‘Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print’ is on display until 30 August 2026, and is accompanied by a Japanese zen karesansui garden in the Artist’s Garden behind the gallery, which is ...

The super-producer and analogue aficionado praises the "messed up" sound of the PPG Wave 2.3, one of the few digital synths ...

Almost a decade later, the curtain went up first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh for the world premiere of this brand-new work, the third collaboration between Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross. A ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...

There are strong performances and much to admire in Dai Fujikura and Harry Ross’s opera about the Japanese artist, but it feels strangely inert ‘I might become the art myself,” sings the artist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Wave, a new opera by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura - Mihaela Bodlovic The action begins slowly with Hokusai’s death, ...

He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera Opera has inspired ...

Next time the little blue wave emoji pops up on your screen, it’s worth taking a moment to ponder its origins and how it could possibly have come to inspire an opera. In a sense, it’s not the wave ...

The holidays are here, which for most of us means eggnog, twinkle lights, Christmas carols and other seasonal delights. But, for the cruise industry, the holidays signify something else entirely—the ...

There are some works of art that even the most uncultured philistines of today’s culture can recognize. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” Munch’s “The Scream,” and of course, da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.” And on ...

In the last column, we explored how Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” incorporated Western techniques and came to symbolize artistic exchange between East and West. In this article, we will examine how the ...