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The Art Gallery of New South Wales’ (AGNSW) new Sydney International Art Series ‘Japan Supernatural’ is the first exhibition of its kind in Australia, showcasing more than 180 works from over three centuries of Japanese art.

Directors’ forewords in exhibition catalogues are usually perfunctory affairs but there was one line in Michael Brand’s comments in the Japan Supernatural volume that caught my eye.

In a drab outer suburb of Toyko, a factory wall is dominated by a mock-up of a giant mural.

While Asia is quickly becoming a hub for contemporary artists, you’d never know it walking into San Francisco’s stoic Asian Art Museum.

"Japanese culture has become too clean. Our five senses are too blunt," says artist Fuyuko Matsui in a recent interview at the Yokohama Museum of Art.

The tall and strikingly good looking Fuyuko Matsui confirmed her status as the nation's most media-friendly artist when she was included as one of just 10 judges

Watercolour I: Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to the first