An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials ...

Japan might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of Art Deco, but Ezra Pound's 1934 edict to 'make it new' resonated just as deeply there as it did in cultural capitals like ...

That’s the significance of “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945,” a major show now at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach. In addition to hundreds of paintings, ...

If Japan isn’t the country that springs to mind when you think of Art Deco, it’s hardly surprising. The Japanese version of the international style of the 1920s and 1930s has been rediscovered ...

Japanese art deco — what in the world could that be? This is not a unique question. As an exhibition of Japanese art deco objects has traveled around the country during the past year, ...

While my bank balance doesn't allow me to visit anytime soon, the next best thing is to pore over the beautiful objects and ...

Japanese Art Deco. Unbeknown to most Westerners, it was a real thing. The dominant art style from the 1920s through the ’40s took Japan by storm at the time. Yet, to the rest of the art world ...

Japan's love affair with Art Deco during the pre–World War II years is revisited in this survey, which collects posters, furnishings and objects d'art from the ...

More than 30 years have elapsed since the first serious revival of the furniture, objects and paintings from the 1920s and 1930s known as Art Deco, and because each generation needs to discover ...

The results of one such caper can be seen at "Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture: 1920-1945," running through Oct. 28 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Folks in our area are fortunate to be surrounded by some terrific examples of Art Deco — from Cincinnati’s Union Terminal and Netherland Plaza Hotel to Dayton’s AT&T and Liberty Tower ...