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  • poster for "Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World"

    "Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World"

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    • at Yokohama Museum Of Art
    • in the Yokohama, Kanagawa area
    • 3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 220-0012
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Video installation - Art Talk
    • Closes in 33 days

    This is Fuyuko Matsui's first large-scale solo show at a public art museum. Her work was previously included in a group exhibition of nihonga painters at this museum in 2006. Matsui was born in Morimachi,...More »

  • poster for G-tokyo 2012

    G-tokyo 2012

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    • at Mori Arts Center Gallery
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (52F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
    • Starts in 11 days

    G-tokyo, a singular art fair, presents a select group of established, Tokyo-based galleries, each acknowledged internationally as being at the forefront of contemporary art. Exhibited works are created...More »

  • poster for Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 "How Physical"

    Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 "How Physical"

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    • at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
    • in the Nakameguro, Ebisu area
    • Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo
    • Media: Film - Video installation - Art Talk
    • Closes in 12 days

    From the start, each year the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions has posed the question, “What is an image?” and chosen a theme that suggests an answer to this question. It...More »

  • poster for Kiyomichi Shibuya "Which do you choose?"

    Kiyomichi Shibuya "Which do you choose?"

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    • at Art Front Gallery
    • in the Nakameguro, Ebisu area
    • Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033
    • Media: Installation
    • Closes in 5 days

    Kiyomichi Shibuya showed his work at the 2004 "Roppongi Crossing" exhibition and then also exhibited at Opera City Gallery. His trademark image is the spirograph, refracted with light and shadow. Each...More »

  • poster for Jean-Michel Othoniel "My Way"

    Jean-Michel Othoniel "My Way"

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    • at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • 4-7-25 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 26 days

    The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Japan of the French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel. Reconstructed within the unique space of the Hara Museum, formerly...More »

  • poster for “Cosmic Travelers - Toward the Unknown” Exhibition

    “Cosmic Travelers - Toward the Unknown” Exhibition

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    • at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
    • in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
    • 7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001
    • Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts - Performance Art
    • Closes in 82 days

    For its third exhibition, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo presents its first group show entitled “Cosmic Travelers – Toward the Unknown”. This is also its first show dedicated to Japanese contemporary scene...More »

  • poster for "Seed Design: Shapes For Traveling" Exhibition

    "Seed Design: Shapes For Traveling" Exhibition

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    • at INAX Gallery 1 & 2
    • in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
    • INAX Ginza 2F, 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
    • Media: Photography - Other
    • Closes in 11 days

    Features over 100 examples of seed specimens from around Japan and the rest of the world, including areas where you can learn how to disperse seeds. The exhibition will introduce visitors to the varied...More »

  • poster for Jackson Pollock "A Centennial Retrospective"

    Jackson Pollock "A Centennial Retrospective"

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    • at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
    • in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
    • 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322
    • Media: Painting - Art Talk
    • Closes in 82 days

    Immediately after World War II, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) altered the concept of painting significantly by means of an original style and technique in which he sprinkled paint all over a canvas spread...More »

  • poster for "Internet Art Future: Reality in Post Internet Era" Exhibition

    "Internet Art Future: Reality in Post Internet Era" Exhibition

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    • at NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
    • in the Shinjuku area
    • Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan
    • Media: Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
    • Closes in 33 days

    In the early 1990s, commercial services were first made available in the Japanese realms of the Internet. The subsequent development of broadband connections, and the popularization of so-called smartphones...More »

  • poster for "Media Art: Flow & Bright" Exhibition

    "Media Art: Flow & Bright" Exhibition

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    • at Eye of Gyre
    • in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
    • 2F, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
    • Media: Graphics - Installation - Video installation - Art Party
    • Closes in 12 days

    Flow: January 25th (Wed) – February 7th (Tue) Bright: February 10th (Fri) - 26th (Sun) This exhibition focuses on works by award-winning Japanese artists from the Japan Media Arts festival that fuse...More »

  • poster for “Redon and his Contemporaries: Dreams of the Fin-de-Siecle” Exhibition

