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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/09E8" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/09E8">
  <Name>&quot;Adolescent Dreams: Yozo Hamaguchi&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/3C5B26C7">
    <Name>Musee Hamaguchi Yozo / Yamasa Collection</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1-35-7 Kakigaracho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0014</Address>
    <Phone>03-3665-0251</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3665-0257</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from exit 3 at Suitengumae subway station, 8 minutes walk from Ningyo-cho subway station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 10:00, sundays openinghour 10:00, holidays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery is open but closed on the following Tuesday. Closed on the new year holidays, summer holidays and during changing exhibitions.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yozo Hamaguchi was a leading Japanese printmaker who pioneered the mezzotint method of copper engraving in the 1950s while in France. In addition to Hamaguchi's copper etchings, this winter collection exhibition showcases a selection of paintings from his adolescent days, including still lifes, watercolor landscapes and pencil drawings. The exhibition is divided into two periods, with 25 different artworks on display in each part for a total of 50 exhibits.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/09E8-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>1.88764</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥600, University and High School Students ¥400, Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥200</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 26th through January 6th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678436</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.789147</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/295C" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/295C">
  <Name>&quot;The Beauty of Court Clothing, A Trip with Stamps&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C61E2001">
    <Name>Communications Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-3-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004</Address>
    <Phone>03-3244-6821</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>A5 Exit at Otemachi station on the Marunouchi line or 10 minutes walk from Marunouchi North Exit at Tokyo Station on the JR line</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:30:00</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: Product</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[140 years has passed since the birth of the Japanese post office in 1874 and its first stamps. This exhibition introduces Japanese postage stamp designs along with exhibits of clothing from the Imperial court.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/295C-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.65047</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥110, Students under 18 ¥50 (Free admission on Sundays and holidays)</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.683586</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.770106</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/2E73" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/2E73">
  <Name>&quot;University of Tsukuba Ishii Collection&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/768FDE7E">
    <Name>Kichijoji Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>FF Bldg. 7F, 1-8-16 Kichijoji Hommachi, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-0004</Address>
    <Phone>0422-22-0385</Phone>
    <Fax>0422-22-0386</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Kichijoji Station on the JR and Keio Inokashira lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed every last Wednesdays and for the new year holidays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features 200 ceramics and paintings works from Akira Ishii, part of the collection of the University of Tsukuba.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>8.61702</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥100, Free for Seniors (65 or over) &amp; Junior High School Students and below &amp; Handicapped.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on January 25th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701786</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.582267</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/31D8" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/31D8">
  <Name>Kenji Yanobe &quot;Sun Child, Child of Taro&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B2F3F340">
    <Name>Taro Okamoto Memorial museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>6-1-19 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062</Address>
    <Phone>03-3406-0801</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3409-5404</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from Omotesando Station, 2 minutes walk from Minami Aoyama bus stop</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The last in a series of events held to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Taro Okamoto, this exhibition showcases the work of Kenji Yanobe, who grew up playing on the site of the 1970 Osaka World Expo. The highlight of the show is a large sculpture called &quot;Sun Child&quot; that was made specially for this exhibition.

Gallery talks: November 30th, December 14th, January 18th, February 8th (all Wed, at 14:00).

[Image: Kenji Yanobe, “Sun Child” (2011) drawing]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/31D8-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>6.88657</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥600, Elementary School Student ¥300</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-10-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.658061</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.718831</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4799" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/4799">
  <Name>Tadao Umesao Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/22002A30">
    <Name>National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064</Address>
    <Phone>03-3570-9151</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3570-9150</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from Funenokagakukan Station or Telecom Center Station on the Yurikamome Line; 15 mins from Tokyo Teleport Station on the Rinkai Line. By bus or car, see info on their site.</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Opens during National holidays, Spring/Summer/Winter vacations, closes from 28th of Dec to 1st of Jan.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Tadao Umesao is well known as an ethnologist and comparative anthropologist. This exhibition features resources that he used to write his bestselling books, and will introduce the fruits of his intellectual labors, and the wealth of knowledge that he has passed down to us. Visitors will also be able to contribute to a &quot;message for humanity&quot;, which displays the recommendations of leading global figures. 

