The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room apartment in northern Tokyo. As a child, he’d accompany his parents on ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Three of these are dedicated solo exhibitions, like “Japanese Art History à la ...

It's now been 20 years since Louis Vuitton dropped its iconic collaboration with the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. And as all things Y2K go around, the collab came back around for an ...

Up there in the pantheon of fashion greats, artist Takashi Murakami’s painterly collaborations with Louis Vuitton – debuted for spring/summer 2003, when Marc Jacobs was at the helm, and officially ...

A day after she won her first-career main-draw victory against China’s Yuan Yue, Japanese teenager Wakana Sonobe still could not believe it. Sonobe is making the most of the wild card she’s been ...

Australian Open junior champion Wakana Sonobe delivered an impressive upset on her WTA main-draw debut, coming from 3-0 down in the second set to defeat No.55-ranked Yuan Yue 6-4, 6-3 in the first ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Melbourne, Jan 25 (IANS) Wakana Sonobe etched her name into the history books by becoming the first Japanese player to win the Australian Open girls' singles title. The 17-year-old ...

Caroline Garcia suffered an early exit at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open, losing in straight sets to Lulu Sun, while 17-year-old Wakana Sonobe produced another superb display, defeating Yue Yuan as ...

For some reason, Focus Features is developoing a reamke of Takashi Miike’s disturbing 1997 cult horror thriller Audition. That movie is seriously still stuck in my head from the first time that I saw ...

Amid the buzz of Singapore Art Week (January 17–26), Sotheby’s kicked off its 2025 Asian auction calendar on January 18 in Singapore.