Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

Experience the delicate process of making Japanese paper, a skill passed down through generations. A gentle craftsman, deeply connected to nature, blends traditional techniques with a deep respect for ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

In 1969, the New York couple Philip and Lynn Straus celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary by acquiring Salome, a ...

The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...

Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." ...

In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression.