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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/51CA" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/51CA">
  <Name>&quot;The World of Junzo Ishiko: Bound for Kitsch, via Manga&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DE1022E7">
    <Name>Fuchu Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Sengen-cho 1-3, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-0001</Address>
    <Phone>042-336-3371</Phone>
    <Fax>042-335-7576</Fax>
    <Access>15 minutes walk from Higashi-Fuchu Station on the Keio Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>closed Tuesday if the Monday is a public holiday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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. This exhibition is an attempt to cast new light on Japanese art of the 1960s and 70s through Ishiko's eyes.

See website for more details on related events.

[Image: Junzo Ishiko (1970) photo by Norio Horikawa]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>35.7633</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥700, University/High School Students ¥350, Junior High/Elementary School Students ¥150</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 29th - January 3rd, Closed on January 10th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.675483</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.495256</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/6960" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/6960">
  <Name>“Redon and his Contemporaries: Dreams of the Fin-de-Siecle” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C5C855D6">
    <Name>Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-6-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from exit 1 at Nijubashimae Station on the Chiyoda line, 5 minutes walk from the Marunouchi South exit of JR Tokyo Station, 5 minutes walk from the Kokusai Forum Station on the JR Yurakucho Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 20:00, thursdays closinghour 20:00, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the Museum is open, but closed on the following Tuesday. Closed on January 1st.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 the infinite possibilities presented by his dreams. This exhibition offers viewers an overview of Redon’s fantastical visions through a selection of 130 works that also include pieces by artists who were profoundly influenced by him, such as Maurice Denis and Emile Bernard.

A particular highlight is the first public viewing of “Grand Bouquet”, his largest pastel painting that was recently acquired from an old chateau in France.

[Image: Odilon Redon, &quot;Grand Bouquet&quot; (1901) pastel on canvas, 248.3×162.9cm]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>51.329</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1400, College and High School Students ¥1000, Middle and Elementary School Students ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>*Open on February 27th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.675078</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.766061</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/69BB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/69BB">
  <Name>&quot;Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/603694BD">
    <Name>Yokohama Museum Of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 220-0012</Address>
    <Phone>045-221-0300</Phone>
    <Fax>045-221-0317</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk using &quot;moving walk way&quot; from Sakuragicho station on the JR, Tokyu Toyoko or Yokohama lines. 3 minutes walk from the &quot;Museum&quot; exit at Mimatomirai station on the Minatomirai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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, Shizuoka prefecture in 1974 and studied nihonga painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her graduation work took the notion of psychological and physical pain as its starting point, and her subsequent works have centered on provocative themes such as terror, madness, narcissism, sex, birth and death.

On display will be a selection of her most representative works, drafts and rough sketches, including some 80 new pieces created expressly for this exhibition. There will also be screenings of videos and films that represent Matsui's first attempt at art direction.

See website for details on related talks and other events.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>139.4</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, University Students and High School Students ¥700, Junior High Students ¥400, Elementary School Students and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed from December 29th - January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.453511</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.633489</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8986" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/8986">
  <Name>James Welling &quot;Wyeth&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D294405C">
    <Name>Wako Works of Art</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Piramide Bldg 3F, 6-6-9 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032</Address>
    <Phone>03-6447-1820</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6447-1822</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from Exit 1a, 1b, Exit 3 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya and the Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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. He relocated to New York in 1978, where he started his photographic projects, and again to California in 1995. Today, his subject matters and methods are wide, ranging from documentary subjects stemming from his personal interests and history (his great-great-grandmother’s diary, lace factories, landscapes of Connecticut, architectural structures) to everyday objects such as aluminum, drapery, gelatin, and flowers that have been arranged abstractly. Employing both analog and digital methods, he pursues the photographic medium in its entirety.

This exhibition will include Welling’s new project capturing the landscapes of Cushing, Maine and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania that surrounded the home and studio of Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and were much of the subject matter of the American realist painter’s works. Welling, an ardent fan of Wyeth particularly in his formative years, visited the two northeastern towns to photograph what remained of the painter’s environs.

&quot;When you go to Wyeth’s places, an unsettling phenomenon occurs. You see the paintings before you in pieces, fragmented, with more things Wyeth removed and reordered in painting. But the place is distinct and still the same place in the painting.&quot;

Welling’s photographs convey precisely the distance and the closeness revealed through this phenomenon that occurs in the lapse of time and location.

[Image: James Welling &quot;End of Olsons&quot; (2010) © James Welling / Courtesy of Wako Works of Art, Tokyo]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>34.1358</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>24</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.658769</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.734668</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8F00" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/8F00">
  <Name>&quot;The Garden of Mirei Shigemori&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/7879E100">
    <Name>Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-7-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-3001</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3405-7714</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from exit 3 at Gaienmae Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>The Museum is open on public holiday Mondays and Mondays during December. Closed on the new year's holiday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 around 200 different sites. This exhibition will seek out the essence of the Japanese aesthetic he explored, introducing Shigemori the man, as well as his landscape designs through models and the surveys he made of traditional gardens.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>46.0496</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, Students ¥800</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 31st - January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2011-12-03" start="17:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.667467</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.716628</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/ADC2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/ADC2">
  <Name>&quot;Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue&quot;  Exhibition </Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/F994A9B7">
    <Name>21_21 Design Sight</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Tokyo Midtown, 9-7-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052</Address>
    <Phone>03-3475-2121</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Direct access from Roppongi station on the Oedo and Hibiya subway lines, 3 minutes walk from Nogizaka station on the Chiyoda line</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is pleased to announce a new exhibition, &quot;Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue,&quot; opening to the public on September 16, 2011. The exhibition will focus on the collaborative work of legendary photographer Irving Penn and renowned designer Issey Miyake.

Issey Miyake's first encounter with Irving Penn was in 1983. On assignment for American Vogue, Penn photographed Miyake's clothing for an editorial feature. The perspective in these photographs startled Miyake as he suddenly saw his designs through a totally new set of eyes. As a direct result, Miyake asked Penn to photograph his designs. Over the next 13 years, from 1987 through the Autumn/Winter Collection of 1999, Irving Penn photographed Issey Miyake's biennial collections. Miyake never attended the photo sessions but instead chose to entrust the vision of his clothes entirely to Penn. The unusual decision to offer Penn complete freedom gave rise to an incredible &quot;visual dialogue&quot; between the two artists. The creative pulse of Penn and Miyake's unique collaboration had a lasting effect on their artistic visions. In the end, Penn made over 250 photographs of Miyake's designs, many of which appear in collection posters, were published in art books, or exhibited in museums and cultural institutions.

Under the direction of Midori Kitamura, Miyake's trusted colleague, and an installation design by architect Shigeru Ban, this exhibition features both the individual and collaborative work of Irving Penn and Issey Miyake. In addition to large scale projections of collection photographs by Penn, an animated film by Pascal Roulin with original drawings by Michael Crawford, and Issey Miyake collection posters exhibited collectively for the first time, original photographic prints made by Penn will also be on display along with his preliminary drawings for his photographs of Miyake's designs.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>46.7605</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, University Students ¥800, High and Junior High School Students ¥500, Ages 12 and under may enter for free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-09-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Tuesdays (Except November 1st, March 20th), December 27th–January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>53</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.664128</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.733458</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/DD58" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/DD58">
  <Name>&quot;Seed Design: Shapes For Traveling&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/079C21E1">
    <Name>INAX Gallery 1 &amp; 2</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>INAX Ginza 2F, 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031</Address>
    <Phone>03-5250-6530</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5250-6549</Fax>
    <Access>1 minutes walk from Kyobashi Station, 3 minutes walk from Ginza-1-chome or Takaramachi Station, 7 minutes walk from JR Yurakucho Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 and amazing world of seeds and their functions in the natural landscape. Learn about their strategies for survival and moving, using the strengths of the wind, of water, fire, animals and even their own powers.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>62.0635</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 26th - January 4th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.672083</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.772814</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/F4EB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/F4EB">
  <Name>Jean-Michel Othoniel &quot;My Way&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/2AAC1037">
    <Name>Hara Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>4-7-25 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3445-0651</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes by taxi or 15 minutes on foot from JR Shinagawa station (Takanawa Exit); or from the same station, take the TAN No. 96 bus for Gotanda Station, get off at the first stop (Gotenyama), and walk for 3 minutes. Limited parking.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following Tuesday.On a Public Holiday Wednesday, the museum closes at 17:00.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 a private residence, is the artist's retrospective exhibition that was first launched at the Centre Pompidou in Paris where it proved to be one of the most popular shows in the history of the museum.

As one of France's most prominent contemporary artists, Jean-Michel Othoniel is known for his large-scale glass sculptures, such as the sculptural piece Le Kiosque des Noctambules (2000) which adorns the entrance of the Palais-Royal–Musée du Louvre metro station in the center of Paris. He has also held exhibitions at major museums around the world. In Japan, the artist installed a large outdoor sculpture entitled Kokoro (2009) at Hara Museum ARC, the Hara Museum's annex in Shibukawa, Gunma prefecture. This permanent installation, a unique heart-shaped work made of red-colored glass globes, now provides a warm welcome to every visitor to the museum.

The present exhibition showcases works spanning 25 years of the artist's career. Numbering some 60 pieces, they range from early works made with sulfur and beeswax to his most recent large-scale sculptures made with colorful Murano glass from Italy. The title of the exhibition is taken from the song made famous by Frank Sinatra, My Way, which is symbolic of a unique vision unswayed by popular trends.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>82.4496</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, Students ¥700, School Kids ¥500, Free for Museum members &amp; also students through high school every Saturday during school terms.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.617778</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.739222</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/16A5" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/16A5">
  <Name>Jackson Pollock &quot;A Centennial Retrospective&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1AA8A2F2">
    <Name>The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Exit 1B at Takebashi Station on the Tozai Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on the new year holidays and during changing exhibitions. On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 on the floor. The art he produced during his brief 44-year long lifetime enabled him to become the first American artist to win truly international fame and today he is recognized all over the world as a cultural hero of the United States.

Although Pollock has also been highly acclaimed in Japan, exhibitions fully covering his work have not yet been held here. This exhibition is held in commemoration of the centennial of Pollock’s birth.

Comprised of works dating from his art student years, the acme during which he established his fame, and the later years when he was tormented by the decline in his creative ability, it is the first major exhibition to be held in Japan tracing the great marks he left on the art world.

There are works from foreign collections, including major works belonging to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Together with all the works by Pollock that are currently known to be housed in Japan, approximately seventy exhibits will be gathered under one roof.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>57.5058</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1500, University Students ¥1200, High School Students ¥800</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday except: March 19th, March 26th, April 2nd and April 30th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.687275</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7579</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1CAA" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1CAA">
  <Name>G-tokyo 2012</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/860F8FA2">
    <Name>Mori Arts Center Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (52F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>To Roppongi Hills, 10 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, 4 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Azabu Juban station on the Toei Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 especially for presentation at G-tokyo; booths consist of solo exhibitions along with thoughtfully curated group shows.

Rather than expand in size, in deference to the exclusive presentation of the highest quality works of contemporary art, G-tokyo has continued to deliberately limit the number of exhibiting galleries and is anticipating this, the fair's third year, to be the most exciting and refined to date.

Special feature: G-tokyo / α Exhibition
The acquisition of art is the quintessential art fair experience. The G-tokyo /α Exhibition has been designed to help a wider audience enjoy the pleasure of purchasing art and the joy of owning it, and thus will feature works available at an accessible price and size with a focus on new pieces  by emerging artists selected by top galleries; some of the brightest stars of today’s contemporary art scene.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/1CAA-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>144</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, Students ¥900, Junior High School Students and under ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Opening Hours: 11:00-21:00 (February 25), 11:00-20:00 (February 26)</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.657036</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7325</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BB6" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/5BB6">
  <Name>Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions 2012 &quot;How Physical&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B6131856">
    <Name>Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo</Address>
    <Phone>03-3280-0099</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3280-0033</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from East Exit at JR Ebisu Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[From the start, each year the Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions has posed the question, “What is an image?” and chosen a theme that suggests an answer to this question. It was, however, no easy task to think about an appropriate theme or envision the shape that this year’s festival might take less than a year since Japan was shaken to its roots by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region in northeast Japan. Confronted with images of such overwhelming power, images that exposed the fragility of the foundations on which images are built, it came to us at last that there was really only one choice, to make our theme the physicality of images. In retrospect it seems so obvious, in times like these we had to start over again with this most simple and basic of questions. It would, at the same time direct our eyes once again to the complex and diverse possibilities inherent in images.

