Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Lisa Houck, left, a New England artist who will soon be moving to Maine, has ...

Lucasfilm is teaming up with Run’a, a Japanese curio manufacturer, to create traditional woodblock prints featuring the beloved characters of Star Wars giving the sci-fi film enterprise a touch of a ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Inspired by our Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited exhibition, join us for a three-class series to learn the art and skill of creating block prints. Participants will create a ...

When Cina He, MCAS ’25 and LSEHD ’25, arrived at her grandparents’ home in Guilin, China, at the end of her junior year at Boston College, she witnessed the aftermath of a severe flood that altered ...

Utagawa Hiroshige, "Ryōgoku Ekōin and Moto-Yanagibashi Bridge" (1857) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) is ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Key pieces by local woodblock artist Blue Butterfield are now on display at ...

A woman visits an exhibition of Shizhuzhai woodblock at the provincial art museum in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 31, 2018. Over 100 pieces of woodblock printing works were displayed ...