    “Redon and his Contemporaries: Dreams of the Fin-de-Siecle” Exhibition

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    • at Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo
    • in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
    • 2-6-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
    • Media: Painting - Prints
    • Closes in 19 days

    At a time when the Impressionists were concerned with how to portray landscapes and physical states of the outside world, the symbolist painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916) instead turned inwards to explore...More »

  • poster for Lee Bul "From Me, Belongs to You Only"

    Lee Bul "From Me, Belongs to You Only"

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    • at Mori Art Museum
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation - Art Talk
    • Closes in 103 days

    Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques,...More »

  • poster for Mika Ninagawa + Hiroko Ninagawa Exhibition

    Mika Ninagawa + Hiroko Ninagawa Exhibition

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    • at Laforet Museum Harajuku
    • in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
    • Laforet Harajuku 6F, 1-11-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
    • Media: Photography - Crafts
    • Closes in 5 days

    Mika Ninagawa is one of Japan's leading photographers who creates work for advertising, fashion, books and exhibitions. Her mother Hiroko is a patchwork quilt artist who is married to the internationally-active...More »

  • poster for "The Garden of Mirei Shigemori" Exhibition

    "The Garden of Mirei Shigemori" Exhibition

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    • at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
    • in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
    • 3-7-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
    • Media: Painting - Architecture - Film - Art Talk
    • Closes in 40 days

    Mirei Shigemori is a well-known modern Japanese garden artist who surveyed over 400 classical Japanese gardens starting in 1936. The landscape designer learnt his craft through self-study, eventually designing...More »

  • poster for "Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue"  Exhibition

    "Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue" Exhibition

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    • at 21_21 Design Sight
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • Tokyo Midtown, 9-7-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
    • Media: Photography - Fashion
    • Closes in 54 days

    21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is pleased to announce a new exhibition, "Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue," opening to the public on September 16, 2011. The exhibition will focus on the collaborative...More »

  • poster for Hellen van Meene "Dogs and Girls"

    Hellen van Meene "Dogs and Girls"

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    • at Gallery Koyanagi
    • in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
    • Koyanagi Bldg. 8F, 1-7-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
    • Media: Photography - Art Party
    • Closes in 46 days

    Typically the artist rarely uses the same model but in this exhibition employs just three females, taking their portraits in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The exhibition also features portraits of the Academy...More »

  • poster for "The World of Junzo Ishiko: Bound for Kitsch, via Manga" Exhibition

    "The World of Junzo Ishiko: Bound for Kitsch, via Manga" Exhibition

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    • at Fuchu Art Museum
    • in the Musashino, Tama area
    • Sengen-cho 1-3, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-0001
    • Media: Photography - Prints - Art Talk
    • Closes in 12 days

    Junzo Ishiko (1928-77) was an art critic whose gaze extended beyond the purview of fine art to cover manga, theater, stage arts, popular entertainment, and various other odds and ends of the cultural spectrum....More »

  • poster for James Welling "Wyeth"

    James Welling "Wyeth"

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    • at Wako Works of Art
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • Piramide Bldg 3F, 6-6-9 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 25 days

    James Welling was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1951. He studied sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University and later graduated from California Institute of the Arts, where he worked mainly with video....More »

  • poster for 15th Japan Media Arts Festival

    15th Japan Media Arts Festival

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    • at The National Art Center, Tokyo
    • in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
    • 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558
    • Media: Installation - Film - Media Arts
    • Starts in 8 days

    The 15th edition of this annual festival showcases prizewinning works in the fields of art, entertainment, animation and manga.More »

  • poster for "Open Space 2011" Exhibition

    "Open Space 2011" Exhibition

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    • at NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
    • in the Shinjuku area
    • Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan
    • Media: Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
    • Closes in 33 days

    Open Space includes a gallery, a mini-theater, and ICC video archive "HIVE." Since its inauguration in 2006, the space has been open to the public free of charge, presenting new exhibitions annually. In...More »

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