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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2D5D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2008/2D5D">
  <Name>Motohiro Tomii &quot;Special Exhibition = Permanent Collection Exhibition&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/69C61601">
    <Name>ARCUS Studio</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>Moriya Manabinosato, 2418 Itatoi, Moriya-shi, Ibaraki 302-0101</Address>
    <Phone>0297-46-2600</Phone>
    <Fax>0297-46-2600</Fax>
    <Access>Take a bus bound for Shin Moriya Station departing from Moriya Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</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>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Artist Motohiro Tomii will create sculptural works using ready-made objects. The sculptures will then become permanent collections of ARCUS Project and exhibited inside Building B. Moriya Manabi-no-sato, where ARCUS Studio is located, has a music room, cooking room, and craft shop, and the facilities are used by neighborhood residents regularly. The exhibition does not have a closing date, and all works will be exhibited until they decay naturally.

Opening Reception: March 22nd (Sat), 18:30- at ARCUS Studio
Please contact venue to attend by phone or fax. (0297-46-2600)]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2008/2D5D-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2008/2D5D-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.266633</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2008-03-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 11:00 - 18:00</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>1</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.962214</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.959047</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/1884" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/1884">
  <Name>Kazuhito Tanaka &quot;Untitled Composition&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/975EFF82">
    <Name>Maki Fine Arts</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1F Uchida Bldg.15-3 Nihonbashi Kodenmacho,Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0011</Address>
    <Phone>03-3669-7501</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3669-7501</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Exit A1 at Bakuro-Yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 4 minutes walk from Exit 1 at Kodemmacho Station on the Hibiya line, 3 minutes walk from Exit 1 at JR Bakurocho Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</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>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The photographer won the Tokyo Frontline 2011 Photo Award and this is his first Tokyo solo exhibition, which will transform the whole gallery space into a new installation using photographs taken in an abandoned elementary school.

[Image: Kazuhito Tanaka “Untitled Composition” (2010-11) color photograph]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/1884-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/1884-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>20.4878</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-28" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>3</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688449</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.784487</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/1C81" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/1C81">
  <Name>&quot;The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo presents. Girls Illust Exhibition #17 at Valentine weeks!&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/81AE86A2">
    <Name>The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>12-9 Daikyocho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0015</Address>
    <Phone>03-3341-3253</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3341-3253</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from Yotsuya Sanchome Station on the Marunouchi Line, 7 minutes walk from Shinanomachi Station on the JR Sobu Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" 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: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Part of a series of open call group shows featuring girly illustrations, just in time for Valentine's Day.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/1C81-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/1C81-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="17:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.680804</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.721069</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/3BC4" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/3BC4">
  <Name>Ken Lum &quot;2000s to Present&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1903D164">
    <Name>Misa Shin Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-2-7 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0072</Address>
    <Phone>03-6450-2334</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6450-2335</Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from exit 4 at Shirokane-Takanawa Station on the Nanboku line and the Toei Mita line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</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>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ken Lum, born in 1956, is an internationally active artist based in Vancouver. His work approaches everyday social structures with a critical eye and an ironic sense of humor, traversing a wide variety of media that includes photography, sculpture, painting and installation.

Lum’s art is concerned with the ways in which identity formation intersects with society’s transformation. This focus is deeply connected to his birth to Chinese immigrant parents in Vancouver, a city of numerous ethnic groups. In his works which use the visual language of public signage, billboards, logos and the mass media, he aims to demystify the tensions and contradictions of living in an increasingly globalizing world. His chosen approach continues to question the very nature of culture in contemporary society, by dismantling pleasant phrasings and blurring the boundaries between high art and popular culture.

Five representative works produced since 2000 will be presented.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/3BC4-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/3BC4-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>8.6747</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2011-12-15" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.643052</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.738034</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9542" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/9542">
  <Name>Alphaville &quot;Primary Structures&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/3466BD0B">
    <Name>Prismic Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Akimoto Minami-aoyama Bldg. 5F, 4-1-9 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062</Address>
    <Phone>03-5770-4751</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk from exits 1A, 1B at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</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></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Three-dimensional installation with a geometric structure.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/9542-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/9542-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/9542-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>6.16826</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2011-12-16" start="17:00:00" end="19:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>1</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.664006</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.722744</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/9742" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/9742">
  <Name>Mana Konishi &quot;Alex&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/AD3B2DA2">
    <Name>Arataniurano</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-2-5-3A Shintomi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0041</Address>
    <Phone>03-3555-0696</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3555-0697</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from Shintomicho Station on the Yurakucho Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Mana Konishi’s landscapes and portraits are painted with graciously unconstrained and sensual brushstrokes, as well as a unique sense of color. Her painting distances itself from viewers with its creation of a serene and unreal world of uncertainty.

In creating her works, Konishi first selects photographs from numerous snapshots for motifs and layouts. These photographs serve to give a general sense of what to draw, and are merely a starting point for her creative expression. Her interest is not to paint these scenes and figures realistically, but rather to fill them with unique stories, creating a seemingly illusory world for her paintings.

Rather than images that would give a clear view of the finished painting, selected photographs are nondescript. Konishi chooses photographs that feel oddly incomplete, and imagines new stories for them. Moving her brush stimulates more thoroughly the artist’s subconscious world of imagery, and paintings become visualized through this process.

In this exhibition, Konishi presents portraits featuring her son, Alex. She has been working with portraits in recent years, and it has been three years since &quot;Portraits&quot;, herlast solo show in 2009.

[Image: Mana Konishi &quot;Alex Sleeping (August, 2011)&quot; (2011) Oil on canvas, h.41 × w.32 cm. Photo: Ikuhiro Watanabe]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/9742-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/9742-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>13.6694</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-14" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.668592</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.77595</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/B183" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/B183">
  <Name>”Japanation” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/89223242">
    <Name>Tobin Ohashi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-4 Nihombashi-yokohamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0003</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax>03-5695-6600</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from exit 1 at Kodenmacho Station on the Hibiya line, 1 minute walk from exit A2 at Bakuroyokoyama Station on the Shinjuku line, 1 minute walk from exit A2 at Nihonbashi Station on the Asakusa line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics by young Japanese artists.

