Just as its traditional tatami mats and sliding doors help contextualize older works no matter the theme of the installation, the very presence of contemporary works reminds us that art in Japan is not just a thing of the past.

WSJ: Flights of Feathered Fancy | Birds in the Art of Japan | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Lee Lawrence

The theme was Ossetian folklore, but its expression was a triumph of contemporary design.

ECONOMIST: The stage of nations

Contemporary fiction does not make heroes out of mad outsiders, even though the theme of alienation is still around.

ECONOMIST: The last outsider