Yasumasa Morimura may not be an actor, but he knows his way around a costume. The Japanese artist has spent the last 30 years shooting self-portraits dressed as a wide range of historical figures, ...

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. Similar to American ...

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In Yasumasa Morimura’s versions of Manet’s glorious canonical nude Olympia, the artist gazes stoically back at the camera, a carefully placed-hand demurely concealing his modesty, kicking off a pair ...

Seiichi Morimura, a Japanese writer who helped force a reckoning upon his country with his 1981 exposé of Unit 731, a secret biological warfare branch of the Imperial Army that subjected thousands of ...

TOKYO — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy "The Devil's Gluttony" exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War ...

Born within three years of each other, in Osaka in 1951 and New Jersey in 1954, Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman have made an art form out of personifying alter egos for the camera. While working ...

A turning point in one’s life may come unexpectedly. For author Seiichi Morimura, who died on July 24 at the age of 90, it came in the mid-1970s when entrepreneur and filmmaker Haruki Kadokawa came to ...

Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, on view through May 10, 2026, explores how photography has been used throughout time as a medium of expression, ...