A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...

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 ...

Portrait of a Gaofeng Yuanmiao, 1238 - 1295. Chūan Kinkō (mid-15th century) Japan, Muromachi period, 1392-1568 Ink on paper. H x W (image): 58.4 x 37.4 cm. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of ...

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 ...

To walk through “None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings From the Gitter-Yelen Collection,” one starts in the middle and proceeds to move both forward and backward in time. The exhibition at the Museum of Fine ...

Right now at the Japan Society Gallery in New York, a rare exhibition is on view dedicated to Zen paintings from the collection of esteemed collectors Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter. Titled “None ...

Detail of Hakuin Ekaku’s “Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge” (18th century), which is considered one of the best examples of zenga painting outside Japan. (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The ...