Japan’s T-shaped unisex garment cut from a single bolt of silk isn’t a symbol or a relic. At the Met, it’s the vibrant feature of an international fashion conversation. By Will Heinrich I’d always ...

Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean and translated by Adriana Hunter is published by the Other Press and available online. Over 50 exhibitors, ...

Fashion, once shunned by serious museums, has in recent decades seemed to overtake them. But despite the wealth of source material, stellar exhibits are hard to come by: For every “Savage Beauty,” ...

On Tuesday, the museum issued a statement apologising for offending some visitors with their “Kimono Wednesday” event where museum-goers were encouraged to try on a kimono, a traditional Japanese ...

In 1876, Claude Monet completed a painting of his wife Camille, dressed in an elaborately designed kimono and sporting a blonde wig to emphasize her Western identity—art historians consider the work ...

"Whose outfits are these?" is a question you might ask when viewing tagasode (someone's sleeve) painted screens, which feature kimonos lined up and hung on racks as their subjects. The idea behind ...

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 3-4, "Catalogue of American Paintings," 1970. Elzea, Rowland, and Elizabeth Hawkes, "John Sloan: Spectator of Life ...

Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 4. Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old ...