A web directory focusing on art, artists and galleries including international listings. Find links to a host of art styles including peoples, prehistoric, watercolour, wallpaper, wallpapering, websites, wood, welsh, oil, Illustration, figurative, encaustic, landscapes, impressionism drawing and pastels.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Opened in 1995. Art of the last 50 years. Interesting photos of the building itself; only a few pics from the exhibits, and the text for those is Japanese. http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/
Kyoto National Museum
Ceramics, sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, and metalwork. The masterworks section contains both good enlargements and good explanatory text.
Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo)
From the prehistoric to the contemporary, with an emphasis on works with an element of naivete. The Mukai Junkichi Annex celebrates the life and work of a 20th century painter whose main passion was recording the thatched roof farmhouses of Japan.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Freer Gallery of Art
The Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art: the National Museums of Asian Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Well organized, easy to navigate, and contains a plethora of information.
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts
Includes paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metal, wood, and Buddhist art.