The theme of the fourth Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions is, then, “How Physical”. To illuminate the physicality of images, we begin with their practical aspect, then, through the works we present, press on into the riches and depth that images offer. Before we raise questions about the themes and cultural significance of images, asking what images show us or why these particular images were taken, we turn first to the technologies, the skills, the tools, the activities, the means of distribution that make images possible. At the same time, we recognize the presence in images of times and spaces that only exist as images and the power of images to affect us viscerally. Our aim is to savor deeply forms of creative expression in which the distinctive physicality of images is brought to life. We also see this as an opportunity to reconsider the issues of the day not abstractly, but concretely by considering the physical processes, equipment, technologies and economic environment in which images are captured, preserved and passed down to us.

The Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions takes full advantage of the space in which it is held to provide an opportunity for those who create, connect, and receive images to come together to enjoy the works on display and examine from many angles the physical aspects of images past and present. We hope that it becomes for everyone involved a comprehensive and future-oriented celebration of the “physical making” involved in imaging and visual creative expression.

Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Central Square, Yebisu Garden Place; The Garden Room; and more…]]></Description>
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  <Karma>103.75</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free (*charge applies for certain screenings and events)</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.638553</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.716808</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6357" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/6357">
  <Name>&quot;Internet Art Future: Reality in Post Internet Era&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/08BF3F48">
    <Name>NTT ICC Inter Communication Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan</Address>
    <Phone>0120-144199</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from the East Exit at Hatsudai Station on the Keio New Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the ICC is open, but closed the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 and other pocket-sized terminals paved the way for 24/7 Internet layering of reality and information that takes place here, one may describe the present situation as a constant back-and-forth between real environments and the virtual world of the Internet.

The Internet enables us to figure out what relatives, friends and acquaintances, and eventually even unknown and unseen people in other parts of the world are doing right now. The background of this is defined by data of individual Internet users recording/discribing themselves and their habits. The community of Facebook users has grown to global scale, and it is said that approximately one million images and about two hundred million messages are posted every day on Flickr and Twitter respectively. These numbers alone are so large that a human lifetime is not enough to view them all.

Such data is being openly modified, processed and reconfigured as necessary through the respective services' application programming interfaces (API). The frequent trade of data between different services reflects a reinforcement of mutual connections, and in the present day the Internet itself is definitely penetrating our conscious mind as a medium that mirrors everyday life. Quite certainly, this is where new, different kinds of realities, textures, modes of communication, and ideas of human life are being generated.

Focusing on “post Internet” art originating in present-day network environments generated in a world in which the Internet has become an everyday matter, and reality is being subsumed in the world of information, this exhibition examines previous examples of artistic work, and attempts to offer a preview of future developments of the Internet in connection with art.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>56.9925</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults and University Students ¥500, Free for High School Students and younger</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.679581</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.6892</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/75B2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/75B2">
  <Name>Kiyomichi Shibuya &quot;Which do you choose?&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C72F2623">
    <Name>Art Front Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033</Address>
    <Phone>03-3476-4869</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3476-1765</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kiyomichi Shibuya showed his work at the 2004 &quot;Roppongi Crossing&quot; exhibition and then also exhibited at Opera City Gallery. His trademark image is the spirograph, refracted with light and shadow. Each of his works can stand on their own and function like a novel with their own characters.