Artist Talk: January 22 (Sunday) 17:00-18:00]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/B183-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>6.86793</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-08" start="15:00:00" end="19:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688028</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.785139</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/BD0D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/BD0D">
  <Name>Eriko Koga &quot;Asakusa Zenzai&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5EE38E6C">
    <Name>Emon Photo Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Togo Bdg. B1, 5-11-12 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047</Address>
    <Phone>03-5793-5437</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5793-5414</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Exits 1 &amp; 3 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition of photographs documents the life of an elderly couple from Asakusa over some six years, held to commemorate the publication of the book of the same name by Seigensha. Spatial design by Fumihiko Oshima of antique shop Rozan.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/BD0D-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>14.026</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-20" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>5</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.649842</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.726094</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/E8E3" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/E8E3">
  <Name>Takashi Homma &quot;Mushrooms from the Forest 2011&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C905EA74">
    <Name>Blind Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Yyogi Village, 1-28-9 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0053</Address>
    <Phone>03-6300-5393</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from the West exit of JR Yoyogi Station, 1 minute walk from exit A1 at Yoyogi Station on the Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Minami-shinjuku Statioon on the Odakyu Odawara line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</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>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display are 25 works by Takashi Homma that depict forests and mushrooms. High levels of radiation were detected at the locations that appear in this series, and the consumption of wild mushrooms that grow there has apparently been banned.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/E8E3-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/E8E3-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>21.3192</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for Winter Holidays from January 1st–3rd</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2011-12-17" start="20:00:00" end="22:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.679058</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.704387</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0C11" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/0C11">
  <Name>Takahiro Yamashita Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/F0AA59F8">
    <Name>Tap Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>3-2-8 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-3643-6885</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3643-6885</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from exit B2 at Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station on the Oedo and Hanzomon lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</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>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0C11-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0C11-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0C11-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>6.98864</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="17:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.676774</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.808184</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1098" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1098">
  <Name>&quot;Kawaii Bazaar&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/881D4BF9">
    <Name>Niji Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-2-10 Kichijoji-Honcho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-0004</Address>
    <Phone>0422-21-2177</Phone>
    <Fax>0422-21-2166</Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from JR Kichijoji station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>8.09524</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/11B9" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/11B9">
  <Name>Hirotoshi Iwasaki &quot;into silence&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/162DA10E">
    <Name>Gallery Terra Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-3-2-6F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo Lines; 9 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on the Hanzomon Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</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: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Iwasaki consistently tries to turn invisible existence - time, space and memory - into perceivable things. As a method of making invisible existence perceivable, he uses moving images that go beyond the language barrier. The moving image works in conjunction with supplementary drawings on a piece of paper to produce a poetic atmosphere.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.23864</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-04" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678167</Latitude>
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  <Name>Mari Ito Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>nap gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6-11-14-209 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-6803-2429</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Exit 4 at Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 8 minutes walk from JR Akihabara Station on the Yamanote line, 3 minutes walk from exit 6 at Yushima Station on the Chiyoda line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.89383</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774005</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/13EF" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/13EF">
  <Name>&quot;Tokyo-ga&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/A97BD17C">
    <Name>Gallery 21</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>LE DAIBA In Hotel Grand Pacific Tokyo 3F, 2-6-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 135-8701</Address>
    <Phone>03-5410-1277</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5410-1278</Fax>
    <Access>Direct connection from Daiba Station on the Yurikamome Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</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>Last day until 17:00 only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The situation of Japan changed drastically on 11th March 2011. Several problems existing in this country since a long time ago have again been put into question by a natural disaster multiplied by human mistakes in the Tohoku district. We now realize our deep responsibility to the happiness in our own lives and we need to understand more the real situation we are faced with.

This project hopes to remind us of the present Tokyo situation by revealing its beauty, potential, value, charms, uniqueness and also problems. Features 100 photographer's &quot;Tokyo Scapes&quot;, the exhibition presenting a &quot;grand picture&quot; of the city of Tokyo.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.1808</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-18" start="15:30:00" end="16:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.622008</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/15A1" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/15A1">
  <Name>Shimon Minamikawa &quot;Mirror, Music, Multimedia&quot; with Coffee Party</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/6B4DE589">
    <Name>NADiff a/p/a/r/t</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 1F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-3446-4977</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3446-4978</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="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
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    <ScheduleNote>Note:On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery and the shop is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Shimon Minamikawa is known for his paintings that incorporate text, stripes and polka dots onto a single surface, along with human figures and still lifes. This exhibition focuses on his paintings while also introducing viewers to the creative process and ideas that underline his work. Minamikawa's painting-installation explores the boundaries and demarcations particular to painting and the ways in which it seems to jut or spill out of them.

See website for more details on related talks and events.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>8.5192</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-17" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>46</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1BC8" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1BC8">
  <Name>Mitsukuni Takimoto &quot;What is to curve, what is to be curved&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/0AC15B15">
    <Name>Tokyo Gallery + BTAP</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>8-10-5 7F Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3571-1808</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3571-7689</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from Shinbashi Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</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>saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tokyo Gallery + BTAP is pleased to present an exhibition by the wood sculptor Mitsukuni Takimoto entitled “What is to carve, what is to be carved”. This is Takimoto’s second solo show with the gallery, showcasing a selection of pieces that include sculptures from his Water and Cloud series, which he has been working on since the late 1990s, as well as a number of his most recent works.

At a time when the term “contemporary art” has become commonplace, the name of Takimoto’s occupation – wood sculptor – seems to have a somewhat nostalgic ring to it. Although contemporary art tends to emphasize the concept behind the work, wood sculpture privileges material and technique above all else. Techniques that the body of the artist has acquired and absorbed sculpt the wood, bestowing form on it. Out of this, a shape emerges, conveying the entirety of this process to the viewer. Why, then, do we feel a certain nostalgia when we experience this sequence of events?

During a previous solo exhibition held in 2002, Takimoto said of his work: 

This work called “Waterfall”, in which I attempt to depict water by carving a block of wood, has absolutely no reality to it. The act of creating a waterfall consists in straying from its actual form. When I make a “waterfall”, what I am really doing is recreating the atmosphere that surrounds it – or at least trying to do so. It’s the same with how I go about making my sculptures. The first step is to create the part that represents the sky. In a certain sense, once that first component is in place, I can start by creating a form out of nothingness...

All art finally attains some form or other as the result of a creative act. Surrounded by countless things that we simply overlook or pass over, however, we tend to forget that the form of an object derives from an act of creation.

