The private galleries and curiosity shops of London and Paris were flooded with Japanese ... one traditional art form was, in retrospect, conspicuous by its absence – woven bamboo baskets.

One of the objects that catches your eye in “Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection,” which just opened at the Metropolitan Museum, is not what you might have expected to see at a show of ...

The Japanese baskets, woven from thin strips of bamboo, come in a huge ... Show Us Your Wall is an occasional column focusing on the art of collecting. Getting Hands On With Infrastructure ...

‘Tanabe Chikuunsai IV is a one-of-a-kind artist in the Japanese bamboo art scene,’ says his gallerist Philippe Boudin. ‘He is continuing a tradition but imbuing it with an avant-garde approach and ...