Bunkamura Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Bunkamura Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Augur Auction Charity Auction Event
Augur Auction is an auction event specializing in contemporary art. The next auction "Sale 6" will take place on Sunday, December 14th, together with a charity auction. The auctioneer will be special (...)
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Andrew Wyeth "Emotion and Creation"
With his images of archetypal American landscapes, Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) is probably the greatest representative of American Realism. He started as a watercolorist, and his "drybrush" works possess a (...)
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"John Everett Millais - Giant of the Victorian Age" Exhibition
At the age of 11, John Everett Millais (1829-1896) became the youngest pupil ever to be admitted to the School of Royal Academy of Arts. However, he got soon tired of the classes and the outdated customs (...)
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"CAA-Contemporary Art Auction-Sale.5"
5th edition of Japan's first augur auction dealing in contemporary art! Focusing mainly on contemporary art from Japan and abroad, Augur Auction aims at the rejuvenation of Japan's contemporary art (...)
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Yuji Yamashita "Past, Present and Future of Japanese Art"
This summer at Nadiff sees the art historian Yuji Yamashita giving a series of lectures on Japanese art, its market, environment and future at Bunkamura in Shibuya. 1st lecture: June 28th. The Current (...)
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"Springtime of the Russian Avant-Garde: From Chagall to Malevich" Exhibition
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art opened in 1999 and owns an extensive collection of works by the leading painters of the Russian avant-garde which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. This (...)
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"Space of Roses" Exhibition
This exhibition features the work of Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), court painter to Marie Antoinette and later Josephine Bonaparte, held to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth next year. (...)
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Renoir + Renoir
Father and son, Painter and Film director; Two giants of art, together for the first time in Japan. An exhibition dedicated to the great painter Renoir and the great film director Renoir. Pierre-Auguste (...)
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Albert Anker "Healing Paintings from Switzerland"
Albert Anker, the 19th century Swiss naturalist painter (1831-1910), has been loved by the Swiss people as a national artist, and his works grace the collections of many museums. Although the Swiss-born (...)
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Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as TIFF) has been held yearly since 1985 with the official endorsement of International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) (...)
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"Brilliance of Venetian Painting - From Rennaisance Glory to 18th Century Greatness" Exhibition
Venice, the city built on water that continues to attract visitors from all over the world, was once a thriving hub for eastern trade with a flourishing culture unique to the city. Marco Polo was a Venetian (...)
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"Redon's Black" Exhibition
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is known for his whimsical style, and is one of the representative painters of the French Symbolism movement along with Gustav Moreau from the same period. His print works that (...)
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"Flemish Paintings of the 17th Century from the National Gallery of Prague" Exhibition
In 17th century Flanders, painting arts were reaching an age of maturity. Flanders was a region in the Holy Roman Empire that was ruled by the noted Habsburg family, and had also become a major artistic (...)
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"Modigliani Hébuterne, The Tragic Couple" Exhibition
Amedeo Modigliani, one of the representative artists of the School of Paris, met a talented art student, Jeanne Hébuterne, when he was 32 and she was 18. They started living together, but his health worsened (...)
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"Tiara Dignity and Beauty - The Story of the Tiara" Exhibition
This is the first exhibition held in Japan to focus solely on tiaras, with pieces from European royal families, museums, and numerous jewelry brands, including Chaumet, Mellerio dits Meller, Cartier, Mikimoto, (...)
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"Super Escher" Exhibition
By tricking us with his trompe l'œil pictures, the Dutch artist M.C. Escher invites us into a strange universe. The works displayed here are on loan from the Municipal Museum in The Hague and range from (...)
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19th Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has been held yearly since 1985 with the official endorsement of International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF). This year will mark the 19th (...)
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Toshio Arimoto "Soft Light and Transparent Quiet Surrounds You"
With their beautiful forms and structures that resemble classic oil paintings, the works of Toshio Arimoto continue to be loved by people twenty years after his death. Forty original prints will be on (...)
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"The Age of Picasso and Modigliani" Exhibition
The history of modern art in the 20th century starts at the end of the 19th, when fauvism emerged to replace impressionism. It was the birth of a new age with various new ways of expression. This exhibition (...)
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Kaleidoscope - Created by Light
Traditionally, Kaleidoscopes took the form of paper tubes. However experts of various genres such as glass, wood, terra cotta and jewellery are redefining Kaleidoscopes bringing in unique designs that (...)
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BAS 06: Bunkamura Art Show 2006
The BAS (Bunkamura Art Show) was started under the objective of encouraging and presenting the next generation of young artists. After the first show in 2004 "Landing" and 2005's "Jinko-Rakuen (Artificial (...)
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Emile Galle and the Daum Brothers
116 selected art nouveau masterpieces by Emile Galle and the Brothers Daum from the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, of which most were gifts to the Czar from France.
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Dazzling Pompei - The Last Day of the Ancient Roman City
Wall art, jewelry, sculptures and other treasure unearthed from the area surrounding Mount Vesuvius will be displayed to introduce Ancient Roman art at its best, before disaster struck Pompeii on that (...)
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Alpine Air - Swiss Art inspired by Mountains
The “Alpine Air” exhibition, curated by Beat Wismer and organised in close cooperation by the Aargauer Kunsthaus (Aargau Museum of Fine Arts) in Switzerland and the Bunkamura Museum in Tokyo, focuses on (...)
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The Impressionist Collection of the Pola Museum of Art 2006
The Pola Museum of Art can boast of an extensive collection of 9500 works, both western-style and Japanese, but its mainstay is formed by its more than 400 paintings of the 19th-century impressionist and (...)
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Masterpieces from The National Galleries of Scotland
The National Gallery of Scotland, the principal of a confederation of National Galleries in Edinburg, is known for its superb collection, spanning a history of over 150 years of European Art. This selection (...)
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Gustave Moreau
Drawing inspiration from Greek myths and Bible stories, Gustave Moreau created his own universe in Paris during the late 19th century. This exhibition will consist of his best works as selected by the (...)
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Leonor Fini
Bursting upon the Paris art scene, Leonor Fini expressed her unique gifts in a range of medium including painting, photography, costume design, and film. The 100 works gathered for this exhibition will (...)
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Belgian Symbolism - Reality in the Abyss
Arising in France in the latter part of the 19th century as a reaction to Realism, the Symbolist movement spread throughout the European countries, especially flourishing in Belgium. This exhibition (...)
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Children of the World: Witness for Tomorrow
For this exhibition, photographs of children have been selected from among the works of approximately 200 internationally active photographers, both living and dead, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert (...)
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Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses only began painting seriously when she was in her seventies. Born in a small farming village, her life from childhood on was far from comfortable. Grandma Moses produced about 1,600 paintings (...)
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Pop Art & Co.: The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art
Pop Art was born in England in the 1950s and went on to mass popularity and commercial success in the USA. Shaking the very foundations of the traditional art world, Pop Art expanded the boundaries of (...)
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17th Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival (T.I.F.F.), approved by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPH), has been held since 1985 as one of the 12 major film festivals of the (...)
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Masterpieces from Guggenheim Collection
This exhibition will bring 79 works carefully selected from that rich collection, mostly from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, to Tokyo. Artists represented will include Renoir, van Gogh, (...)





