When Japan opened up to the world in the middle of the 19th century, Western merchant ships were quick to return home with exotic art from the once reclusive nation. The private galleries and ...

Bamboo is the culinary delight of pandas . . . and the shoots are palate-pleasers for humans. Bamboo can be sliced and molded so we can plank our floors with it, or make fabrics ready to wear . . . or ...

Some of the sculptures in “Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art” at the Bowers Museum are so uniform and outwardly perfect that they appear manufactured, not handmade. Others are twists of ...

“Panda candy” — that’s what the National Zoo’s bamboo procurement team told Christian Ostermann he was growing in his yard. Though more difficult to harvest than the other two kinds of bamboo growing ...

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 Japanese ...

The exhibition "Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art" offers an antidote, full of intriguing objects that ask nothing more than to be admired for their beauty and human ingenuity. As an ...

Bamboo is one of the most potent symbols in Chinese culture, representing longevity, durability and flexibility and it has long been associated with moral integrity. Thus, the art of carving bamboo ...

In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...

Houston, Texas, November 15, 2016—Asia Society Texas Center is pleased to announce Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art, an exhibition exploring the innovative shape bamboo art has taken in ...

The e-stationery store debuts a kid-friendly bamboo wall art collection. Cute and eco-friendly: That’s a combination we love, which is why we’re excited about Paper Culture‘s new bamboo wall art ...

Editor's Note: To mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of China's reform and opening-up, China Daily is featuring a series of stories on grassroots newsmakers. This is the first in the series.