To put it another way, our modern information-oriented society allows us to come into contact with an entire panoply of cultural idioms and expressions, whether in the realm of fine art or otherwise: both old and new, from every single culture that has ever existed all over the world, in a form that is instantly obvious and readily comprehensible. This state of affairs, however, also means that we can no longer return to a time when artistic creation was guided by the act and process of form-making. The medium that Takimoto has chosen to devote his artistic career to has long been associated with divine spirits, deities and Buddhist iconography in the context of Japanese history. In Japan, the materials that have been cultivated and nurtured by the country’s natural, vernacular environment and history have always been inseparably tied to the artists and craftsmen who draw on these materials for their work.

What does it mean to sculpt, to create something out of nothing? What materials should the sculptor use? Which tools and techniques should he turn to in order to impart a shape and form to his creations?
As varieties of artistic expression continue to multiply, the processes related to the act of actually making something are neglected, yielding works that have lost their “feel” and sense of texture. This, then, is perhaps what remains to be done in our age – to discover how we can recover a certain sacred or divine texture that used to be embodied by the shape and form of an artwork.

Opening Talk
January 21 (Sat) 15:00-16:00
“What is to create, what is to be created”
Mitsukuni Takimoto×Takeshi Hayashi (Stone sculptor, Associate Professor, Department of Sculpture, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts)]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-21" start="16:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.664592</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1C4D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1C4D">
  <Name>Tatsuo Majima	&quot;Untitled (All the right moves)&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/83FBBC7D">
    <Name>Taro Nasu</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-2-11 Higashi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031</Address>
    <Phone>03-5856-5713</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5856-5714</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from Bakurocho Station on the JR Sobu line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</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>
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  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tatsuo Majima (b. 1970, Japan)'s works are based on his peculiar interest in fusion and collision between cultural differences among modern ages. Using various media such as texts, photographs, videos and performances, Majima creates his works with unique taste of humour.

This time, Majima presents the series of movie posters all starring Tom Cruise, an icon of the Hollywood movie culture since the 80's.

The poster evokes us of three aspects - Cruise as Hollwood icon, the image of typical hero and Cruise as real person in himself. However, at the same time, it suggests to us that no one could get hold of his real identity from here. This is Majima's examination into the impossibility of portraiture; questioning where personal/national identity exists.

The work was first exhibited in 1999. This exhibition will be the sequel to that former exhibition, constructing an  installation of Tom Cruise posters since 2000.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>11.1964</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="3" date="2012-01-28" start="18:30:00" end="20:00:00">Reception For The Artist</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.690086</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.784044</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1D57" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1D57">
  <Name>&quot;Pandemonium&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/2CA7F8F1">
    <Name>XYZ Collective</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>2-30-20 Tsurumaki, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0016</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>15 minutes walk from East exit of Komazawa Daigaku Station on the Tokyu Denentoshi line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Collaborative effort between XYZ Collective and young artist Tomohito Ishii, featuring a group of artists who each tackled the theme in their divergent ways.

Talk: February 26th (Sun) 14:00-15:00]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.44444</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>13:00-20:00, closed on Monday and Tuesday</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6331</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.654805</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1DF6" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1DF6">
  <Name>&quot;my home town&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/E23684A2">
    <Name>Tokyo Midtown Design Hub</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5th floor, Midtown Tower, 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6205</Address>
    <Phone>03-6743-3776</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6743-3778</Fax>
    <Access>Direct connection from exit 8 of Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo and Hibiya Lines, 3 minutes walk from exit 3 of Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features nostalgic notebooks from hundreds of designers, video artists and editors, reminiscing on their respective hometowns from all over Japan.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>13.3333</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="19:30:00" end="21:20:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.662961</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/20F4" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/20F4">
  <Name>Mike Abelson &quot;POSTALCO Wheel Printer&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/E603F237">
    <Name>Creation Gallery G8</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Recruit GINZA 8 Bldg. 1F, 8-4-17 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3575-6918</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3575-7077</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Shinbashi Station, 7 minutes walk from Ginza Station, 7 minutes walk from JR Yurakucho Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[POSTALCO is the name of a design studio originally opened by Mike and Yuri Abelson in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. It is also the brand name of their various lineups of highly practical products, most notably bags and stationery items. For this exhibition coming just over a decade since the pair shifted their base to Tokyo, Mike created a new kind of printer. He calls it a “Wheel Printer,” and the inspiration that led him to its invention was Mike’s wondering about what would happen if ink was applied to the wheels of a car or bicycle. What tracks would they leave? And if they all came together at a street intersection, just imagine the complex patterns. And so Mike set to creating a printer made with wheels. Structurally, what he devised is a configuration of different wheels attached in rows. Each wheel is inked and when a notebook or sheet of paper passes through, the wheels leave colored ink patterns. So just what patterns does it produce? Stripes? Diagonal lines? Triangles? Or maybe it prints some unintentional plaid patterns?

232nd Creative Salon
January 27 (Fri), 2012 7:10 p.m. – 8:40 p.m.
Participants: Mike and Yuri Abelson
Admission free. Reservations required. (TEL: 03-6835-2260)

Printing Demonstration:
January 17 (Tue) and February 4 (Sat), 2012
Details will be announced on the venue website.
POSTALCO’s newly invented Wheel Printer will be on display in the gallery, and Mike will be on hand to demonstrate how it actually works. The items created using the Wheel Printer, as well as POSTALCO’s other products, will also be on exhibit and available for purchase.

