Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...

During the Edo period (1603-1868), the government of Japan ruled its people through a strictly enforced social hierarchy. Within this structure, most forms of self-expression were banned entirely or ...

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History and Significance -- Tools and Materials for Printing -- Washi, Japanese Handmade Paper -- Creating a Print Step by Step -- New Directions in Mokuhanga -- Appendix 1: Suppliers and Supplies -- ...

"Each block is made from 100 year old mountain cherry." This isn't a new video to enjoy, but it's certainly worth watching anyway and might inspire artistic minds. Thanks to recent "unintentional ASMR ...

The social landscape of color printmaking: Japan and beyond / Chelsea Foxwell -- Crypto/chromo: color and the reproduction of images / Anne Leonard -- The virtuoso printmakers of eighteenth-century ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Prints are having ...

For the first time in 25 years, the Museum of Fine Arts has called home every last one of its 35 Claude Monet paintings. "Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression,” which opened Saturday, explores the ...

DENVER — A striking tapestry ripples and swells from the gallery wall to illuminate layers of emerald, indigo, and violet hues that appear poised to spill on the floor and engulf the viewer. If ...