On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of a shelf marked “WABI-SABI” and stocked with ...

After taking off in America and other countries, the phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ was imported back to Japan as a compound term. In it, in an essay titled, “The Beauty of Irregularity,” Yanagi wrote about the ...

There is a Japanese philosophy — wabi-sabi — that sees the world as impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. Neal Joiner, an art student at Southeast Missouri State University, said he used this ...

The view of the aged cherry tree from Damian Flanagan's window (Damian Flanagan) By Damian Flanagan You sometimes hear of concepts in foreign cultures that you can understand in a kind of vague, ...

Artists from all over the South Coast are taking hands in staging a unique art expo in Margate – the first of its kind in the country. This will take place at the Margate Art Museum during the months ...

Wabi-sabi, the ""Japanese art of appreciating the imperfect, the primitive, the incomplete,"" may be the next big thing in home design and decoration. Although on the surface it may sound like the ...

Some of the 20 plus participating Wabi Sabi artists proudly showing off their paintings in the Margate Art Museum are (from left) Gordon Dinner, Adelé Joubert, Johann du Toit (organiser), Abi Cansdale ...