The National Art Center, Tokyo - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The National Art Center, Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye Exhibition
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996) is one of the representative Australian artists. During her carrer, she produced beautifully innovative works with her unique Aboriginal view of the world. On the other (...)
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"67th Sogen" Exhibition
Location: Exhibition Rooms 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D
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"61th Jigen-Kai" Exhibition
Location: Exhibition Rooms 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D
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"67th Watercolor Confederation" Exhibition
Location: Exhibition Rooms 3A, 3B
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"Modigliani et le Primitivisme" Exhibition
Amedeo Modigliani is known as a representative early twentieth century École de Paris artist who was active in the Montparnasse artist community. However, his interest in the simple rustic forms often (...)
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84th Hakujitsu-kai Exhibition
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"61st Japan Independent" Exhibition
As the title suggests, this exhibition provides every artist with the opportunity to fully exert their own creativity, individuality and humanity, while also aiming at eliminating authoritarianism and (...)
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48th Japan Nanga-in Exhibition
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"Artist File 2008 - The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
The "Artist File" exhibition is a new serial annual show that introduces NACT's view on the direction the art world today. There is no unifying theme to this exhibition, featuring works by 8 artists in (...)
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"11th Japan Media Arts Festival" Winning Works Exhibition
Japan Media Arts Festival has been held every year for the past 11 years in order to encourage talent in multimedia. This year, a record 2,091 submissions from 43 countries around the world were received, (...)
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"Taikan Yokoyama: 50 Years On" Exhibition
This artist was born in 1868, the first year of the Meiji era and enrolled in Tokyo Bijutsu School’s first class ever. He encountered Tenshin Okakura who aimed for the innovation and internationalization (...)
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"Journey - Encounters and Dialogues with Foreign Cultures" Exhibition
This exhibition presents works by 100 artists who participated in the "Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists" which is provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and is now in its 40th (...)
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"Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two Works in Progress" Talk Event
Internationally acclaimed artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, will give a lecture at The National Art Center, Tokyo on Thursday, November 8. In this lecture entitled Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Two Works (...)
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"Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting - Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam" Exhibition
Dutch Genre Painting from the 17-19 century introduced with 116 masterworks from the Rjksmuseum Amsterdam, featuring Vermeer's Milkmaid as a centerpiece.
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Shigeo Anzai "Personal Photo Archives"
The National Art Center Tokyo will hold a solo exhibition of Shigeo Anzai's documentary photographs. Anzai has been photographing sites central to modern art, mostly in Tokyo, from 1970 until today. His (...)
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"Nitten 100 Years: 100 Years of Japanese Art at One Glance!"
Nitten is Japan's largest art exhibition based on an open call for submissions. One hundred years have passed since the Meiji government held the first Monten in 1907 in order to promote art in Japan, (...)
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"Skin and Bones - Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" Exhibition
This exhibition will present recent trends in fashion and architecture. Until fairly recently, the two disciplines were not seen as having many points of contact, but from the 1980s onward, the distance (...)
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"Claude Monet: L'art de Monet et sa Posterité"
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the most popular painters in Japan, not to mention around the world. As a result of the popularity of his work, his paintings are often among a museum's main attractions (...)
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"Strangers of Paris 1900-2005: Pompidou Center Collection" Exhibition
Paris, the city of art, has attracted many artists from around the world since the end of the 19th century to today. For example, painters such as Picasso (Spain), Chagall (Russia), Modigliani (Italy) (...)
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"Living in the Material World – 'Things' in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond" Exhibition
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Architecture - Installation - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2007-01-21 - 2007-03-19
The 20th century was an age of materialistic civilization centered on cities. The experience of living in a world surrounded by abounding material 'things,' huge quantities of manufactured goods and commercial (...)
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"The Power of Expression, JAPAN" Exhibition
Marking the tenth anniversary of the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Media Art Festival, this exhibition explores the new realms of expression in media art. Taking "The power of expression in Japan" as its (...)
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Kisho Kurokawa "From the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life"
This exhibition is both a retrospective of architect Kisho Kurokawa (who designed the National Art Center) and an introduction to the latest projects he has in progress all over the world, taking a look (...)





