Fondazione Prada’s latest exhibition, ‘Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries’ (until 22 February 2024) examines the cultural and artistic role of the decorative folding screen, an ...

You don’t have to binge-watch classic movies to know that when a starlet wanted to “slip into something more comfortable,” she often stepped behind a decorative folding screen before shedding her ...

Room screens have been around practically forever. The Chinese began using them as far back as 200 B.C. The Japanese adopted them in the seventh century. Europeans embraced them in the 17th. Those ...

This Tuesday, an expert in Japanese art and culture explored the significance of byobu — decorative Japanese folding screens. Hiroyuki Shimatani, the vice executive director of the Tokyo National ...