[Image: Courtesy of Yomiuri Shimbun]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/4799-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>13.1652</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, 18 or under ¥200</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-20</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>5</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.616106</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.780417</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4C03" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/4C03">
  <Name>&quot;Visual Circus&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DA237357">
    <Name>Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>3-12-63, Kamiaoki, Kawaguchi, Saitama　333-0844</Address>
    <Phone>048-265-2500</Phone>
    <Fax>048-265-2628</Fax>
    <Access>12 minutes by bus from Nishi-Kawaguchi Station on JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, 10 minutes by bus from Hatogaya station on the Saitama railway line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</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 venue is open blut closed on the following tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces the work of artists and groups that merge video footage with performance, two media forms that at first glance may not seem to work together harmoniously. Featured artists include off-Nibroll, AR Sankyodai (Augmented Reality Three Brothers) and Maywa Denki. During the three-month exhibition period there will also be performances and the exhibition area will be transformed into a vivid, varied space.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/4C03-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>5.26446</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥250</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>9:30-17:00 (Admission until 16:30), Closed 12/29-1/3 &amp; 3/21-23</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>53</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.823886</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.723828</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/51CA" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/51CA">
  <Name>&quot;The World of Junzo Ishiko: Bound for Kitsch, via Manga&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DE1022E7">
    <Name>Fuchu Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Sengen-cho 1-3, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-0001</Address>
    <Phone>042-336-3371</Phone>
    <Fax>042-335-7576</Fax>
    <Access>15 minutes walk from Higashi-Fuchu Station on the Keio Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>closed Tuesday if the Monday is a public holiday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>2D: Prints</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Junzo Ishiko (1928-77) was an art critic whose gaze extended beyond the purview of fine art to cover manga, theater, stage arts, popular entertainment, and various other odds and ends of the cultural spectrum. This exhibition is an attempt to cast new light on Japanese art of the 1960s and 70s through Ishiko's eyes.

See website for more details on related events.

[Image: Junzo Ishiko (1970) photo by Norio Horikawa]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/51CA-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>37.1388</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥700, University/High School Students ¥350, Junior High/Elementary School Students ¥150</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 29th - January 3rd, Closed on January 10th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.675483</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.495256</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/65EC" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/65EC">
  <Name>&quot;Aesthetics of the Samurai&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C2046006">
    <Name>Seikado Bunko Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-23-1 Okamoto, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0076</Address>
    <Phone>03-3700-0007</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>From Futago Tamagawa Station on Denen Toshi line, take the Tokyu bus #1 to Seikado Bunko.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shibuya_setagaya">Shibuya, Setagaya</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>16:30:00</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: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display are old short swords from the Warring States period and longer weapons dating from the Edo period, as well as ceremonial objects and accessories that speak of the culture of their time.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.08394</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥800, Students ¥500, Middle School and below free.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.619244</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.622461</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/69BB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/69BB">
  <Name>&quot;Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/603694BD">
    <Name>Yokohama Museum Of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 220-0012</Address>
    <Phone>045-221-0300</Phone>
    <Fax>045-221-0317</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk using &quot;moving walk way&quot; from Sakuragicho station on the JR, Tokyu Toyoko or Yokohama lines. 3 minutes walk from the &quot;Museum&quot; exit at Mimatomirai station on the Minatomirai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is Fuyuko Matsui's first large-scale solo show at a public art museum. Her work was previously included in a group exhibition of nihonga painters at this museum in 2006.

Matsui was born in Morimachi, Shizuoka prefecture in 1974 and studied nihonga painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her graduation work took the notion of psychological and physical pain as its starting point, and her subsequent works have centered on provocative themes such as terror, madness, narcissism, sex, birth and death.

On display will be a selection of her most representative works, drafts and rough sketches, including some 80 new pieces created expressly for this exhibition. There will also be screenings of videos and films that represent Matsui's first attempt at art direction.

See website for details on related talks and other events.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/69BB-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>141.332</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, University Students and High School Students ¥700, Junior High Students ¥400, Elementary School Students and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed from December 29th - January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.453511</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.633489</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/72B1" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/72B1">
  <Name>Eikoh Hosoe Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/F3CA8ED0">
    <Name>BLD Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>SPP Ginza Bldg 8F, 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-5524-3903</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5524-3901</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from the JR Yurakucho Station, 2 minutes walk from exit A13 and B4 at Ginza Station on the Marunouchi line, 2 minutes walk from exit 5 at Ginza-itchome 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="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 Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Eikoh Hosoe was born in 1931 and held his first solo exhibition in 1956. Famed for his portraits of figures like Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata, his images became representative of the postwar period. This exhibition includes many of his masterpieces that dissect the era, divided into six periods.

See gallery website for details of talk events, featuring the photographer and other culture figures such as Donald Keene.