POSTALCO products are admired and widely sought out by people who appreciate how they came about and the way they revert to what is basic and familiar to us. We are confident that visitors will be attracted to POSTALCO’s creative style and philosophy.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>22.5588</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-16</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-17" start="19:00:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>1</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.665375</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.762689</Longitude>
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  <Name>&quot;7th HED Exhibition&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4A7633A9">
    <Name>Yokohama Creative City Center</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>6-50-1 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-8315</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Exit 1B from Bashamichi station on the Yokohama Minato Mirai line, 5 minutes walk from Sakuragicho station on the JR/Yokohama city subway line. 7 minutes walk from Kannai station on the JR/Yokohama city subway line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/2F10-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>3.04348</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-03-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 11:00~19:00</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-03-22" start="" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>42</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.446792</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.639019</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3628" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3628">
  <Name>Sinzow &quot;Gypsy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/58C849A4">
    <Name>Satoshi Koyama Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Shin-Miyako Bldg. 501, 3-2-12 Honmachi, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023</Address>
    <Phone>03-3275-9935</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from exit A10 at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Ginza line. 2 minutes walk from Nihonbashi Station on the JR Sobu line. 7 minutes walk from Kanda Station on the JR Yamanote line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>18:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on Saturdays from 12:00 to 19:00. Reservation only on Sundays</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Karma>9.7619</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-23</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Opening Hours: 18:30-21:00 (Wednesdays), 13:00-19:00 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays). Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, Sundays, National Holidays</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="17:00:00" end="19:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>8</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.685066</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.777446</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/386A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/386A">
  <Name>Satoru Arichi &quot;Batanes&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D63016C2">
    <Name>Ayumi Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>114 Yarai-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0805</Address>
    <Phone>03-3269-1202</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3269-1202</Fax>
    <Access>In front of Kagurazaka Station on the Tozai Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/386A-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.59788</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-22</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-18" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>7</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.700817</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.737878</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A85" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3A85">
  <Name>&quot;Digital Shock&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/A25AB86F">
    <Name>L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>15 Ichigaya, Funagawaracho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8415</Address>
    <Phone>03-5261-3933</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5261-3927</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit B3 at Iidabashi Station on the Tozai, Oedo, Yurakucho and Namboku Lines, or 7 minutes walk from the West Exit on the JR Sobu Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>mondays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the first time that the French Institute is organizing Digital Shock, a series of events that showcases French creativity in the field of digital culture and new images. The Institute will host original, interactive installations that immerse the viewer in alternative dimensions – those of time, memory and psychological and mental wanderings through social networks and new technologies.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>13.3594</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-07</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-08" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>21</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.695139</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.743061</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4398" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4398">
  <Name>”F.E.S. Yoshiaki Kuribara's Fantastic Eccentric Show with Dokuro All Stars&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/87DE7941">
    <Name>3331 Arts Chiyoda</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-6803-2441</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6803-2442</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Exit 4 at Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 7 minutes walk from Akihabara JR Station on the Yamanote line, 3 minutes walk from Yushima Station on the Chiyoda line</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</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: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We are glad to present Yoshiaki Kuribara's Fantastic Eccentric Show with Dokuro All Stars, the solo exhibition of the energetic artist Yoshiaki Kuribara to be held in the sports hall of 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Taking &quot;theme Park&quot; as his keyword, Kuribara will present numerous large scale works (both past work and new work) to form a highly original space within the sports hall. With support from the &quot;Dokuro All Stars&quot;, the exhibition space will be activated through performances and film screenings. Proposing a new concept of exhibition making, utilizing a space of 622 sqm, with a height of 6.7m, it is sure to be a giant show!

Who are Dokuro All Stars?
Dokuro All Stars is a term used to refer to members of the organization &quot;Dokuro Kogyo&quot; of which Kuribara is also a member. Dokuro Kogyo is a new platform that aims to support artists by conveying the importance of freedom. Forming a new kind of system, its members aim to concretely realize the function of art within society by testing various different enterprises, led by Satoshi Okada, the art collector and director of MAGIC ROOM???

Taking place at the same time!
On the first floor, &quot;3331 Gallery&quot; will be simultaneously presenting &quot;Yoshiaki Kuribara's Drawing Exhibition&quot;, providing the opportunity to view the drawings which Kuribara creates on a daily basis.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, College and High School students ¥800, Junior High School and Under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 12:00-19:00, Closed on Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-23" start="18:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774005</Longitude>
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  <Name>Ryuichi Abe + Tomoki Miyanaga &quot;unfeigned 2012 / Strawberry Field&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/FF39BB23">
    <Name>Nakameguro Camarada</Name>
    <Type>Cafe or Bar</Type>
    <Address>1-3-6 Higashiyama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0043</Address>
    <Phone>03-5721-6333</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5721-6333</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from Nakameguro station on the Toyoko line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>18:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>02:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/43D7-30" width="30" />
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  <Karma>1.34615</Karma>
  <Price free="0">free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-22" start="18:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.644033</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.6976</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/44BB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/44BB">
  <Name>Kosuke Ichikawa &quot;frozen&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/A64462FF">
    <Name>Sprout Curation</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-3-2-6F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone>03-3642-5039</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3642-5039</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo lines, 9 minutes walk from exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on Hanzomon line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With its original style of using delicate incense stick flames, Ichikawa’s work has been described as “Incense Sticks Painting, significantly redirecting the contemporary paintings into a completely different direction”. His work retraces  his own memories and invites us into experiences with its extremely fragile tension. Thirty-five new works will be presented in this exhibition.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>15.2679</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-04" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678167</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.796506</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4521" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4521">
  <Name>Daisuke Kiyomiya &quot;Primitive Line&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/9ADCD068">
    <Name>Diginner Gallery Workshop</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-11-2 Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-0035</Address>
    <Phone>03-6421-1517</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6421-1517</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Jiyugaoka Station on the Toyoko and Oimachi lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleNote>Open on the last day of each event until 17:00 only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Daisuke Kiyomiya works with staunchly analog techniques in order to create art that invites the viewer to appreciate the &quot;sentiment&quot; and &quot;intuition&quot; that lies within.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.04545</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 12:00-20:00</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.605091</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.672731</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4555" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4555">
  <Name>Shelter Serra + Ivory Serra &quot;Endless Time&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/73B7971D">
    <Name>B Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6F Beams Japan, 3-32-6, Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5368-7309</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from the South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</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>Irregular holidays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition showcases work by New York-based artists Shelter and Ivory Serra. In addition to sculptural installations by Shelter and photos taken in Cuba by Ivory, there will also be a selection of portraits of artists with whom the brothers have had a particular close relationship, such as Mark Gonzales and Barry McGee.

Talk: March 4th (Sun) 15:00-16:30
with guests Shinji Nomura (director of Cystem Gallery) and Yosuke Fujiki (B Gallery)
Reservations: 03-5368-7309]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-18" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>27</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.686992</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.707233</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/497A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/497A">
  <Name>Yoshinori Niwa &quot;Clapping bears in Bern&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/6B4DE589">
    <Name>NADiff a/p/a/r/t</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 1F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-3446-4977</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3446-4978</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="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Note:On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery and the shop is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces the artist's project from the Swiss city of Bern and its bears.