[Image: Kiyomichi Shibuya, &quot;Mystery Circle: The 6th Princess of the Sea&quot; (2007) Washi, mixed media. 6000 x 4500 x 9950mm. Photo: Keizo Kioku. Courtesy of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>83.8636</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.644066</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.704766</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9ADA" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/9ADA">
  <Name>Hellen van Meene &quot;Dogs and Girls&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5693F25A">
    <Name>Gallery Koyanagi</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Koyanagi Bldg. 8F, 1-7-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3561-1896</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>1 minutes walk from 7 Exit Ginza-1-Chome subway station</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 Award-winning actresses, as seen on the cover of the New York Times.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>43.8996</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.671421</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.771292</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A4CC" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/A4CC">
  <Name>Mika Ninagawa + Hiroko Ninagawa Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/E4F37D6A">
    <Name>Laforet Museum Harajuku</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>Laforet Harajuku 6F, 1-11-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-6406-5979</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6406-6425</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from JR Harajuku Station, 1 minutes walk from Jingumae Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 producer Yukio Ninagawa. This exhibition matches Mika's vibrant, dazzling photos of flowers with Hiroko's exuberant, vivid embroidery.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>51.2</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥600, Students ¥400</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.665875</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.708669</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A5B2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/A5B2">
  <Name>Taisuke Koyama Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5F034758">
    <Name>G/P Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-5422-9331</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5422-9331</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Photographer Taisuke Koyama is known for his photography works with abstract expressions. As recent digital cameras typically also contain a video function, the distinction between still images and moving ones is becoming more vague. In this exhibition, G/P gallery will present Koyama’s video work, which is an attempt to expand the boundaries of photography.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>36.4286</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.717486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B086" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/B086">
  <Name>15th Japan Media Arts Festival</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/62826D7D">
    <Name>The National Art Center, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>In front of exit 6 of Nogizaka station on the Chiyoda line, 4 minutes walk from exit 7 of Roppongi station on the Oedo and Hibiya lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Tuesday, the museum is open, but closed on the following Wednesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The 15th edition of this annual festival showcases prizewinning works in the fields of art, entertainment, animation and manga.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>41.0256</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.661836</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.729619</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CA70" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CA70">
  <Name>“Cosmic Travelers - Toward the Unknown” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D5301380">
    <Name>Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-5766-1094</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Exit A1 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Chiyoda and Hanzomon lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Irregular holidays</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[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 and attests its desire to acknowledge the long-standing relationship between Louis Vuitton and Japan. Within an artistic and institutional landscape paying an increasing attention to young artists, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo wishes to present a dissonant but complementary point of view. Around the historically grounded figure of Noriyuki Haraguchi, who firmly embodies the links between Western and Japanese avant-gardes, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo will present artists from two different generations, representing various trends and media.

The word “cosmic” means many things. While the most universal meaning for the word relates to our universe referencing outer space, its connotations are manifold; it can mean limitlessness, infinity, liberal and unifying. As a metaphor, “cosmic” is a state of being with expansive associations, and when combined with the word “travelers,” it becomes a journey of the mind and body involving the senses, intuition, emotions and thoughts. It is in this sense that we are all cosmic travelers moving through space and time searching for truth and the meaning of life.

The five artists selected for the exhibition - Noriyuki Haraguchi, Ataru Sato, Tomoko Shioyasu, Masakatsu Takagi and Go Watanabe - are all forerunners in exploring the multitudes of cosmic aspects in their creative processes. In conceiving new works for the light filled space of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, the artists have inevitably incorporated this predominant feature into their works, but each on their own terms. Just as light is the source of all life and the underlining principal for creation, so too, here, it is the unifying element between the artworks presented.

Haraguchi is known for his use of discarded or no-longer functional industrial materials to make simple geometrical structures that reveal a hidden relationship between space and materials in a way that challenges our perception of reality. He has created site-specific works since the Seventies, and for this exhibition, he presents “Triad”, which consists of the three deeply related pieces including an aluminum container with a black liquid filled to the rim. The lacquer-like surface reflects the surrounding space with stunning clarity paradoxically disclosing its overwhelming solidity as an illusion. Interacting with the immense structure of the space, where the polarities of light and shadow are unified, this work transforms the space into a charged field of exquisitely balanced and composed forms.

Sato sensed sacredness from the exhibition space where the abundant natural light continuously streams through the glasses, and he created a portrait of a god entitled “Sign”. His provocative and diabolic visions are composed of convoluted amalgamations of deformed, fragmented body parts, internal organs and bodies cut wide open, unknown creatures, faces of people, animals and bugs. What might be called “trans-surrealistic, micro-maniac” portrait invites us past the surface into the vast stretches of a deep mysterious world within. Sato will also create his work with the universe as its theme in a live performance over several sessions.

