Violence against children may be a reality in too many schools, but it's rare to see it portrayed in art—a taboo violated utterly in Kazuo Umezu's horror manga The Drifting Classroom, which remains as ...

Kazuo Umezu, the famous Japanese manga artist often known as "the god of horror," has died at the age of 88. His work on classics like The Drifting Classroom, My Name is Shingo, Cat Eyed Boy, and ...

This suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In “Crooner,” Tony Gardner, a washed-up American singer, goes sloshing through the canals of ...

Never Let Me Go is the sixth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for The Remains of the Day-- a book of quiet desperation in a British household, brought to life on the screen by actor Anthony Hopkins ...

Christie's announced the lineup for its Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Autumn Auctions, which brings together an outstanding selection of works by some of the world's most important artists.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, from Toronto to São Paulo, painters began rejecting figuration and perspective, embracing colour, scale and line, in pursuit of a more expressive and immediate ...

Origins: As sports card collectors began assembling sets from packs of 2008 Topps baseball cards released in February of that year, quite a few of them were puzzled by the first entry in Topps' ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro didn't set out to become a novelist. In the 1960s, he came to San Francisco from England with his acoustic guitar, hoping to make it as a singer-songwriter.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, the awarding Swedish Academy said Thursday. Born in Japan and raised in Britain, Ishiguro is best known for the novels “The Remains of ...