For a relaxing contrast to Tokyo, head south to Kamakura & Yokohama
Richard Clayderman - Lyphard Melody
For the first time, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will see his Lego portraits of political prisoners and fellow activists on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Ai Weiwei was under house arrest in China when the work was installed at Alcatraz. more...
Maud Lewis, who never had any formal art training, painted the scenes she saw around her home in Nova Scotia. She painted Coastal Scene with Gulls on particleboard in the 1960s. There's no rain in her clouds, no gray in her shadows; Maud Lewis' small paintings are bright with sunshine, and filled with blue skies, crystal snow and calm ...
For a few hours Monday, the bitter face-off between a bull and a girl in New York City got a curious, four-legged interloper: a tiny pug, with one of those legs suggestively raised beside the girl's leg. There was no urine, no caustic caption, but it was clear where the dog's disdain was directed. The statue's placement by sculptor Alex ...