Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and “technological ...

Plastic gods that wobble on dashboards, velvet tigers stretched across living room walls, calendar prints with glitter-stamped Gods — the imagery once mocked as “tacky” or “cheap” is strutting back ...

LOS ANGELES — It could be argued, maybe not by snooty art historians but certainly by congenitally low-brow connoisseurs of kitsch, that to be famous in America, truly iconic, one’s likeness must be ...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Sin rodeos traces Betsabeé Romero’s practice and includes new works that reflect upon several artists from the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The works featured are prints, paintings ...

“If people continue to live in stuffy homes,” says Louis Wijsenbeek, director of The Hague’s Municipal Museum, “it is hard to see how a man of use to us or to the world can develop.” Last week, in an ...

Kitsch originates in German and alludes to ornamentally gaudy or overly sentimental qualities. Kitsch can take the forms of cliché expressions, mass-produced items, or superficial emotions. To some ...