Kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese pottery repair technique, turns broken ceramics into art using gold and lacquer while carrying a deeper message about healing, resilience and imperfection.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Dallas and saw the Dallas Museum of Art’s impressive new show on Van Gogh’s olive tree paintings. A short walk from the DMA, the Crow Museum of Asian Art is a jewel box ...
Editor’s Note: Artist Takashi Murakami is CNN Style’s latest guest editor. He has commissioned a series of features on identity. Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy ...
Pune Times Life.Styled Club brought the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi to the city through a workshop that invited ...
Introduction / Patricia Ferguson -- 1. Pots, prints and politics in China? Some examples from the 14th to the 17th centuries / Yu-Ping Luk -- 2. A fourteenth century Longquan pot with a dual purpose / ...
Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...
On June 6, Ackland Art Museum opened its current exhibition, “Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists From Japan.” The exhibit was organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and comes from the major ...
Introduction : transformations of vision -- Transient symbols -- On the circulation of metaphor -- Zen mountains, Zen water -- Cracks -- Pottery landscapes -- The tea bowl and the toilet bowl -- ...