[Image: © Eikoh Hosoe (1971)]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/72B1-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>20.2792</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-06</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-13</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open everyday during exhibition period</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>88</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.670454</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.769376</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/7F45" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/7F45">
  <Name>Hiroji Noda Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/62826D7D">
    <Name>The National Art Center, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>In front of exit 6 of Nogizaka station on the Chiyoda line, 4 minutes walk from exit 7 of Roppongi station on the Oedo and Hibiya lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Tuesday, the museum is open, but closed on the following Wednesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Recognized for his artistic talents at a young age, Hiroji Noda (born in 1952) became the youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition at Minami Gallery in 1977, the year after he had graduated from Tama Art University. In the Eighties, however, NODA embarked on a variety of explorations in an effort to discover new possibilities in painting. In this exhibition, we survey the artist’s over 30-year career with 140 works that have emerged from his continually evolving approach, and examine the effect that NODA’s experiments have had on the Japanese art scene.

Noda's exploration of the essence of painting began with box-shaped forms that were in effect a kind of relief. The artist continued to develop this approach in the mid-Eighties, creating a unique painting style in which he covered the support medium with a sack-like fabric. Then in the Nineties, Noda added further depth to his work by sewing, folding back, and layered the canvas. But around 2000, he gradually turned to a flat foundation, and transformed the picture plane with the freewheeling depiction of unusual images. Finally, in recent years, Noda has created series based on specific themes, and focused on combinations of works while also placing greater emphasis on the manner in which they are displayed.

Noda has remained actively engaged in showing his work, but there has rarely been an opportunity to survey his entire career, from the early period to the present. We hope that this exhibition will provide greater insight into how Noda has developed his artistic philosophy as well as shedding light on how his ideas are transformed into actual works. And in addition to tracing the trajectory of this outstanding artist’s career, we hope to encourage reflection on future directions in painting.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/7F45-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>7.06481</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, University Students ¥500, High School and under free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-02</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>47</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.661836</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.729619</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/7FE5" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/7FE5">
  <Name>&quot;sogno / dream: Sculpture Eiji Nitahara and the Next Generation&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/05C662FE">
    <Name>The Sato Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>31-10 Daikyocho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0015</Address>
    <Phone>03-3358-6021</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3358-6023</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from Sendagaya Station on the JR Sobu Line, 6 minutes walk from Shinanomachi Station on the JR Sobu Line, 4 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kokuritsu-Kyogijo Station on the Oedo Line,</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features the work of Eita Nitahara and ten other younger sculptors continuing in his footsteps.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/7FE5-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>1.38528</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, Students ¥300, Free for Junior High Students and Younger</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Mondays</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678372</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.718206</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/8F00" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/8F00">
  <Name>&quot;The Garden of Mirei Shigemori&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/7879E100">
    <Name>Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-7-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-3001</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3405-7714</Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from exit 3 at Gaienmae Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>wednesdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>The Museum is open on public holiday Mondays and Mondays during December. Closed on the new year's holiday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Mirei Shigemori is a well-known modern Japanese garden artist who surveyed over 400 classical Japanese gardens starting in 1936. The landscape designer learnt his craft through self-study, eventually designing around 200 different sites. This exhibition will seek out the essence of the Japanese aesthetic he explored, introducing Shigemori the man, as well as his landscape designs through models and the surveys he made of traditional gardens.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/8F00-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/8F00-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>46.3084</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, Students ¥800</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 31st - January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2011-12-03" start="17:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.667467</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.716628</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/A985" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/A985">
  <Name>Yumeji Takehisa &quot;Minato-ya and Taisho Romantic Design&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4002E2B3">
    <Name>Takehisa Yumeji Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-4-2 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032</Address>
    <Phone>03-5689-0462</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Nezu Station on the Chiyoda Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Yumeji Takehisa was a well-known “Taisho Romantic” painter and poet. In 1914, a shop focusing on paper crafts, stationery and daily goods designed by Takehisa called Minato-ya opened in Nihombashi, becoming an influential tastemaker in the field of design. This exhibition looks back on the early days of Takehisa’s career as a painter, introducing viewers to the social customs and culture of the Taisho era (1912-1926). 

