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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.

"Tokyo Gobidai University Union Graduation Exhibition"
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2012-02-23 - 2012-03-04
The participating universities are Nihon University College of Art, Musashino Art University, Tama Art University, Joshibi University of Art and Design, and Tokyo Zokei University. Participating departments...More »
63rd Toyo Art School Graduation Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Painting - Product
- 2012-02-22 - 2012-03-04
358 works that collectively comprise a response to the question "what can art do in the face of crisis?" Exhibition hall 3AMore »
15th Japan Media Arts Festival
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- Media: Installation - Film - Media Arts
- 2012-02-22 - 2012-03-04
The 15th edition of this annual festival showcases prizewinning works in the fields of art, entertainment, animation and manga.More »
Hiroji Noda Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2012-01-18 - 2012-04-02
Recognized for his artistic talents at a young age, Hiroji Noda (born in 1952) became the youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition at Minami Gallery in 1977, the year after he had graduated from Tama...More »
"Domani: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Digital
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-02-12
Features the work of eight young artists who have been working in different artistic fields in overseas study programs, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.More »
"Tokyo Anima! 2011" Exhibition
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- Media: Film - Digital
- 2011-10-09 - 2011-10-10
Recent and new works by 30 young animators.More »
"To See as Artists See: American Art from the Phillips Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Art Talk
- 2011-09-28 - 2011-12-12
Touching on avant-garde European art from the early twentieth century, American art, with the appearance of abstract expressionism after the Second World War, had a major influence on international modern...More »
"Dekoboko Search Team" Workshop
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- Media: Art Party - Art Talk
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-07-16
Workshop led by Koichi Sakao that will take participants on a search for hidden shapes and forms using paper and color pencil. See website for more details.More »
"Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-06-08 - 2011-09-05
This exhibition represents one of the finest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces ever assembled, with the works of Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin and other...More »
"Artist File 2011: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2011-03-16 - 2011-06-06
The Artist File exhibition organized by the National Art Center, Tokyo is an annual exhibition that selectively presents a group of artists who are doing some of the most remarkable new work inside or...More »
"Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities in Tokyo"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2011-02-17 - 2011-02-27
This exhibition features works by graduating students of five art schools in Tokyo: Nihon University, Musashino Art University, Tama Art University, Joshibi University of Art and Design and Tokyo Zokei...More »
62nd Toyo Institute of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-02-16 - 2011-02-27
On display are more than 350 graduation works by design, illustration and art students at the Toyo Institute of Art and Design.More »
"Surrealism: From the Collection of the Pompidou Center" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-05-15
In 1924, the young poet Andre Breton launched his Surrealist Manifesto, which sparked the largest artistic movement of the 20th century. Inspired by the laws of chance, randomness, dream, fantasy and myth,...More »
14th Japan Media Arts Festival
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- Media: Installation - Media Arts - Art Talk
- 2011-02-02 - 2011-02-13
The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival will be held from February 2-13 at the main venue located in the National Art Center, Tokyo, and the satellite venue at Tokyo Midtown. On display will be over 170 works...More »
"Art Magazines and Postwar Art: Art Media in a Globalized Age"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-12-12 - 2010-12-12
This final lecture in a series on art magazines in the museum's collection will be on Japan's first bilingual Japanese-English art magazine ART iT, founded in 2003. Former editor Tetsuya Ozaki will speak...More »
"DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2010" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-12-11 - 2011-01-23
Run since 1967 by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists gives young artists an opportunity to travel overseas and study under specialists in their...More »
Vincent Van Gogh "The Adventure of Becoming an Artist"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2010-10-01 - 2010-12-20
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), and the works of this talented artist have been displayed in Japan countless times. Nevertheless, there has yet to be...More »
"Shadows: Works from the National Museum of Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-09-08 - 2010-10-18
Launched in April 2001, the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art has entered its tenth year. To commemorate this anniversary, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National...More »
Man Ray "Unconcerned But Not Indifferent"
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2010-07-14 - 2010-09-13
"Unconcerned But Not Indifferent" presents more than 400 works from the collection of the Man Ray Trust. Although individual items have occasionally been loaned for major exhibitions, the full scope of...More »
"Post-Impressionism: 115 Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-05-26 - 2010-08-16
We are very proud to present "Post Impressionism:115 Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay", an exhibition that brings together nearly 100 masterpiece paintings from the legendary collections of the Musée...More »
Lucie Rie "A Retrospective"
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- Media: Ceramics
- 2010-04-28 - 2010-06-21
Lucie Rie (1902–1995), one of the twentieth century’s greatest studio potters, devoted her life to creating ceramic works of art that brim with a fresh sense of surprise and discovery. Born into a wealthy...More »
"Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-03-03 - 2010-05-05
The Artist File exhibition introduces a group of currently active artists whose work is among the most noteworthy, both in Japan and abroad. This year's event, the third in the series, features seven artists...More »
33rd Annual Joint Graduation Exhibition of Five Art Universities in Tokyo
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- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture
- 2010-02-18 - 2010-02-28
Exhibiting Space 1A・1B・1C・1D・2A・2B・2C・2D・Outside spaceA・B・CMore »
61st Toyo Institute of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Other
- 2010-02-17 - 2010-02-28
Exhibition of works by students at the Toyo Institute of Art and Design, whose alumni have made great strides in the worlds of advertising and design. Inquiries: 03-3359-7421More »
13th Japan Media Arts Festival
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- Media: Illustration - Video installation
- 2010-02-03 - 2010-02-14
Japan Media Arts Festival is dedicated to work that reflects contemporary times or looks ahead. On display are prominent pieces selected from submissions from around the world to the four categories of...More »
Renoir "Tradition & Innovation"
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-01-20 - 2010-04-05
More than 80 works, collected from major museums around the world, by the Impressionist master who sought to explore diverse pictorial possibilities, despite the fame he had gained as a portrait artist....More »
"Domani: The Art of Tomorrow 2009" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2009-12-12 - 2010-01-24
With the aim of fostering new artists who will lead the future of the Japanese art world, the Agency for Cultural Affairs has been organizing the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists....More »
"Relationship Between Art, Mankind and Natural Environment" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-10-30 - 2009-10-30
As seen in the prehistoric cave paintings of Altimira, mankind has created art since ancient times. At a time when various global environmental problems are rising to the surface, this talk event offers...More »
"The Habsburg: Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Crafts
- 2009-09-25 - 2009-12-14
This year marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In commemoration of this event, this exhibition showcases a total of 120 exquisite paintings...More »
Yoko Matsumoto + Rika Noguchi "The Light"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2009-08-19 - 2009-10-19
This exhibition showcases works on the theme of "light" by two leading contemporary Japanese artists, painter Yoko Matsumoto and photographer Rika Noguchi. Yoko Matsumoto (b.1936) began producing abstract...More »
"AIDS Orphans in Uganda Meet an Artist" Symposium
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-07-11 - 2009-07-11
In January 2009, an artist visited Uganda and held a workshop for children who lost their parents to AIDS. It was a program realized through the passion and efforts of students of Tohoku University of...More »
Art x Science Cross Talk vol.1 "'Hitoshi Nomura: Perceptions -Changes in Time and Field' x 'It's a Tasty World -Food Science Now!'"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-07-10 - 2009-07-10
The National Art Center, Tokyo is holding "Hitoshi Nomura 'Perceptions -Changes in Time and Field'" from May 27th (Wed) through July 27th (Mon). Hitoshi Nomura started tackling photographic expression...More »
"René Lalique: A Retrospective" Exhibition
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- Media: Crafts
- 2009-06-24 - 2009-09-07
René Lalique (1860－1945) is known as a trailblazer in the field of Art Nouveau jewelry and Art Déco glass making from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Attracting much attention at the Paris Exposition...More »
Hitoshi Nomura "Perceptions -Changes in Time and Field"
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-05-27 - 2009-07-27
Born in Hyogo prefecture in 1945, Hitoshi Nomura started tackling photographic expression in the late 1960s. He attracted much attention by realizing the visualization of "gravity" and "time" through the...More »
"L'enfant dans les collections du musée du Louvre" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Crafts
- 2009-03-25 - 2009-06-01
Around 200 exquisite works portraying children from 7 sections of the Louvre collection (ancient Egyptian art, ancient Oriental art, ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman arts, painting, sculpture, crafts,...More »
"Artist File 2009 -The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Film - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2009-03-04 - 2009-05-06
"Artist File" exhibition is a serial annual show that introduces notable artists handpicked by the curators of the NACT in a solo exhibition format. This second installment features works by 9 artists...More »
12th Media Arts Festival
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Installation - Film - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2009-02-04 - 2009-02-15
The Japan Media Arts Festival has been held every year for the past 12 years in order to encourage talent in multimedia. This year, 2146 submissions from 44 countries around the world were received in...More »
"Matazo Kayama Retrospective 1927-2004" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Fashion - Ceramics - Art Talk
- 2009-01-21 - 2009-03-02
Matazo Kayama constantly breathed new life into the postwar Japanese art world. While learning from traditional art form, he opened up new possibilities of nihonga painting with his remarkable techniques...More »
"Domani: The Art of Tomorrow 2008" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-12-13 - 2009-01-26
With the aim of fostering new artists who will make the future of the Japanese art world, the Agency for Cultural Affairs has been organizing the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists...More »
"SoCa 2008/ Design Lectures" Talk Event
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-30 - 2008-11-03
SoCa is a lecture event by designers and creators who are active both in Japan and abroad. Designers and professional creators in various fields will give lectures on the theme of lifestyle and technology...More »
"150th Anniversary of Franco-Japanese Relations: La Vie Possible de Christian Boltanski"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-19 - 2008-10-19
Christian Boltanski is a representative French contemporary artist who has worked and exhibited internationally, creating installations that consist of photographs, videos and 3D objects dealing with issues...More »
"Picasso: From the Collection of the Musee National Picasso, Paris" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-10-04 - 2008-12-14
This exhibition aims at a retrospective overview of the work of master painter Pablo Picasso, who innovated ceaselessly and reinvented himself several times over the course of his career. While Picasso...More »
"Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-08-20 - 2008-10-20
In addition to its rapid economic growth, China has gained much attention not only for the Beijing Olympics, but also for its contemporary art scene, which has made waves across the world. Since the period...More »
"European Still Life Painting from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-02 - 2008-09-15
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is a world-renowned museum housing one of the best art collections in the world. Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition showcases 75 works from the...More »
Emily Kame Kngwarreye Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-05-28 - 2008-07-28
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...More »
"67th Sogen" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-04-14
Location: Exhibition Rooms 1A, 1B, 1C, 1DMore »
"61th Jigen-Kai" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-04-14
Location: Exhibition Rooms 2A, 2B, 2C, 2DMore »
"67th Watercolor Confederation" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-02 - 2008-04-14
Location: Exhibition Rooms 3A, 3BMore »
"Modigliani et le Primitivisme" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Art Talk
- 2008-03-26 - 2008-06-09
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...More »
"61st Japan Independent" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Art Talk
- 2008-03-19 - 2008-03-31
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...More »
48th Japan Nanga-in Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-03-19 - 2008-03-30
84th Hakujitsu-kai Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2008-03-19 - 2008-03-31
"Artist File 2008 - The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Installation - Film - Art Talk
- 2008-03-05 - 2008-05-06
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...More »
"11th Japan Media Arts Festival" Winning Works Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Installation - Film - Art Talk
- 2008-02-06 - 2008-02-17
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,...More »
"Taikan Yokoyama: 50 Years On" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2008-01-23 - 2008-03-03
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...More »
"Journey - Encounters and Dialogues with Foreign Cultures" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-12-15 - 2008-01-28
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...More »
"Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two Works in Progress" Talk Event
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-11-08 - 2007-11-08
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...More »
"Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting - Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-09-26 - 2007-12-17
Dutch Genre Painting from the 17-19 century introduced with 116 masterworks from the Rjksmuseum Amsterdam, featuring Vermeer's Milkmaid as a centerpiece.More »
Shigeo Anzai "Personal Photo Archives"
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- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-09-05 - 2007-10-22
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...More »
"Nitten 100 Years: 100 Years of Japanese Art at One Glance!"
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- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2007-07-25 - 2007-09-03
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,...More »
"Skin and Bones - Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture - Fashion - Art Talk
- 2007-06-06 - 2007-08-13
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...More »
"Claude Monet: L'art de Monet et sa Posterité"
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-04-07 - 2007-07-02
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...More »
"Strangers of Paris 1900-2005: Pompidou Center Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-02-07 - 2007-05-07
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)...More »
Kisho Kurokawa "From the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life"
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- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2007-01-21 - 2007-03-19
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...More »
"Living in the Material World – 'Things' in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond" Exhibition
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- 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...More »
"The Power of Expression, JAPAN" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Video installation - Digital
- 2007-01-21 - 2007-02-04
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...More »

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