[Images: Yoshinori Niwa &quot;Sketch for the project Clapping bears in Bern&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>13.5961</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <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="2012/4ABE" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4ABE">
  <Name>Mineki Murata &quot;Daruma&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/685EA742">
    <Name>Art Center Ongoing</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-8-7 Kichijoji-Higashicho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-0002</Address>
    <Phone>0422-26-8454</Phone>
    <Fax>0422-26-8454</Fax>
    <Access>9 minutes walk from the North exit of Kichijoji station on the JR Chuo and Keio Inokashira lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Gallery open until 21:00.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Mineki Murata was born in Gunma in 1979 and graduated from Tama Art University in 2005. Since then he has been giving unique performances at various exhibitions and events throughout Japan, including the inaugural Aichi Triennale in 2010. Using his own body as a medium, Murata's performances consist of actions repeated again and again in relation to other objects. Previous performances involved making ballpoint drawings on dictionaries and photocopying paper, or using crayons to scrawl over a white dress shirt that he was wearing. 

For this exhibition, Murata will give performance every day throughout the duration of the exhibition. ]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4ABE-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥400 + 1 selected tea</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="19:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.705156</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.585883</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4C6E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4C6E">
  <Name>Masaki Hirano &quot;Habanneros: Cuba, 1992-1995&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/9227D564">
    <Name>Gallery Cosmos</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Tanimoto Bldg. 3F, 3-1-22 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0064</Address>
    <Phone>03-3495-4218</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3494-8622</Fax>
    <Access>12 minutes walk from Meguro Station on the JR Yamanote, Namboku and Tokyu Meguro lines.</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>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[From the &quot;Down the Road of Life&quot; series.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.44048</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-07" start="18:30:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.628903</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.710911</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4D89" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4D89">
  <Name>Ryohei Usui &quot;PET (Portrait of Encountered Things)&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/72BC4AC2">
    <Name>SNAC</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Watanabe Bldg. 1F, 2-12-6 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-6458-8225</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6458-8226</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from exit B2 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Toei Oedo lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, sundays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features sculptures made up of glass created in the shape of everyday plastic containers, playing with the appearance of crafts and lifestyle products.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4D89-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4D89-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>11.3799</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Saturdays and Sundays: 11:00-19:00. Exhibits cannot be viewed 2/27-3/5 </ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-28" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.677628</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.804931</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/544B" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/544B">
  <Name>Shinichi Toda Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/6DFC02B7">
    <Name>Neutron Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-17-14 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-3021</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3402-3021</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line.</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></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Turbulent wisps of smoke erupting atop a silent, monochrome surface.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/544B-30" width="30" />
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/544B-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>22.6203</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-01" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.665839</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.723481</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/55A7" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/55A7">
  <Name>Sachigusa Yasuda &quot;Aerial&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1915D570">
    <Name>Base Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Koura Daiichi Bldg. 1F, 1-1-6, Nihombashi-Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo</Address>
    <Phone>03-5623-6655</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5623-6656</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Exits 7-8 at Kayabacho Station on the Tozai and Hibiya Lines; 5 minutes walk from Exit D2 at Nihombashi Station on the Tozai and Asakusa Lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</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>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Her career started with photograph, drawing along with the extensional experiential installation based on the viewpoint from underneath of one's feet bottom. After receiving increased recognition in Japan, she moved to New York and her work undertook a major change with the application of a top-down view. Having created new work composed of some 300 photographs taken from a high altitude, she has since  participated in exhibitions at museums such as Sezon Museum of Modern Art and the National Art Center, Tokyo.

Yasuda has consistently picked out the narrow space on the top story of skyscrapers in metropolis all over the world as the standpoint for her own. While her work somewhat induces the fear of falling, they also give us the happiness of soaring high into the open sky. By presenting foremost conflicting emotions and feelings, Yasuda mildly sways us emotionally in an unquiet way. Although viewpoint in her works has been completely reversed, she has continually attempted to re-create the images according to her body and memories based on what her eyes catch in the real world. 

Her basic approach stays constant. However, the new works for this exhibition show us a new horizon applying a 360-degree view around herself. The sense of distance in each scenery is presented as her physical map. The images she creates are somewhat reminiscence Japanese paintings from the middle of the Edo period, in the respect that they are not only painted simply in perspective but acting up to the memories and the actual feeling of painters.

As the title “Aerial” implies, an overhead view in the new works is brought to the fore, revealing the inwardness of the artist.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/55A7-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>12.0484</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-13" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678128</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.78335</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BD8" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/5BD8">
  <Name>&quot;Valentine Ossu&quot; Event</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/2BDE530D">
    <Name>Vacant</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>3-20-13, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from Meiji JIngumae Station, 8 minutes walk from JR Harajuku Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</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>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[One-day only bar event with special sweets and drinks presented by members of the Ossu photo zine.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/5BD8-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.666803</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.711194</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/66E3" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/66E3">
  <Name>Kwan Sheung Chi &quot;Collected Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/E610C8D2">
    <Name>Yuka Tsuruno</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-30-9 Sekiguchi, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 112-0014</Address>
    <Phone>03-5272-2476</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5272-2476</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Waseda Station on the Toden-Arakawa line, 7 minutes walk from exit 1a at Edogawabashi Station on the Yurakucho line, 8 minutes walk from exit 3a at Waseda Station on the Tozai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kwan Sheung Chi (born in 1980) attracted attention for &quot;Teapoy&quot;, the artwork made by Kwan according to his mother's memory and which visualizes family history and human relationships, included in the &quot;Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005&quot; (Hong Kong Art Museum). The videos he has been working intensively on in recent years have brought him to international attention, and have been invited to many international exhibitions, such as &quot;Videozone V&quot; (Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010), and &quot;Homemade video from Hong Kong&quot; (National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, Arad Art Museum, Romania, 2011).