Shioyasu makes exquisitely detailed paper-cuttings that transform the traditional decorative medium of Kiri-e into a dynamic harmony of patterns emulating natural elements such as water droplets, bubbles and cells. A large piece of paper work, eight meters in length and two meters in width, floats in the exhibition space just as its title “Flowing Sky” refers. Her other piece, “Bubbles”, a three-dimensional collage of round shapes made with pierced holes in synthetic paper, floats freely in an acrylic case. Astoundingly subtle interplays of light and shadow literally create and quietly amplify, through intricately cut patterns, a sense of harmony and interconnectedness between the visible and the invisible.

Watanabe creates new worlds in landscapes with animated surfaces. He crafts images with a variety of digital techniques, taking everyday objects from interior spaces as well as landscapes for his motifs, paring them down to their essential components and giving autonomy and freedom of movement to their surfaces. For this exhibition, he presents “one landscape, a journey”, an animated landscape composed of everyday cups and bowls stacked in a kitchen sink that is based on the panoramic landscape seen through the glass walls of the exhibition space. Suggesting a world in constant motion, Watanabe’s work reveals the origins of the word animation, the imparting of anima or soul to inorganic objects. The way he gives motion to the objects encourages us to consider the possibility of another dimension of reality in which all things are alive and conscious.

Multi-media artist Takagi’s work offers multi-dimensional adventures in virtual dreamscape through free association. It is a “moving painting” that brings forth a delightful feeling of riding on the oceanic waves of constantly changing color and form. For this exhibition, Takagi presents a visionary landscape that simulates the energy and radiance of the sun in which elements of fluid color and form merge and coalesce to form a larger whole, eventually creating a symphony of energy that transforms our inner vision.

All five of these artists are Cosmic Travelers in every possible sense of the term as the configuration of the exhibition mimics the vortex of cosmic energy already moving within the space. Walking through this exhibition literally becomes a journey from the darkness into the light offering a dynamic rhythm to the overall experience, in which visitors will be provided different traveling experiences every time they visit the exhibition.

Curator: Midori Nishizawa

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  <Name>&quot;Media Art: Flow &amp; Bright&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Eye of Gyre</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2F, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
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  <Description><![CDATA[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 art and technology in dynamic ways.

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  <Name>Lee Bul &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only&quot;</Name>
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  <Description><![CDATA[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, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke &quot;pods&quot; that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gyres and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country's transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something, the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society.

While showcasing her major works in the four sections &quot;Ephemeral Presence,&quot; &quot;Beyond Human,&quot; &quot;Utopia and Dreamscape&quot; and &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only,&quot; in the &quot;Studio&quot; section this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only&quot; is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the &quot;something&quot; for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer.

Events:
Artist Talk (Japanese-Korean-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Lee Bul, who will visit Japan for the exhibition, discusses her own artistic activities over the last two decades.
Date: 19:00-20:30 Saturday 4 February, 2012
Venue: Academyhills49, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F
Capacity: 150 (bookings required)
Admission: General ¥1,000 MAMC Member free

Symposium  (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Seeking an Ideal Society
In her series &quot;Mon grand récit,&quot; and other works, Lee Bul has pursued an ideal vision of society with reference to the utopian theories and social political theories of the 20th century. The South Korea of the late 1980s, where she began her work as an artist, was experiencing a time of both hope and uncertainty as the country shifted towards democracy and existing value systems were being shaken up. The panelists at this symposium will be Lee Bul, who will visit Japan for the exhibition; Richard Noble a leading Western researcher into utopian theories; and Takahashi Toru, a scholar on cyborg theory, who considers future societies with reference to cyborg technology really does have the potential to create 'ultimate bodies.' These panelists will discuss Lee's artwork in the context of the 20th century, out of which utopian theories were born. In the present age of confusion, we invite you to come and think about the visions for ideal society that each of them describe.
Speakers: Lee Bul, Richard Noble (Head of Art Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London), Takahashi Toru (Professor, Waseda University)
Moderator: Kataoka Mami (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 14:00-16:00 Sunday 5 February, 2012
Venue: Academyhills49, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F
Capacity: 150 (bookings required)
Admission: General ¥1,000; MAMC Member free

Curator Talk  (Japanese only)
The exhibition curator discusses the sense of values that can be seen in Lee Bul's artworks, making reference to various theories of Utopia and &quot;the ideal society.&quot;
Speaker: Mami Kataoka (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 19:00-20:30 Wednesday 22 February, 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: free (exhibition ticket required)

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