AMSTERDAM — Originality in art is a slippery criterion. Imitation seems antithetical to it. Yet art never exists outside its context of conventions, traditions, and antecedents. Imitation lurks even ...

"I envy the Japanese" Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. In the exhibition on which this film is based - VAN GOGH & JAPAN at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - one can see why. Though Vincent van ...

Though he never traveled to Japan, Van Gogh claimed that all of his work was based ‘to some extent’ on the work of its artists. We spoke to Nienke Bakker, the curator of a new exhibition Van Gogh & ...

In 1854 America forced Japan, which had sealed itself off from the West two centuries before, to open its borders to trade. Over the next few decades, Japanese art flooded European markets. For the ...

FREDONIA – The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present Van Gogh & Japan, a special cinematic exploration of how the revered artist’s was influenced by Japanese art, today at 7 p.m. as part of its Art & ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Japan’s opening to international trade in the 1850s after centuries of self-imposed isolation set off a craze for all things Japanese among European and North American collectors, ...

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opens an exhibition this week showing the influence of Japanese art on the 19th century Dutch painter. “Japanese Season” features artifacts from Japan similar to what ...

Sompo Holdings, a Japanese insurance company that owns Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, is being sued by heirs of the oil painting’s former owner, claiming their relative was forced to sell the artwork ...

Van Gogh , the group 1-winning son of American Pharoah , has been retired from racing and is due to begin his stallion career in Japan in 2022, East Stud in Hokkaido has announced. Owned by the ...

The 19th-century painter Edmund Walpole Brooke occupies a tiny, but durable place in art history. Not because of his own work, but because he offers a tantalizing look into the tragic last days of ...