Museums are often conveniently located in cities or easily reached by public transport. Japan’s famous “art island” however, requires more dedication. In addition to riding a train or driving a car to ...

Japan's Naoshima is a small island that Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has helped transform into a destination for lovers of contemporary art and design You can save this article by ...

NAOSHIMA, Japan — Because I had just emerged from the gloom of a tree-lined approach, the white stones that paved the courtyard seemed impossibly bright. Then, my eyes caught something unexpected: a ...

The Korean artist Lee Ufan worked with Tadao Ando on the Lee Ufan Museum on Naoshima, which was completed in 2010. Ando says the pair had "creative tension," which resulted in creating a "new world" ...

Merging nature, art and architecture, Valley Gallery, the latest build by Tadao Ando on Naoshima, is the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s most conceptual design to date. It marks 30 years since his ...

NAOSHIMA, Kagawa Prefecture--A museum that will open in spring 2025 will be the 10th on this island in western Japan to be designed by world-renowned architect Tadao Ando. The facility, which will be ...

Condé Nast Traveler names Hong Kong, Udaipur and Naoshima among the best places to go in 2026. Here’s why these Asian ...

Many people know Naoshima as the home of the iconic seafront pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama, but the entire island is something of an exhibit itself. The Japanese ‘art island’, as it’s often called, is one ...

The story goes that Tadao Ando had become interested in building through watching carpenters work on his family home as a child. Then he saw a book on Le Corbusier in a second-hand bookshop, he saved ...