The common theme in his video works is an on-going wrestle with the duality of success and failure, and achievement and defeat. For example, &quot;Drinking a glass of hot chocolate with a folk&quot; is a record of Kwan drinking a full glass of hot chocolate using a fork. In &quot;Left vs. Right&quot;, he counts a winning rate of &quot;Rock, paper, scissors&quot; using his left hand vs. right hand. Through his work that is seemingly not advancing, we are invited to be witnesses of a life and and to come up with exit strategies out of our dualistic mind-set. The &quot;ONE MILLION (Japanese Yen)&quot;, a new video work made for this exhibition, counts a handful of bills until one million by repeating the video in the post-production process, expressing an ironic perspective on the principle of a monetary system and money game, the economic activity without reality.

The name of the show is &quot;Collected Works&quot;, including different works in addition to video, like a book which contains different works of an author. The &quot;Apple Core&quot; is a pack of apple juice. In a supermarket it is a drink, a consumer product; putting it in a gallery, people might think about how do we consume, what we're actually consuming. &quot;Lilies&quot; is a seemingly a bunch of lilies in a vase, but actually a collection of artificial lilies if you take a close look. Each branch is different from each other. Each factory making artificial lilies has its own concept, an ideal form of what the lily is and how it should be. The lilly collections are looking towards a common objective but none of them are the same; they all look different, they are all fake.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.85515</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Sundays &amp; Tuesdays</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-25" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.70735</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.728161</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6814" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/6814">
  <Name>Ken Nakazawa Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/149BF027">
    <Name>Ando Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>3-3-6 Hirano, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0023</Address>
    <Phone>03-5620-2165</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5620-2166</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk from exit B2 or 12 minutes from exit B3 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Toei Oedo lines. 15 minutes walk from exit 3 at Kiba Station on the Tozai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</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>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ken Nakazawa was born in Tokyo in 1970 and graduated from the department of painting at Tama Art University. Using wire, fiber threads and other objects with a weak sense of visual volume, Nakazawa creates spatial installations. This exhibition showcases a new installation, his first in 3 years, made up of slender steel rods.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/6814-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>15.0301</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-28</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-07" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>73</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.674164</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.808867</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6BF1" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/6BF1">
  <Name>Three &quot;three is a magic number 5&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B926470D">
    <Name>Megumi Ogita Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-16-12-B1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3248-3405</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3248-3405</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from exit A7 at Ginza Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[3 (three) consists of three artist members, Shuhei Sasaki, Hironori Kawasaki and Yoshitaro Koide. After the successful first solo exhibition at Showcase/ MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY in 2010, its art works have been presented at various showcases at overseas art fairs including Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles. 

The plastic figure dolls are nowadays found everywhere in Japan. The dolls are embodiments of characters from animations and video games, created based on virtual profiles including personalities, ages, body sizes and styles. 3(three) collects thousands of the figure dolls, breaks them into small pieces, and melts and sticks each by heating them, turning them into a block of new material. 

The colors of the skin, hair, and clothes of the dolls are merged to become a mass of vividly colored patterns with the basic tone of Asian skin.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>10.4276</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-10</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-14" start="17:30:00" end="19:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>24</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.667606</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.773333</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/79D7" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/79D7">
  <Name>Yuhei Saito Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/411CEF5C">
    <Name>Island Medium</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6-11-14-205 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 </Address>
    <Phone>03-5812-4945</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 7 minutes walk from JR Akihabara Station on the Yamanote line, 3 minutes walk from Yushima Station on Chiyoda line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist has previously worked mostly in irregular exhibition spaces and unusually here has turned to a normal gallery to show his work.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/79D7-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/79D7-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/79D7-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.34034</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-28" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774005</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/86B0" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/86B0">
  <Name>Schnabel Effects &quot;Portrait by Artbooks&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/47ED51E3">
    <Name>Gallery Target</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-32-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-4575</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3402-4575</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Meiji-Jingu Station on the Chiyoda line, 9 minutes walk from Kitasando Station on the Fukutoshin line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</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: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Schnabel Effects is known for its graphic design work on top magazines but in this exhibition will introduce its artbook work, revealing another side to the agency.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/86B0-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/86B0-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/86B0-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>9.64286</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-09" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.669053</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.712028</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/874F" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/874F">
  <Name>&quot;3rd Masuda!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/9EB16C9F">
    <Name>K's Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Plaza Kyobashi Bldg. 3F, 3-9-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031</Address>
    <Phone>03-5159-0809</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5579-9004</Fax>
    <Access>1 minutes walk from Takaracho Station on the Asakusa line, 3 minutes walk from Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>Saturdays and Sundays openinghour 11:30, closinghour 17:30</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/874F-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/874F-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/874F-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Until 20:00 on Fridays, 11:30-17:30 on Saturdays</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-20" start="17:00:00" end="19:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.671786</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774331</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8DC3" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/8DC3">
  <Name>Ryudai Takano &quot;Photo-Graph&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/081E684B">
    <Name>Yumiko Chiba Associates | Viewing Room Shinjuku</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Park Grace Shinjuku bldg. 206, 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023</Address>
    <Phone>03-6276-6731</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6276-6738</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk from exit A5 at Tochomae Station on the Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</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>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces new photographs, the first since Takano's photography book released in January 2011.

[Image: Ryudai Takano, &quot;11.10.18.bw&quot; (2011) Gelatin-silver print. 31.7 x 21.5cm (C) Ryudai Takano. Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates, Zeit-Foto Salon]]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/8DC3-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/8DC3-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/8DC3-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>15.3191</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-21" start="18:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.684008</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.69225</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>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/9ADA-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/9ADA-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/9ADA-170" width="170" />
  <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="2012/9D35" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/9D35">
  <Name>Taro Tamai &quot;The First Track&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/14F3C6FA">
    <Name>Slope Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-9-1-B1 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from Kitasando Station on the Fukutoshin line, 10 minutes walk from JR Harajuku Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display is a selection of works taken from Tamai's &quot;The First Track&quot; series.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/9D35-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/9D35-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-25" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.672766</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.712592</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A55C" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/A55C">
  <Name>Shimon Minamikawa &quot;Ace of Spades, Seven, King&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/FD57C8D8">
    <Name>Capsule</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-7-12 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0001</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from the South exit of Ikejiri-Ohashi Station on the Den-en toshi line, 10 minutes walk from the North exit of Sangenjaya Station on the Setagaya line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The exhibition started from playing cards. For the artist a &quot;playing card&quot; is making an artwork through the medium of duplication. The exhibition introduces his new puzzle book, &quot;The Playing Card&quot;, which uses letters, daily phrases and playing cards.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/A55C-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/A55C-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>5.88679</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 12:00-19:00. Open on Saturdays / Sundays only</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-22" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.643444</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.682005</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A82D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/A82D">
  <Name>Kaori Watanabe Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/7D6932B8">
    <Name>Imura Art Gallery Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Minato-Daisan Bldg. 4F, 3-7 Nishi-gokencho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0812</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Kagurazaka Station on the Tozai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's first solo show in three years, it is themed on the concept of &quot;good news&quot; and features an ambiguously mixed portrayal of hope and unease.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/A82D-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/A82D-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="17:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.70265</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.740242</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/AD67" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/AD67">
  <Name>Takuro Sugiyama + Toshiaki Hicosaka &quot;Dead Paintings&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/51A56F7D">
    <Name>Radium</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-5-17 Bakurocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0002</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from JR Bakurocho Station, 4 minutes walk from Asakusabashi Station on the JR and Asakusa Lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hicosaka and Sugiyama are two artists working with abstract paintings. This exhibition, as its title implies, deals with motifs of death.

