The Japanese woodblock prints depicted scenes from history, folk tales, beautiful women, sumo wrestlers, landscapes featuring ...

Panels on Australian politics, 80s classic flicks and existentialist theatre, no one can say Canberra doesn't have it all.

The desire to pass on knowledge spurred the evolution of books made of washi paper. Artisans carry on the trade of binding ...

Artists include Japanese multidisciplinary artist Aki Inomata, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, who is of mixed Malaysian, Indian and ...

An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional woodblock prints and paintings) and crafts, ...

The comical and spooky show — based on Katsushika Hokusai’s incomplete ukiyo-e print series ... whose lives were often ...

Growing up in Japan in the 1930/40s, his reference points were 17th to 19th century ukiyo‑e woodblock prints (Edo period). But moving to the US opened his eyes to a global culture – one that was ...

At the height of a measles pandemic in 1862, a genre of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as “hashika-e” (literally, measles pictures) disseminated a mountain of gossip and hearsay. One bit of ...

Hokusai studied under Katsukawa Shunshō and started out as your standard ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) painter of beautiful upper-class women and kabuki actors, such popular art ...