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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Makes a Splash at Auction

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael March 26, 2023March 24, 2023

An edition of the iconic woodblock print broke records when it sold for $2.8M this week.

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Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.

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A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019

by Michael Glover November 30, 2019

Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.

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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Was Only a Drop in the Bucket

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan July 20, 2017July 20, 2017

Already fully accomplished by his fifties in a range of styles, from his sixties Katsushika Hokusai’s paintings and prints begin to accelerate in ambition and sophistication, leaping between styles and subjects.

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An Animated Glimpse of Hokusai’s Life Through His Daughter’s Eyes

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 19, 2016November 4, 2019

A new animated biopic offers insight into the career and work of Hokusai through the life of his daughter, a fellow artist in Edo-era Japan.

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Deleted Boundaries: Japanese Art at the Met

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 9, 2015May 9, 2015

Discovering Japanese Art: American Collectors and the Met is the unsexy title of a luxuriantly sensual exhibit that speaks with uncanny precision to our post-postmodern moment.

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Goblins, Ghosts, and Ghouls in Japanese Prints

by Laura C. Mallonee October 31, 2014October 7, 2016

If you want to hear a terrifying ghost story this Halloween, look to Japan.

Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
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Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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