None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Through June 16, Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan, japansociety.org; (212) 832-1155.

He lent about 20 scrolls to the current exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, "Zen: Painting and Calligraphy, 17th-20th Centuries." ...

Though the paintings have become famous in the West as the best-known example of Zen Buddhist art, the two hand scrolls originally would not have been seen as particularly spiritual. Instead, they ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

I have always been the scientific one in a family of artists: actors, painters and illustrators. As a child I was sent for art lessons with my sister, who is now an illustrator, but I was too ...

In 13th-century Japan, the most esteemed poems, ceramics and paintings had something fundamental in common: They were all Chinese. A few hundred years later, China’s influence was still strong ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting ...

AWJA (A Wild Juggalo Appears) The paintings in “Where the Juggalo Roam” resulted from Owen’s experience becoming not a full-on juggalette, but what she describes as “a friend of the family.” ...

Takashi Murakami got religion. In “Learning the Magic of Painting,” an exhibition opening this week in Paris, the Japanese artist best-known for colorful, animé-inspired pop art and fashion ...