“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...

What is Kintsugi pottery? Come and learn from Alex Welsh as she describes Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Rather than hiding brokenness, Kintsugi enhances ...

SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Naoko Fukumaru found the art of kintsugi at a moment when she'd least expected to find it. She'd ...

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Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

Takashi Murakami is on a roll. His next venture is curating an exhibition in New York featuring three local artists. We met up with the ceramicists to chat about their work and upcoming show. Last ...