exhibition ...

You've seen athletes depicted in stone statues. But how about snow? At the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, among the sculptures at the festival is none other than Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei ...