Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction" Exhibition
This exhibition spotlights the work of seven contemporary artists who burn with a passion for drawing and for representing all kinds of physical phenomena as well as the spiritual world that surrounds...More »
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"Moholy-Nagy in Motion" Exhibition
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a visionary 20th century artist who rivaled Leonardo da Vinci in his range of pursuits and interests. Escaping the Socialist revolution and postwar upheaval of his native...More »
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"Museum Collection Exhibition"
[Shoen Uemura, Cherry Blossom Viewing 1914-15]More »
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Shoen Uemura Exhibition
With the support of the Shohaku Museum in Nara, the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art is delighted to announce an exhibition by the modern Japanese painter Shoen Uemura, known for her elegant paintings of...More »
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"Collection" Exhibition
[Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, "Portrait of a Man in a Broad-Brimmed Hat" (1635)]More »
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Barnett Newman "Dialogue between Man and Work"
Barnett Newman (1905-1970) is an important painter of the 20th century who stands along with Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock as one of the representative artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement...More »
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Permanent Collection Exhibition
[Image: Nanban Byobu (detail) 17th c.]More »
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"Shiki-shi Haritsuke Sakura-yamabukizu Folding Screen" Exhibition
This special exhibition showcases the "shiki-shi haritsuke sakura-yamabukizu" folding screen made out of colored paper from the collection of the Tokyo National Museum. Created in 1605, this work is thought...More »
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Joseph Cornell + Mutuo Takahashi "Intimate Worlds Enclosed"
Joseph Cornell is an artist known for his handmade wooden boxes containing reproductions of old paintings, shells and star charts that are both works of art and treasure chests enclosing mementoes from...More »
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"Marie Laurencin's Fan" Exhibition
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) was a French painter who once said that "even worse than being dead is being a forgotten woman”. In 1922, some of her poet friends brought together a collection of poems in...More »
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"Stillness into Color: Inframince of Moonlight" Exhibition
This exhibition is based on a vision that stems from a neologism concept called Inframince proposed by one of the highly influential artists of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Duchamp created...More »
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"4 Stories -The Museum Collection and Japanese Modern Art" Exhibition
The collection of the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art is mainly composed of 20th century western art from abstract art to dada, surrealist art and the later developments after the Second World War. Recent...More »
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Museum Collection Exhibition
[Image: Claude Monet "Water Lilies" (1907)]More »
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Mark Rothko Exhibition
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Russia (current Daugavpils, Republic of Latvia) in 1903. During his childhood he immigrated to the United States with his family. Although he entered the prestigious Yale...More »
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"Post-War Japanese Artists: From the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art" Exhibition
In March 2008, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art reopened after the completion of a two-year renovation. For the occasion of this renewal, roughly 120 artworks from our collection are to be exhibited during...More »
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Morris Louis Exhibition
Morris Louis was born in the harbor town of Baltimore, near Washington DC, the capital of the United States in 1912. After graduating from a local art school, he was active for a period of time in NY;...More »
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"Masterworks from the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in a Renovated Building" Exhibition
In 1990, the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art opened in a dense, green forest. The museum reopened in March 2008 after completing a two-year renovation and construction process that was initiated at the...More »
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"Matisse et Bonnard: Lumière de la Méditerranée" Exhibition
This exhibition presents the richly colored worlds of two great painters of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). The two stood out amidst the emerging new art...More »
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”Mite! The Art of Conversation" Exhibition
The name “mite!” stands for "M-ethod for I-nteractive TE-aching", the interactive art-viewing education project proposed by art historian Amelia Arenas that has been promoted throughout Japan. This name...More »
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”Works from the Collection" Exhibition
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Museum Collection Exhibition
An exhibition of works by post-war American artists, including 13 works by Frank Stella. "Heron" by Tohaku Hasegawa, a work that has been designated as an important cultural asset, will be on display...More »
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"Alberto Giacometti with Isaku Yanaihara" Exhibition
140 sculptures, oil paintings and sketches that span the career of Alberto Giacometti will be on display. The works are mostly from the collection of the Alberto and Anette Giacometti Foundation in Paris....More »
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Paul Klee Exhibition
This is an exhibition of 150 oil paintings, watercolors, sketches and prints from three German museums with extensive Klee collections - Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Sprengel Museum, and Von der Heydt Museum....More »
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Marc Chagall "Les Fables de La Fontaine"
In "Les Fables" by 17th century French poet Jean de La Fontaine, short stories featuring various animals teach us about human ego, human stupidity and life's lessons. It is a classic literary work that...More »
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Gerhard Richter
The exhibition will present some fifty works of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), the German artist who has remained a constant and influential leader of the contemporary art world. Since the 20th century, when...More »
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Wols: Etchings and Watercolors
Wols (1913-1951) is an artist whose highly unique oil paintings, done in the early 1950s, won him a place in the history of postwar art. His oil paintings are characterized by a strong material sense created...More »
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The Method of Breathing World
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Fashion - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2005-07-09 - 2005-09-04
This exhibition is concurrent to the one at the Sakura City Museum of Art. This is an exhibition that introduces art for which "breathing" is a key concept, either in the experiencing or the creation...More »
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Hans Arp Exhibition
Hans Arp (1886-1966) is known as one of the most innovative artists of 20th century art. A sculptor, painter, and poet, he was one of the founders of the Dada movement in 1916. Opposing mechanical civilization...More »
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Selections from our Permanent Collection (2nd Floor Closed)
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Selections from our Permanent Collection
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Uemura Shouen, Shoukou and Atsushi: from the Collection of the Shouhaku Art Museum
In the history of modern Nihon-ga (Japanese style painting), Uemura Shouen stands as a painter who brought the Edo Period art of Ukiyo-e painting into the modern era and established a unique style of expressing...More »
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Collection Exhibition
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Picasso, la metamorphose de la forme
Pablo Picasso (1881~1973) stands as a giant in the annals of Western art history. With extraordinary vision he overturned the traditional conventions of painting and produced one masterpiece after another...More »
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Robert Ryman
For almost half a century, Robert Ryman (1930 ~) has continued to pursue a form of minimalist abstract painting that involves the use of white paint on square support surfaces while exploring all manner...More »