Gallery talks: January 8th (Sun), February 12th (Sun), March 11th (Sun) at 15:00

[Image: Yumeji Takehisa (1914)] 
]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/A985-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/A985-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>4.35064</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥900; College and High School Students ¥800; Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥400</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on January 9th, closed on January 10th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>46</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.711633</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.766758</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/B374" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/B374">
  <Name>Motoi Yamamoto Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/A575A177">
    <Name>Hakone Open Air Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1121 Ninotaira, Hakone-Machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa-ken 250-0407</Address>
    <Phone>0460-82-1161</Phone>
    <Fax>0460-82-1169</Fax>
    <Access>JR Odawara Station - Odakyu Line Hakone Yumoto Station - Hakone Tozan Railway to Chokoku No Mori Station, 2 min Walk to the Hakone Open-Air Museum  JR Odawara Station - Odakyu Line Hakone Yumoto Station - Hakone Tozan Bus to Gora Iriguchi Station, 5 min W</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>From December to February, the museum opens only until 16:00.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of exhibitions featuring new modes of expression in contemporary art. Motoi Yamamoto creates intricate installations in which he traces labyrinthine patterns out of salt scattered onto the floor. Using some 7 tons of salt, Yamamoto will present works that express the relationship of man to nature, as well as a contemporary viewpoint on life and death inspired by the passing of his younger sister at the tender age of 24.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/B374-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/B374-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.02496</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1600, Senior ¥1100, University and High School ¥1100, Elementary and Junior High School ¥800</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-07-30</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.240975</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.053464</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/BC3D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/BC3D">
  <Name>Rika Noguchi &quot;The light reaching the future&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C047AAD2">
    <Name>Izu Photo Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>347-1 Higashino Clematis no Oka, Nagaizumi-cho, Shizuoka 411-0931</Address>
    <Phone>055-989-8780</Phone>
    <Fax>055-989-8783</Fax>
    <Access>From JR Mishima Station, take the free shuttle bus from the north exit (25 min).</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on the new year holidays and during changing exhibitions. On a Public Holiday Wednesday, the museum is open but closed on the following Thursday. Closing time varies depending on the season.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The shadow of a small person stands still on the horizon line. A person walks on a roof. A leaf floats on water and light glistens from it. The place in Japan closest to space, Mt. Fuji — what’s visible from its peak.

Small spaces and big, going back and forth between the microscopic and macroscopic with an original point of view, Rika Noguchi photographs a world overflowing with wonder. Choosing a subject that touches upon the riddle of the planet and its human dwellers, with the transparent quality of her color palette and elegance, she demonstrates a power of expression that is rich in poetic sentiment, garnering high praise both in Japan and abroad. When Noguchi started exhibiting her work in the first half of the 1990s in Japan, use of compact cameras was broadly adopted, affecting big changes in photography. This time was considered to be when a new generation for photographers emerged. Among these new artists Noguchi got a lot of attention early on for her independent style and photographs that pursued the domain of sight. In the almost twenty years of artistic activity since, her work has been exhibited in many international contemporary art exhibitions. 

The stance of Noguchi's creative process is to approach the freeness of photography as a medium, which relates to the eager quest of the new work included in this current exhibition.

[Image: Rika Noguchi, 'Fujiyama #17' (1997)]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>10.3259</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥800, University &amp; High School Students ¥400, Middle School Students and Under Free </Price>
  <DateStart>2011-09-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed December 26th to January 5th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.168661</Latitude>
  <Longitude>138.877092</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/BE1F" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/BE1F">
  <Name>Mao Ishikawa &quot;Port Town Elegy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/16A83A7D">
    <Name>Kula photo gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-16-11-4F Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5368-2631</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5368-2631</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from exit C7 or C8 at Shinjuku-sanchome station on the Shinjuku line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display are photos from Ishikawa's series (1983-6) documenting the Okinawa where she was born and grew up in, displayed across two venues (Photographers' Gallery and Kula Photo Gallery).]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.21875</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open from 12:00 to 20:00 </ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688229</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.712021</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/CEBF" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/CEBF">
  <Name>Takeshi Kitamura &quot;Master of Contemporary Weaving&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/86B92909">
    <Name>Crafts Gallery at the National Museum of Modern Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0091</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from exit 1b at Takebashi Station on the Tozai line, 12 minutes walk from exit 2 at Kudanshita Station on Tozai, Hanzomon and Shinjuku lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Takeshi Kitamura (b. 1935) is designated a Living National Treasure or a holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property for his mastery over the techniques called ra and nishiki (brocade). Equating the formation of textile with expression, Kitamura has used the intricately intertwining warp within the thickness of about one millimeter to produce cloth that impresses us with its quiet movement and depth. This show introduces Kitamura’s works spanning his entire career to lead the viewers into a world of woven structure with rich contrast.

