TAB Events - Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art

Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Katsumi Watanabe Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-02-09 - 2008-04-20
Photographer Katsumi Watanabe passed away on January 29th, 2006, leaving thousands of photographs that he had taken, mostly in the shadows of Shinjuku. This artist left his hometown in Iwate prefecture (...)

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"Kumagusu's Forests: The Universe According to Minakata Kumagusu" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Film - Art Talk
- 2007-10-07 - 2008-02-03
A suspicious man wearing only a koshimaki (waistcloth). This is how this artist was photographed at the age of 43 standing in the forest close to Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture in 1910. Why has this (...)

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Barry McGee Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Art Talk
- 2007-06-02 - 2007-09-30
Barry McGee's name became known throughout the art world after his exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998 and the 2001 Venice Biennale. Rumors of a graffiti artist named TWIST who (...)

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Bruno Taut "From Alps Architecture to Katsura Detached Palace"
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- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2007-02-03 - 2007-05-27
The ideas and principals of German architect Bruno Taut (1880-1938), who is known for having 'rediscovered' the Katsura Detached Palace, have recently been regaining attention. Not long ago, Berlin (...)

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Boroboro Dorodoro Exhibition - The Return of Japanese Subculture
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- Media: Drawing - Installation - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2006-10-14 - 2007-01-28
The art scene in the United States has recently begun to regain its momentum with the emergence of street subculture. Led by Barry McGee, the artists are from a generation that grew up on Japanese manga (...)

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Bye, Bye Nam June Paik
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2006-06-10 - 2006-10-09
In Soho during the 1960s, a small young man of Asian descent walked down Mercer Street with a video recorder in his hands. He spoke fluently in many language and conversed in depth of music and philosophy (...)

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I Love Art 8 "Beautiful Cities in Dreams"
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2006-03-03 - 2006-06-04
"I Love Art 8" will feature over 100 works by 13 photographers from the collection of the Museum. Also on display will be an array of installation and video works that set the stage for "cities which we (...)

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Federico Herrero "Live Surfaces"
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2005-10-29 - 2006-02-26
Federico Herrero (born in 1978 in Costa Rica) emerged on the international art scene at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. His gigantic painting of animals won him recognition and a special prize for young (...)

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Temporary Immigration - Everyday Transcience
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- Media: Drawing - Other - Installation
- 2005-07-02 - 2005-10-23
Airplanes have made high-speed travel possible, and various forms of technology have hypered up daily life to an unprecedented extent. Cell phones, for instance, have changed what kids do after school, (...)

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Tensin Okakura The Awakening of Japan
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- Media: Other
- 2005-02-05 - 2005-06-26
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Larry Clark - Punk Picasso
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- Media: Photography
- 2004-10-01 - 2005-01-30
This exhibit of Larry Clark, nicknamed "Punk Picasso," displays: photographs from his childhood and teenage years, his favorite record collections, props from movies, and pictures from 9/11.

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