Hara Museum Arc - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hara Museum Arc. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"The Shape of Time" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases a range of diverse works whose motifs are inspired by the Japanese seasons, as well as natural forms and colors that evolve and shift along with the time of year. Highlights include...More »
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"Beautiful Visages – Featuring the Important Cultural Property 'Female passing through a reed portiere'" Exhibition
This exhibit marks the first public display of the Important Cultural Property "Female passing through a reed portiere" since restoration work on it was completed. As a predecessor to the many paintings...More »
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"Hara Museum Collection: Body and Soul" Exhibition
The collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (located in Shinagawa, Tokyo) consists of a wide variety of some 1000 artworks dating from the 1950s from all over the world. This exhibition showcases...More »
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"Fighting" Exhibition
On display at the Kankai Pavilion are works from the Rokuro Hara collection that convey a sense of ferocity, struggle and fighting spirit, including screen paintings, implements and utensils used for refined...More »
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"The World of Color: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
The world in which we live is bursting with natural and man-made colors. In our daily lives, colors assume representative and symbolic meanings. They include such globally understood colors such as the...More »
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"Rokuro Hara Collection - Spring Masterpieces" Exhibition
On display are masterpieces of both Western and Eastern painting and calligraphy from the Rokuro Hara Collection.More »
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"Cosmos - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
This group exhibition features a variety of works that examine the notion of the cosmos as the source of human knowledge, emotion and meaning in works by Shigeo Toya, Tabaimo, Jonathan Borofsky, Hiroshi...More »
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"The Shape of Good Fortune" Exhibition
This exhibition ushers in the New Year with a selection of works that feature auspicious motifs such as cranes, turtles, pine trees, bamboo, plum, peonies and more. [Image: Tetsuzan Mori, "Folding Screen...More »
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"Cheer Up! From the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
On display at this exhibition are works that possess the strange power to revive and cheer our spirits. As Jonathan Borofsky claims, "art is for the spirit".More »
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"Celadon Vases from the Hara Rokuro Collection" Exhibition
On display are celadon vases that have been designated national treasures from the Hara Rokuro collection, in addition to a selection of modern paintings by masters such as Kano Eitoku and Maruyama Oukyo....More »
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Hara Museum Collection Exhibition
Showcases new acquisitions including installations by Jim Lambie and Miranda July, as well as paintings and sculptures by several contemporary artists.More »
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"Seasonal Delights" Exhibition
Japan's four seasons exhibit a wealth of difference in their natural phenomena, which usher in the approaching spring, summer, fall or winter. The keen sensibilities that are alive to the shifting seasons...More »
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"What's Interesting About Japanese Contemporary Art?" Exhibition
A selection of works (mostly painting and photography) from the collection by leading Japanese artists ranging from Shusaku Arakawa, Tetsumi Kudo, Lee Ufan, who expanded notions of art in the 1960 and...More »
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"Animals on Parade" Exhibition
Animals have been a popular artistic motif through the ages. They appear in many kinds of paintings, in religious or mythical settings, as livestock or as pets. In the paintings displayed in this exhibit...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
This will be the first Collection Exhibition since last spring to occupy the entire museum. 28 paintings, sculptures, photographs and video works will be on display, selected from the museum’s collection...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations selected from around 1000 works in the museum's permanent collection will be featured. Among the works on display are Mirror Room (Pumpkin) (1991) by...More »
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"Dynamic Beauty" Exhibition
These dynamic paintings from the Hara Rokuro Collection show animals and humans in the midst of a variety of actions. People in a frenzy at a sumo match, an unruly horse and a youth's attempt to restrain...More »
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"The Many Faces of Bird-and-Flower Paintings" Exhibition
Plants, birds, insects, etc., constitute the subject matter of bird-and-flower painting, one of the major genres of traditional Chinese painting. Established around the end of the Tang dynasty, bird-and-flower...More »
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"Being Seeing Feeling - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
Paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations selected from among the more than 1,000 works in the museum's permanent collection will be featured in this summer show, replacing a part of the works...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Collection: A Look at Media Art
Media is now an integral part of modern life, as it is in the world of art. More and more works of art areincorporating media-based technologies, with video and computer being the most representative....More »
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"8th Memories of Green Bokujo Art Contest" Exhibition
Hara Museum Arc presents the Memories of Green Bokujo Art Contest, organized by the Ikaho Green Bokujo. The Green Bokujo is a recreational ranch that seeks to familiarize visitors with animals and nature...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
This exhibition puts the spotlight on select works from the permanent collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, which boasts a wide spectrum of the best contemporary art from Japan and around...More »
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"A Kalaidascope of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
As suggested by its title, this exhibition presents a wide spectrum of contemporary art, consisting of selections from the permanent collection of the Hara Museum. As such, it provides an excellent introduction...More »
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"Creation and the Creative Mind: Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection" Exhibition
What comes to your mind when you hear the words “theme” or “material”? At the Hara Museum, viewers may see works by a variety of artists who are active today, works that encompass a wide spectrum of backgrounds...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Hara Museum ARC was opened in 1988 as an annex to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. While the museum in Tokyo is known for its unique architecture in which the museum’s permanent installations...More »
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End of Year/Beginning of Year Program
Every year, in Gallery C Hara Museum Arc holds an exhibition of paintings by elementary school students who have visited farms and expressed their memories of the visit in their paintings. In Gallery...More »
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"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Hara Museum Arc has regularly hosted exhibitions featuring carefully selected works from the 850 works in the Hara Museum collection. This time, the museum will be showcasing works by Japanese artists,...More »
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"Let's go to the Museum! - Enjoying Modern Art with Dick Bruna"
Dick Bruna (born in 1927, Utrecht, Netherlands) is one of the Netherlands' most renowned graphic designers and the creator of Miffy the rabbit. This exhibition uses Bruna's picture book "Miffy at the Gallery"...More »
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Selection from the Museum's Permanent Collection
The exhibition will be showcasing a special selection of works from the more than 850 pieces that currently make up the museum's permanent collection, with a focus on the most recent acquisitions. The...More »
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Permanent Collection Exhibition - Galleries A and B
The collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa, Tokyo) comprises about 850 works by artists from around the world. Featured in Gallery A are works by interior designer Shiro Kuramata,...More »
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Memories of Green Bokujo Contest - Gallery C
Works by elementary school children on the theme of the memories of Green Bokujo (ranch) are on display. This year marks the 6th year since the start of the contest. Scheduled to be displayed are 360 accepted...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
On display are works selected from the museum's permanent collection which currently consists of about 850 works. The exhibition is divided into three themes in three separate galleries. Being our contemporaries,...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection + Elementary School Student Art Contest
This exhibition consists of three parts: In Gallery C, drawings by elementary school children on the theme of "Memories of Green Bokujo" will be on display. The participating students will be drawn...More »
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Exquisite Pain - Sophie Calle
Hara Museum ARC is presenting an exhibition entitled "ART & LIFE" which features Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle and other works from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection. Artists throughout the...More »





