Apollo
Nav toggle
What's on

What is Japanese Painting?

Adachi Museum of Art, Japan

NOW CLOSED

Some people may think that Japanese painting is difficult, serious and conventional. This exhibition will provide the viewer with basic knowledge about Japanese painting, displaying modern Japanese painting masterpieces. The ‘teaching materials’ will be works by Yokoyama Taikan, Takeuchi Seiho, Uemura Shoen and Kaburaki Kiyokata, who were great masters of the modern Japanese art world. Read more.

Event website

Current Issue

May 2021

In the news

A specially designed vehicle transports the mummy of King Seqenenre Taa from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the new Museum of Egyptian Civilization on 3 April 2021.

In Egypt, a motorcade of mummies says more about the modern nation than the ancient past

The recent move of the royal mummies in Cairo was a made-for-TV extravaganza

Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up? The effigy above the playwright’s grave in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Is this what Shakespeare really looked like?

A dumpy effigy in a church in Stratford-upon-Avon has been mocked for centuries, but new research claims it’s the most accurate likeness of the playwright there is

Most popular

  • google_a
  • comments
  • Recent

Podcast

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mohamad Hafez

The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future

Art news daily

Five artist collectives – and no individuals – shortlisted for Turner Prize

Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022

The week in art news – Florida makes toppling statues a felony

Latest Comment

How to cope with Stendhal syndrome when it strikes

The celebrity horse that’s putting Napoleon in the shade

If Fleet Street isn’t safe from demolition, where in London is?

© 2021 Apollo Magazine
22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
Site maintained by Creode