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.

  • poster for "The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction" Exhibition

    "The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Photography
    • 2012-01-14 - 2012-04-15

    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 »

  • poster for "Moholy-Nagy in Motion" Exhibition

    "Moholy-Nagy in Motion" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
    • 2011-09-17 - 2011-12-11

    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 »

  • poster for "Museum Collection Exhibition"

    "Museum Collection Exhibition"

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    • Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
    • 2011-04-09 - 2011-09-16

    [Shoen Uemura, Cherry Blossom Viewing 1914-15]More »

  • poster for Shoen Uemura Exhibition

    Shoen Uemura Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Drawing
    • 2011-02-15 - 2011-03-18

    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

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2010-12-14 - 2011-02-13

    [Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, "Portrait of a Man in a Broad-Brimmed Hat" (1635)]More »

  • poster for Barnett Newman "Dialogue between Man and Work"

    Barnett Newman "Dialogue between Man and Work"

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    • Media: Painting - Art Talk
    • 2010-09-04 - 2010-12-12

    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 »

  • poster for Permanent Collection Exhibition

    Permanent Collection Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2010-07-21 - 2010-09-03

    [Image: Nanban Byobu (detail) 17th c.]More »

  • "Shiki-shi Haritsuke Sakura-yamabukizu Folding Screen" Exhibition

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    • Media: Drawing
    • 2010-04-10 - 2010-05-23

    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 »

  • poster for Joseph Cornell + Mutuo Takahashi "Intimate Worlds Enclosed"

    Joseph Cornell + Mutuo Takahashi "Intimate Worlds Enclosed"

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2010-04-10 - 2010-07-19

    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 »

  • poster for "Marie Laurencin's Fan" Exhibition

    "Marie Laurencin's Fan" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2010-01-26 - 2010-03-28

    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 »

  • poster for "Stillness into Color: Inframince of Moonlight" Exhibition

    "Stillness into Color: Inframince of Moonlight" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2009-10-10 - 2010-01-11

    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 »

  • poster for "4 Stories -The Museum Collection and Japanese Modern Art" Exhibition

    "4 Stories -The Museum Collection and Japanese Modern Art" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2009-06-27 - 2009-09-23

    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

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    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • 2009-06-12 - 2009-06-26

    [Image: Claude Monet "Water Lilies" (1907)]More »

  • poster for Mark Rothko Exhibition

    Mark Rothko Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Art Talk
    • 2009-02-21 - 2009-06-11

    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 »

  • poster for "Post-War Japanese Artists: From the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art" Exhibition

    "Post-War Japanese Artists: From the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
    • 2008-12-12 - 2009-02-01

    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 »

  • poster for Morris Louis Exhibition

    Morris Louis Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2008-09-13 - 2008-11-30

    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 »

  • poster for "Masterworks from the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in a Renovated Building" Exhibition

    "Masterworks from the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in a Renovated Building" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2008-06-03 - 2008-08-31

    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 »

  • poster for "Matisse et Bonnard: Lumière de la Méditerranée" Exhibition

    "Matisse et Bonnard: Lumière de la Méditerranée" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Art Talk
    • 2008-03-15 - 2008-05-25

    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 »

  • poster for ”Mite! The Art of Conversation" Exhibition

    ”Mite! The Art of Conversation" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • 2007-03-17 - 2007-07-01

    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 »

  • ”Works from the Collection" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • 2007-03-14 - 2007-03-16
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    Museum Collection Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2006-12-12 - 2007-03-11

    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 »

  • poster for "Alberto Giacometti with Isaku Yanaihara" Exhibition

    "Alberto Giacometti with Isaku Yanaihara" Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • 2006-10-10 - 2006-12-03

    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 »

  • poster for Paul Klee Exhibition

    Paul Klee Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Art Talk
    • 2006-06-24 - 2006-08-20

    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 »

  • poster for Marc Chagall "Les Fables de La Fontaine"

    Marc Chagall "Les Fables de La Fontaine"

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    • Media: Illustration - Painting
    • 2006-03-21 - 2006-06-11

    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 »

  • poster for Gerhard Richter

    Gerhard Richter

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2005-11-03 - 2006-01-22

    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 »

  • poster for Wols: Etchings and Watercolors

    Wols: Etchings and Watercolors

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    • Media: Painting - Prints
    • 2005-09-13 - 2005-10-23

    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 »

  • poster for The Method of Breathing World

    The Method of Breathing World

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    • 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 »

  • poster for Hans Arp Exhibition

    Hans Arp Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture
    • 2005-04-05 - 2005-06-26

    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 »

  • Selections from our Permanent Collection (2nd Floor Closed)

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    • Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
    • 2005-03-30 - 2005-04-03
  • Selections from our Permanent Collection

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    • Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
    • 2005-03-12 - 2005-03-27
  • poster for Uemura Shouen, Shoukou and Atsushi:  from the Collection of the Shouhaku Art Museum

    Uemura Shouen, Shoukou and Atsushi: from the Collection of the Shouhaku Art Museum

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2005-02-11 - 2005-03-10

    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 »

  • poster for Collection Exhibition

    Collection Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
    • 2005-01-02 - 2005-02-08
  • poster for Picasso, la metamorphose de la forme

    Picasso, la metamorphose de la forme

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    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
    • 2004-10-31 - 2004-12-23

    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 »

  • Robert Ryman

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2004-07-10 - 2004-10-24

    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 »

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