[Image: Toshiaki Hicosaka &quot;Adidas&quot; (2012) Giclee, pencil, watercolor, pigment, pen on paper 110 × 156 cm ]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.81675</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 12:00-20:00. Closed on March 10th</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-17" start="19:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.692542</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.786956</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B16A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/B16A">
  <Name>&quot;Girls Illust Exhibition #17&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/81AE86A2">
    <Name>The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>12-9 Daikyocho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0015</Address>
    <Phone>03-3341-3253</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3341-3253</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from Yotsuya Sanchome Station on the Marunouchi Line, 7 minutes walk from Shinanomachi Station on the JR Sobu Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" 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: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Girly illustrations and handmade accessories in time for Valentine's day.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/B16A-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/B16A-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/B16A-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>2.28395</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="17:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.680804</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.721069</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C342" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/C342">
  <Name>Ami Clarke &quot;Be Seeing You&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/873C9909">
    <Name>The Container</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Hills Daikanyama 1F, 1-8-30 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0051</Address>
    <Phone>03-3770-7750</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Nakameguro Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>10:00 to 20:00 Saturday, Sunday and holiday</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ami Clarke is an artist whose practice often involves working with appropriated material. During extensive periods of research she responds to the material she finds mindful of the contributory factors of where and how the material she is drawn to is found.

Treating the collection of appropriated footage in a way more akin to a research project, the film: &quot;Be Seeing You&quot; explores the multiple perspectives afforded by film technology, and touches on relations between the audience and projected image.

The immersive environment creates a visual equivalent of certain kinds of auditory stimulation, an aural world, as M. McLuhan noted &quot;the ear favours no particular &quot;point of view&quot;... &quot;we are all enveloped by sound&quot;.

The emphasis on an experiential encounter with video that speaks perhaps of an authentic physiological experience whilst viewing, is complicated by the slippage that occurs between audio and visual affects, and the relentlessly hypnotic affect of the pulsing light.

The humour in the repeated 'takes', suggests a multitude of possibilities.

&quot;Humour as a system of communications and as a problem of our environment - of what’s really going on ... does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions. Older societies thrived on purely literary plots. They demanded story lines. Today’s humour, on the contrary, has no story line - no sequence. It is usually a compressed overlay of stories.&quot;

In a separate work she considers Julian Assange’s comments in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, where the affect of data/news being deleted from the internet, without anyone really noticing it has happened, is described as 'un-publishing'. In this way what was understood, briefly, as 'news', simply disappears.

The publication takes the premise of 'unaccountability' relating to the data stream found in this way on the internet, and more generally, the way in which there can be little certainty re data management, with the advent of digital media, to exact a broad license with the content material in her own artists publication, a 16-page text and visual work, free to take away from the exhibition.

Assange mentions that perhaps it is less difficult in the traditional print media of newspapers, to vanish away such unwanted news, as its material form will potentially still exist with a broad distribution of the paper.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C342-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C342-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>7.02283</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-23" start="19:30:00" end="21:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>54</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6429</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.703264</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C97B" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/C97B">
  <Name>Keizaburo Okamura Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/99C2698A">
    <Name>Gallery Kobayashi</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Yamato Bldg. 8F, 3-8-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3561-0515</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3561-7859</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from Ginza subway station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Keizaburo Okamura is an ambitious painter who refuses categorization within the field of &quot;nihonga&quot; painting. He prepares a first coat on scorched cedar boards, which he then carves and whittles away to create linear patterns and motifs consisting of both real and mythological creatures from Asian legends, such as dragons. This exhibition showcases several large folding screens that feature giant fish motifs.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C97B-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/C97B-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-20" start="17:30:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.668186</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.770542</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CC1E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CC1E">
  <Name>Yohei Izumi Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/6DFC02B7">
    <Name>Neutron Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-17-14 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-3021</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3402-3021</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line.</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></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Using yarn as a material, Izumi creates vague yet definite shapes within an ordered space.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/CC1E-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/CC1E-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/CC1E-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>17.5936</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-01" start="18:30:00" end="20:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.665839</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.723481</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D21E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/D21E">
  <Name>&quot;Media Art: Flow &amp; Bright&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/886471D5">
    <Name>Eye of Gyre</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2F, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3498-6990</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minute walk from Meijijingu Station on the Chiyoda Line.</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>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <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.