[Image: Takeshi Kitamura &quot;Rakin type silk, six-petal plum blossom pattern&quot; (1997) ]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/CEBF-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/CEBF-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>7.43406</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, University Students ¥300</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on March 19th, 26th, April 2nd</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>60</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.686294</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.753706</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/E1F8" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/E1F8">
  <Name>&quot;Epic Comic Legend, Kinya Ueki&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/266DB775">
    <Name>Yayoi Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2-4-3 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032</Address>
    <Phone>03-5689-0462</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Nezu Station on the Chiyoda Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kinya Ueki is a comic artist who continues to pursue new artistic possibilities even at the venerable age of 90. He first attracted legions of young fans with his sword-fighting period dramas, featuring epic brawls and battles where villains are cut down in quick succession. This exhibition focuses on Ueki’s period drama comics and historical epics, showcasing some 450 pieces including nihonga paintings and film posters. 

Gallery talk and autograph session: 
February 11th (Sun), March 17th (Sat), March 24th (Sat) 
Talk starts 14:00, autograph session from 15:00 (for those who purchase one of Ueki's books at the venue)]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/E1F8-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/E1F8-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>5.40859</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥900, College and High School Students ¥800, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥400</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on January 9th, closed on January 10th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>46</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.71175</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.766592</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/F27B" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/F27B">
  <Name>&quot;The Splendor of the Khitan Dynasty&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/C621C7A4">
    <Name>Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>53-2 Yada, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken 422-8002</Address>
    <Phone>054-263-5858</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes by the Shizutetsu Bus from JR Kusanagi station, 15 minutes by taxi from Shizuoka station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</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. From May to September the museum closes at 20:00 on Saturdays.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Furniture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Looks at the wonders of the Khitan dynasty that existed one thousand years ago in the highlands in the chaos following the decline of the Tang dynasty. There will be many important cultural artefacts exhibited, including beautifully decorated ornaments, glassworks and ceramics, including 50 items on public display for the first time.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/F27B-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2011/F27B-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.483288</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1200, University and High School Students and Seniors ¥600, Middle School Students and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for New Year holiday: December 29 to January 1</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>34.988569</Latitude>
  <Longitude>138.449331</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/07BD" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/07BD">
  <Name>&quot;Aurora Seen From Space 2012&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5F87B487">
    <Name>Konica Minolta Plaza</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Shinjuku Takano Bldg. 4F, 3-26-11 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-3225-5001</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3225-0800</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from East exit of Shinjuku Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</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>Last day until 15:00 only.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features aurora photographs taken from the International Space Station and other photographs taken from space using a camera co-developed by JAXA and NHK.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/07BD-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/07BD-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/07BD-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>14.0476</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-20</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688636</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.705197</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0EB1" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/0EB1">
  <Name>&quot;Naoki Ishikawa -The Seven Continents&quot; Talk 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 Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Presented by TOO MUCH magazine, this talk by photographer Naoki Ishikawa will focus on the Ogasawara islands, which joined UNESCO's list of World Natural Heritage sites in July 2011. Ishikawa will talk about the unique charm of these islands and their long, complex history.

Reservations: booking@n0idea.com
03-6459-2962 (VACANT)]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0EB1-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0EB1-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥1000 (includes zine)</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>35.666803</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.711194</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0FBB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/0FBB">
  <Name>&quot;DNP Graphic Design Archive Exhibition IV: Ikko Tanaka Posters 1980-2002&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1562CC09">
    <Name>Ginza Graphic Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>DNP Ginza Building 1st floor, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3571-5206</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3289-1389</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from the Ginza station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines.</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>saturdays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[It has been ten years since the death of Ikko Tanaka, the star of Japan's graphic design world. Following on from previous exhibitions that introduced his posters from prior decades, this event features around 150 works from the Eighties and Nineties.]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0FBB-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0FBB-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/0FBB-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>19.5564</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-13</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>10</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.666464</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.765742</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/11F7" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/11F7">
  <Name>Kunio Kato Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/90C25591">
    <Name>Hachioji Yume Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2F View Tower Hachiouji, 8-1 Youkamachi, Hachioujishi, Tokyo 192-0071</Address>
    <Phone>0426-21-6777</Phone>
    <Fax>0426-21-6776</Fax>
    <Access>15 minutes walk from the North exit of JR Hachioji station on Chuo line, 18 minutes walk from Keio Hachioji station on Keio line, near the bus stop &quot;Yokamachi 1 chome&quot;.</Access>
    <Area areaId="musashino_tama">Musashino, Tama</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following day.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kunio Kato is an Academy award-winning animator who began making works while still a student at Tama Art University. This exhibition showcases sketches and original illustrations that inspired his 2009 masterpiece &quot;Tsumiki no ie&quot;, as well as &quot;Jokei&quot;, a new short film made specially for this show.

