The once-booming market for high-priced art is now experiencing a notable downturn. Auction sales of paintings valued at over ...

Corrigan's paper design became Cushion Lock: a green, recyclable alternative to the plastic bubble wrap we all love to pop. "There's an actual, growing demand," Corrigan said. "Like if you tried ...

Wielding a syringe instead of a brush, the artist injects paint into the plastic bubbles of the ubiquitous packing material, turning it into pointillist works of art ...

A Japanese court found on Monday an artist not guilty of obscenity for displaying figurines modelled on her vagina, signalling a step towards freedom of expression, although the court fined her ...

The Japanese art market’s meteoric rise in the late 1980s was fueled by the “bubble period” of the nation’s economy when asset prices skyrocketed across the board.

Demand for this jiggly feline, popularized on TikTok, is just one example of how social media is collapsing the distance between East Asian trends and a voracious American market. Retail ventures like ...

We'll make the bubble pop in the normal course of things, as all of us—critics, curators, and art lovers of all kinds—decide that today's market darlings are tomorrow's also-rans.

Following its premiere at the 2020 Shanghai International Film Festival, the animated adventure “Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop” was released in Japanese theaters and Netflix on July 22. The ...

A new compilation from Light in the Attic spotlights City Pop, a gently surreal genre that soundtracked Tokyo's tech boom.

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