[Image: Motoshi Chikamori PulaPula Kyoko Kunou &quot;Tool's Life&quot; ©plaplax]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D21E-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D21E-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>52.4471</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed February 8th, 9th, 20th</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-25" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.664189</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.710114</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D401" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/D401">
  <Name>Motoko Otsuki + Toshiyuki Katsube + Saeko Kuwana &quot;Depth of field&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B257D4EE">
    <Name>Harmas Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-4-7 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone>03-3642-5633</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3642-5633</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from exit A3 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo lines, 11 minutes walk from exit A1 at Morishita Station on the Toei-Shinjuku line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display are photographic works by 3 artists: Motoko Otsuki works in a documentary style, recording landscapes and food with her camera, extracting only a vague essence from them and putting it on her canvas.Toshiyuki Katsube uses a mechanical pencil to draw grids that give his subjects the appearance of analog pixels. Saeko Kuwana will exhibit a series of delicately embroidered pieces that represent a new direction in her practice.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D401-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D401-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/D401-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>10.8159</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open only on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-11" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678126</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.798775</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DA7D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/DA7D">
  <Name>&quot;Indigo Cloth Prayer and Benediction: Guizhou Roketsuzome Dyeing&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/62DF3D4E">
    <Name>Japan-China Friendship Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1-5-3 Kouraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0004</Address>
    <Phone>03-3815-5085</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3811-5263</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from exit C3 at Iidabashi Station on the Oedo line, 10 minutes walk from Korakuen Station on the Marunouchi line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</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>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features Chinese traditional dyeing and textiles from certain ethnic groups.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DA7D-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DA7D-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-22</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 10:00-17:00. Closed on Mondays</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-31" start="15:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>7</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701061</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7512</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DC9E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/DC9E">
  <Name>MA &quot;BORN IN JAPAN 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.'&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/71B60BB2">
    <Name>No.12 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-29-13 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0064</Address>
    <Phone>03-3468-2445</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk from Higashikitazawa station on the Odakyu line, 8 minutes walk from Komabatoudaimae station on the Keio Inokashira line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</Area>
    <OpeningHour>13:00:00</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>Closed days depend on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features several paintings, drawings and collages from the artist's early period.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DC9E-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DC9E-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DC9E-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-24" start="17:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.660519</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.684792</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/DF14" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/DF14">
  <Name>Yuka Doutou &quot;Virus&quot;</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: Prints</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yuka Doutou's silkscreen prints have delicate, lace-patterned surfaces that reveal themselves to be made up of innumerable cats measuring from 5mm to 1cm across. These cats suffer from vomiting, diarrhea, and fever fits, propagating themselves into infinity.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DF14-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DF14-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/DF14-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>20.2167</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-02" start="18:00:00" end="19:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>12</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="2012/E17A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/E17A">
  <Name>Mao Ishikawa &quot;Here's What the Japanese Flag Means to Me&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/67122B49">
    <Name>Zen Foto Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Piramide Bldg 2F, 6-6-9 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></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>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Talk Event: February 5 (Sun), 15:00-16:00]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E17A-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E17A-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E17A-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>15.4074</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-05" start="15:00:00" end="16:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</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="2012/E909" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/E909">
  <Name>&quot;Enjoy Art for Family (February)&quot; Workshop</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/69C61601">
    <Name>ARCUS Studio</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>Moriya Manabinosato, 2418 Itatoi, Moriya-shi, Ibaraki 302-0101</Address>
    <Phone>0297-46-2600</Phone>
    <Fax>0297-46-2600</Fax>
    <Access>Take a bus bound for Shin Moriya Station departing from Moriya Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</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>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Once a month this workshop provides a chance to enjoy art with lots of different materials, such as clay or paper, for preschool children and their parents.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E909-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E909-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥300 per child (cost of materials) (reservation recommended)</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.962214</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.959047</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EB0E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/EB0E">
  <Name>Marijke van Warmerdam &quot;Haru&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DD74E81F">
    <Name>Taka Ishii Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-3-2-5F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone>03-5646-6050</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3642-3067</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo Lines; 9 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on the Hanzomon Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</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: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with Amsterdam based Marijke van Warmerdam. Van Warmerdam is particularly well known for her film loops, which radiate a crystal clear simplicity. In her recent work “Face to face”, a group of macaws circle round a tree, which appears to exert a strong force of attraction on the birds. The tree trunk has an anthropoid face. Could that be the reason for all the excitement? One might believe it is, particularly when one of the macaws goes and sits on the ‘chin’ of the tree and looks straight into the tree trunk’s eyes. But is it true?

Besides this film loop Van Warmerdam will present a series of paintings based upon film stills printed on canvas. Her film loops are characterized by visual reduction, velocity, repetition and simplicity, and these characteristic elements can also be found in these paintings.

In her film stills on canvas one can see sprigs moving so fast that the flowers have become mere streaks, almost as if someone picked up a brush and smeared the blossoms. And why not reproduce by the painter’s hand that frozen moment in film and grab a brush or a piece of wood and get to work? And so the artist began to make a reverse painting with a bucket and broom of what was already present; a frozen moment. ]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/EB0E-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/EB0E-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/EB0E-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.24049</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-25" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678167</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.796506</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EB7D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/EB7D">
  <Name>Makiko Tanaka &quot;Baroque Boogie&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D16002F0">
    <Name>H.P.France Window Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Marunouchi Bldg. 1F, 2-4-1 marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6301</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from JR Tokyo Station, Above Tokyo Marunouchi Station, 2 minutes walk from Exit 7 at Nijubashi Station on the Chiyoda Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>sundays closinghour 20:00, holidays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
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  <Description><![CDATA[The artist's first solo show at the gallery in five years showcasing her return to the pencils and watercolors she utilized in the early stages of her career, creating poetic images.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
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  <Name>Bin Sugawara &quot;Poetry x Embroidery&quot;</Name>
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    <Name>Tokyo Cultuart by Beams</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>3-24-7-3F Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3470-3251</Phone>
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    <Access>10 minutes walk from JR Harajuku Station, 8 minutes walk from Meiji-Jingumae Harajuku Station on the Chiyoda line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In commemoration of a book publication, this exhibition showcases the work of poet Bin Sugawara.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-21</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;The Magic of Appearance&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>Aisho Miura Arts</Name>
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    <Address>2-17-3-B1F Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002</Address>
    <Phone>03-6427-7173</Phone>
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    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
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  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-18</DateEnd>
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  <Name>&quot;The Scene&quot; Exhibition</Name>
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    <Name>hpgrp Gallery Tokyo</Name>
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    <Address>CH Bldg. B1F, 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3797-1507</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6805-0840</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Omotesando Station on the Chiyoda, Hanzomon and Ginza Lines.</Access>
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  <Description><![CDATA[Group exhibition by 5 artists that explores the &quot;power of a single photograph&quot;.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
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  <Name>&quot;Valentine Modern Art 2012&quot; Exhbition</Name>
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    <Name>B-gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-31-6 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-3989-8608</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3989-8608</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Metropolitan exit at JR Ikebukuro station, 8 minutes walk from JR Mejiro station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
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    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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  <Description><![CDATA[Heart- and love-themed works by 33 artists including Jime Dine, Kotobuki Shiagari and Mika Ninagawa.]]></Description>
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  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
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