Whistler originally painted this screen for his patron, the Liverpool shipping magnate, F. R. Leyland, but instead kept it for his own studio. The scene is an impression of London and the River ...

with the screen in the background. UMFA hosted an Obata retrospective in 2018, which featured works from throughout his career — including watercolors he painted when he and his family were ...

Above: LA designer Courtney Applebaum deploys an ebony screen to add drama to a monochromatic space. Above: A room spotted on ...

These glittering Japanese painted screens – a genre known as "rakuchû rakugai-zu" or "scenes in and around Kyoto" – are extraordinary documents of everyday life in the 17th century Japanese city.