[Image: &quot;Tsumiki no ie&quot; 2008, ©ROBOT]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/11F7-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/11F7-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.96857</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, Students (from elementary school to university students) and Seniors ¥250</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 10:00-19:00</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.657286</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.334019</Longitude>
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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" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <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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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/15A1-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/15A1-170" width="170" />
  <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>
  <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="2012/16A5" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/16A5">
  <Name>Jackson Pollock &quot;A Centennial Retrospective&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1AA8A2F2">
    <Name>The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Exit 1B at Takebashi Station on the Tozai Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on the new year holidays and during changing exhibitions. On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Immediately after World War II, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) altered the concept of painting significantly by means of an original style and technique in which he sprinkled paint all over a canvas spread on the floor. The art he produced during his brief 44-year long lifetime enabled him to become the first American artist to win truly international fame and today he is recognized all over the world as a cultural hero of the United States.

Although Pollock has also been highly acclaimed in Japan, exhibitions fully covering his work have not yet been held here. This exhibition is held in commemoration of the centennial of Pollock’s birth.

Comprised of works dating from his art student years, the acme during which he established his fame, and the later years when he was tormented by the decline in his creative ability, it is the first major exhibition to be held in Japan tracing the great marks he left on the art world.

There are works from foreign collections, including major works belonging to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Together with all the works by Pollock that are currently known to be housed in Japan, approximately seventy exhibits will be gathered under one roof.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/16A5-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/16A5-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>56.9581</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1500, University Students ¥1200, High School Students ¥800</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday except: March 19th, March 26th, April 2nd and April 30th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.687275</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7579</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1D57" 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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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/1D57-80" width="80" />
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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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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/1DF6-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/1DF6-170" width="170" />
  <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>
  <Longitude>139.734464</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/24A9" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/24A9">
  <Name>Saori Ono Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/FED42A18">
    <Name>Sagamihara Civic Art Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Station Building NOW 4F, 1-1-3 Sagamihara, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa 252-0231</Address>
    <Phone>042-776-1262</Phone>
    <Fax>042-776-1895</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Sagamihara Station on the JR Yokohama line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed around the end of year celebrations.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features work with a mysterious talismanic atmosphere.

[Image: Saori Ono (2011)]]]></Description>
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/24A9-30" width="30" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/24A9-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>0.689514</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open Hours: 9:00-20:00</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.577842</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.374186</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/296D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/296D">
  <Name>Tochka Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/F529A447">
    <Name>Kawasaki City Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1-2 Todoroki, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 211-0052</Address>
    <Phone>044-754-4500</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes by bus from the North Exit of Musashikosugi Station on the JR Nanbu, Tokyu Toyoko and Meguro Lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</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>The gallery is open on public holiday Mondays, but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features the artist's early &quot;PiKA PiKA&quot; project work produced in various countries and regions around the world, along with workshops, new work and photographs documenting his career.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/296D-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>8.75245</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>46</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.585139</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.650578</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/32EE" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/32EE">
  <Name>&quot;Distant Road&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5670A893">
    <Name>Tenshin Memorial Museum Of Art, Ibaraki</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2083 Tsubaki, Otsu-cho, Kitaibaraki-shi, Ibaraki-ken 319-1703</Address>
    <Phone>0293-46-5311</Phone>
    <Fax>0293-46-5711</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes by taxi from Otsuko station on the JR Joban line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</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>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features a range of traditional Japanese painting from the ages, including the post-Meiji period Nihonga style, and the works developed post-war by organizations and events like the Nitten and Inten public exhibitions.

41 contemporary Nihonga artists will present 51 large-scale works that have won awards at public exhibitions since the Nineties.

[Image: Itsuki Miya (2003)]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/32EE-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>0.711864</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥600, University and High School Students ¥400, Junior High School and Elementary School Students ¥200</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>36.835958</Latitude>
  <Longitude>140.803067</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A25" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3A25">
  <Name>&quot;Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2012&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D0F45C7B">
    <Name>Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 Space</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>1-1 Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0001</Address>
    <Phone>045-211-1515</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from Nihon Odori or Bashamichi Stations on the Minato Mirai Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</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 Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[TPAM is an international platform for performing arts.

It is a place for “Meeting” consisting of a discussion/presentation section for the improvement and development of activities in the performing arts sector through networking professionals and a performance section for discovering and introducing works that are responsive to the contemporary reality. 

It has almost been a year since the 3/11. The disaster of the earthquake and tsunamis and the accident of the nuclear power plant have been undermining the condition of survival and the structure of society. TPAM in Yokohama 2012 tries to be a response to the situation in the belief that performing arts relate deeply to the fundamentals.

