Landscape artists show talent in truck-bed contest in Osaka
Keitora Garden Show 2024, an event in which professional gardeners created garden landscapes on the beds of light trucks (keitora), was held in Nagai Park in Osaka on April 27-28.
Arts
Combining broken tea bowls help heal Kanazawa potter’s broken heart
A Kanazawa potter has been fusing together fragments of tea bowls, which were shattered during the massive Noto Peninsula Earthquake, from three generations of artists — his…
Let’s talk about the Banksy controversy in Manila
The exhibit has prompted discussions filled with complexities and points of contention, tackling the finer points of graffiti, made worse by the exhibition being in BGC where all…
Malaysian illustrator Tuan Nini, based in Romania, shares her art journey
Nini, 37, currently resides in Bucharest, Romania, where she has lived for the past 18 years since she moved there to pursue a fine arts degree at the Bucharest National…
Vietnam’s national soul through paintings
The craft of Dong Ho folk painting is a genre of Vietnamese woodcuts originating from the 17th century in Dong Ho village, Thuan Thanh district in the northern province of Bac…
Embroidery shows vibrant Tibetan techniques
The special technique of Tibetan embroidery renders a three-dimensional effect, as if the designs are about to jump out of the cloth.
The art of Philippine jeepney sign painting
For 30 years, Loloy Montederamos has been painting and selling jeepney sign boards at his stall along Commonwealth Avenue.
Exhibition of ancient bronzes in Hong Kong illuminates culture, history
One year later, more than 150 sets of cultural relics from 15 institutions in eight cities in Henan have been transported south to Hong Kong and are on display in the museum of…
Sculptor Dong: Meet the quiet genius behind Bangkok’s artistic landmarks
Each of his sculptures is aimed at provoking thought among guests and passersby. Each individual will find a different meaning in the meticulous design; there is no right or wrong…
Nepali writer Krishna Bajgai discusses writing journey, role as president of a Nepali literary organisation in UK
For 24 years, I’ve called Europe home. Even during my time in Nepal, I wrote and shared literature. While I’m known as a diasporic writer, not all my works fall under that…