The 119th Nitten Exhibition, one of Japan’s largest open-call art exhibitions, is taking place at The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi from October 30 to November 22, 2026. Featuring approximately 3,000 works across five categories—Nihonga (Japanese-style painting), Yōga (Western-style painting), sculpture, crafts and calligraphy—Nitten is one of Japan’s most established art exhibitions. The exhibition…

“BANKSY~GENIUS OR VANDAL?”, the exhibition that has caught the attention of over 300 million people in Moscow, Madrid, Hong Jong, New York and L.A. since 2018, is finally landing in Japan. Banksy Exhibition: Genius or Vandal will be held from December 12, 2021 (Sun) to March 8, 2022 (Tue) at WITH HARAJUKU, located in front…

©︎2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved Grand Hyatt Tokyo is pleased to introduce a new afternoon tea menu in collaboration with Takashi Murakami, one of six artists currently featured in the “STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World” exhibition showing at Mori Art Museum until January 3, 2021. Fiorentina Pastry…

Thomasina Larkin stumbles across a local artist who likes to mix and match. Armed with phat magic markers, acrylic paints and his computer, Shibuya Tadaomi can transform anything that catches his eye into a soulful and lifelike image of robotic funk. Influenced by a childhood spent watching Transformers and Power Rangers, and surrounded by the…