Please see the event website for further details of performances, showcases, talk events and the industry booth fair.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/3A25-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>4.49275</Karma>
  <Price free="0">One Day Pass: ¥3500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-19</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>February 17 (Fri), February 18 (Sat): from 16:30. February 19 (Sun): from 14:00 and 19:30</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>4</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.44915</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.64725</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4392" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4392">
  <Name>Aya Murata Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/079C21E1">
    <Name>INAX Gallery 1 &amp; 2</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>INAX Ginza 2F, 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031</Address>
    <Phone>03-5250-6530</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5250-6549</Fax>
    <Access>1 minutes walk from Kyobashi Station, 3 minutes walk from Ginza-1-chome or Takaramachi Station, 7 minutes walk from JR Yurakucho Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Ceramics</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The artist uses plant and animal motifs in her sculptures, with vibrant colors with a feeling of beauty, while the form of the sculptures have a real life force.

This exhibition features work previously shown in Taiwan, as well as other new pieces.

[Image: Aya Murata (2011) Photo: Chiu Te-hsin]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4392-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4392-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>1.67472</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-07</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>15</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="2012/4432" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4432">
  <Name>&quot;MAM Project 016: Ho Tzu Nyen&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/61183FDF">
    <Name>Mori Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>To Roppongi Hills, 10 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, 4 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Azabu Juban station on the Toei Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Based in Singapore, Ho Tzu Nyen presents his works throughout the world—in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, and more—and he has gained prominence at numerous international Biennale and international film festivals. Ho participated in the 2011 Venice Biennale as a representative of Singapore, exhibiting his new work &quot;The Cloud of Unknowing&quot; (2011 - 2012), which was the talk of the town.

Ho reveals the imaginary that lies dormant as shared memory in historical fact and reality. His expression spans myriad planes, working mainly with video in installations, theatre, participatory projects, improvisational collaboration with musicians, and more. Ho has recently been exploring the relationship between image and sound in particular, and by exhibiting &quot;The Cloud of Unknowing&quot; anew as a four-channel video sound installation at this first solo exhibition in Japan, he aims to have the audience experience changes of space in the story caused by synergies of the video and sound. His &quot;Bohemian Rhapsody&quot; (2006), and &quot;Newton&quot; (2009) are also exhibited. His poetic and theatrical world presents the lessons and philosophy comprised by history and legends, and it offers the opportunity to consider what reality is.

ARTIST TALK (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Speaker: Ho Tzu Nyen
Date: 14:00 -15:30 Saturday, 4 February 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)

Curator's Talk &quot;The Power Of Imagination In Historical Narrative&quot; (Japanese only)
Speaker: Tsubaki Reiko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 19:00 -20:30 Friday, 9 March 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4432-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4432-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>13.0256</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1000, Children (from 4-year-olds to Junior High School Students) ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>March 20 (Tue) open until 22:00, March 24 (Sat) open until 6:00 the following morning due to &quot;Roppongi Art Night 2012&quot;</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>102</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.657036</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7325</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4555" 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>
  </Venue>
  <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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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4555-80" width="80" />
  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/4555-170" width="170" />
  <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>
  </Venue>
  <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="2012/518E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/518E">
  <Name>Atsuko Tanaka &quot;The Art of Connecting&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4A4AABB8">
    <Name>Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Metropolitan Kiba Park, 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5245-4111</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>11 minutes walk from Exit B2 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon Line; 14 minutes walk from Exit 3 of Kiba Station on the Tozai Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on a Public Holiday Monday, but closed on the following Tuesday. Closed around the end of year celebrations (12/28~1/4)</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This will be the first major Tokyo retrospective exhibition of the work of Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005), who has recently attracted increased attention for the role she played as one of the foremost female members of the postwar avant-garde artist group, the Gutai Art Association. Exhibits will include ‘Work (Bell)’ (1955), in which sound races around the exhibition space, the ‘Electric Dress’ (1956) that she wore for several performances, and numerous paintings, collages and video records, presenting an overview of the pioneering activities of this artist who combined performance with the plastic arts over a period of fifty years.

See website for more details on related talks, screenings, and performances.

[Image: Atsuko Tanaka, &quot;Electric Dress&quot; (1956, recreated in 1986) courtesy of Takamatsu City Museum of Art]]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/518E-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>28.9</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, College Students &amp; Adults over 65 ¥800, High School &amp; Junior High School Students ¥500, Free for younger</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on April 30th, closed on May 1st</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.676344</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.810483</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/58DC" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/58DC">
  <Name>Azamino Contemporary Vol. 2 Exhibition &quot;Viewpoints: Drawing &amp; Painting&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1D6D7375">
    <Name>Yokohama Civic Gallery, Azamino</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-17-3 Azamino-minami, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 225-0012</Address>
    <Phone>045-910-5656</Phone>
    <Fax>045-910-5674</Fax>
    <Access>5 Minutes walk from the East Exit of Azamino Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</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="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Azamino Contemporary is a series of ongoing exhibitions by artists working in various media that resist existing categories and social expectations. This second edition focuses on the art of drawing and painting, and features new works by four up-and-coming artists.

