Artist whose first solo show was a popular and critical success, and who later taught printmaking at Norwich School of Art
December 2021
My best shot
A naked man in a bath with two octopuses: Yushi Li’s best photograph
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything review – radical in every thought and gesture
September 2021
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything review – wonders beyond The Great Wave
Rare black and white sketches by the Japanese genius are magnificent explorations of the human condition
July 2021
‘Boundless invention’: British Museum to show more than 100 unseen Hokusai works
Drawings were for a planned work by The Great Wave’s creator called The Great Picture Book of Everything
September 2018
How Hokusai's Great Wave crashed into Van Gogh's Starry Night
Writer says Dutch painter was influenced by Japanese print he is known to have admired
March 2018
Van Gogh and Japan review – the painter as tortured apprentice
There is no doubting Van Gogh’s reverence for the Japanese masters such as Hiroshige, but his attempts to re-create their calm artistry surely added to his personal torment
December 2017
Observer critics' review of 2017
Laura Cumming’s best art of 2017
There was revolutionary fervour from Russia, dazzling critiques of the American dream, and unforgettable faces…
July 2017
Crouching tiger, hidden hairdo: World Illustration awards – in pictures
Hokusai: the influential work of Japanese artist famous for 'the great wave' – in pictures
May 2017
Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave review – the mastery simply amazes
Anatomy of an artwork
Hokusai’s Kohada Koheiji: the age-old pastime of telling ghost stories
Hokusai Beyond the Great Wave – review: a genius imprisoned by his greatest hit
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Ice cream, flayed statues and The Great Wave – the week in art
Hokusai: the Great Wave that swept the world
Five of the best… new art shows
Hokusai and Graham Fagen: this week’s best UK exhibitions
November 2015
Jonathan Jones on art
Made in Japan: the true birthplace of modern art
The V&A’s new gallery of art by Japanese masters shows how their free, sensual and subversive works revolutionised the west’s way of seeing the world
October 2015
Jonathan Jones on art
No more naughty bits: Japanese erotica gets a prudish update
The erotic Japanese artform shunga has been modernised – using jokey emoji-like icons. It’s proof of our perversely prudish sexual age
July 2014
Jonathan Jones on art
Moving pictures: the amazing paintings that float in mid-air
New York duo Floto+Warner join a long tradition of artists, stretching from Hokusai to Pollock and beyond, who have suspended artworks in mid-air as if by magic, writes Jonathan Jones
February 2014
Jonathan Jones on art
The 10 most apocalyptic floods in art
From photographs of Hurricane Katrina to Monet's impressionistic wasteland, these deluged landscapes capture the destructive power of nature
