A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

From the upper reaches of a hanging scroll, a dragon swoops down to rest its head on the lap of a haloed man, pinned into submission by the man’s stare. Time has muted the pigments, but a close look ...

So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...

Ever since the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens reopened in June 2020 after the pandemic forced it to close for a few months, the garden’s curator Heather Grzybek said the number of visitors it ...

Zen gardens, or Japanese rock gardens, are a serene expression of minimalist beauty. These gardens emphasize simplicity and ...

If anything unites the motley assortment of Buddhist figures on view in the Freer Gallery of Art’s “Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan,” it’s an unapologetic, irreverent spirit. Take Fugen, a ...

His research interests in Japanese art included Japanese ink painting of the medieval period, the arts of Zen Buddhism, Heian and Kamakura narrative painting, Sino-Japanese cultural history of the ...

The monks who built the world’s most famous Zen gardens weren’t sitting quietly beside them, gazing into the distance. They were on their knees, raking gravel into careful patterns before dawn. The ...