Artist talks: 
February 4th (Sat) 15:00 Yusuke Asai, Chihiro Kabata
February 12th (Sun) 15:00 Toru Kuwakubo, Kana Yoshida

See website for more details on related events and profiles of participating artists.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/58DC-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>18.8889</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open Daily</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.562036</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.557011</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BB6" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/5BB6">
  <Name>Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions 2012 &quot;How Physical&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B6131856">
    <Name>Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo</Address>
    <Phone>03-3280-0099</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3280-0033</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from East Exit at JR Ebisu Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[From the start, each year the Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions has posed the question, “What is an image?” and chosen a theme that suggests an answer to this question. It was, however, no easy task to think about an appropriate theme or envision the shape that this year’s festival might take less than a year since Japan was shaken to its roots by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region in northeast Japan. Confronted with images of such overwhelming power, images that exposed the fragility of the foundations on which images are built, it came to us at last that there was really only one choice, to make our theme the physicality of images. In retrospect it seems so obvious, in times like these we had to start over again with this most simple and basic of questions. It would, at the same time direct our eyes once again to the complex and diverse possibilities inherent in images.

The theme of the fourth Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions is, then, “How Physical”. To illuminate the physicality of images, we begin with their practical aspect, then, through the works we present, press on into the riches and depth that images offer. Before we raise questions about the themes and cultural significance of images, asking what images show us or why these particular images were taken, we turn first to the technologies, the skills, the tools, the activities, the means of distribution that make images possible. At the same time, we recognize the presence in images of times and spaces that only exist as images and the power of images to affect us viscerally. Our aim is to savor deeply forms of creative expression in which the distinctive physicality of images is brought to life. We also see this as an opportunity to reconsider the issues of the day not abstractly, but concretely by considering the physical processes, equipment, technologies and economic environment in which images are captured, preserved and passed down to us.

The Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions takes full advantage of the space in which it is held to provide an opportunity for those who create, connect, and receive images to come together to enjoy the works on display and examine from many angles the physical aspects of images past and present. We hope that it becomes for everyone involved a comprehensive and future-oriented celebration of the “physical making” involved in imaging and visual creative expression.

Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Central Square, Yebisu Garden Place; The Garden Room; and more…]]></Description>
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  <Karma>102.857</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Free (*charge applies for certain screenings and events)</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/7210" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/7210">
  <Name>Gerda Steiner &amp; Jörg Lenzlinger &quot;Power Sources&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/3CBAD717">
    <Name>Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1-6-8 Goken-cho, Mito-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 310-0063</Address>
    <Phone>029-227-8111</Phone>
    <Fax>029-227-8110</Fax>
    <Access>From Mito Station, take bus for Daiku-machi from the terminal #4, #5, #6 or #7 at the north exit, and get off at Izumi-cho I-chome, the fourth stop. (¥160)</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition is the largest exhibition in the history of the Swiss contemporary artists Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger, known for their series of dynamic site specific installations.

Since 1997, Gerda and Jorg have been working together and presented wide range of works including installation, collage, photograph, painting and sculpture. Among them, their site specific installations, created in accordance to the specific space, are well known. They often reveal the invisible and unknown cultural significance of the exhibiting site by the artists actually living there and communicating with local people during the creating process. 

The installation usually holds a poetic ambiguity which is always full of ideas about how our world can be. Gerda and Jorg have strong interests in human activities, mysteries and wonders of life, in the relationships between body and mind and the surrounding environment. Those interests are reflected to their creations in the forms of various dimensions that the work retains; cultural, psychological, scientific, biological and social. It enables viewers to relate and to interpret in any way they like. Also beds and chairs in the installations help visitors to enjoy seeing, staying, and being a part of it comfortably, and suggest experience for the senses.

At Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art gallery, Gerda and Jorg will present both their latest and past works created from 1998, which have previously only been introduced fragmentarily in Japan. It includes new and never-before-seen works. They will stay in Mito for more than one month and explore the current environmental and social situations after the massive earthquake on 3.11, and create their latest installations under the theme of power sources. It is not only about bringing the world into shape, but making the latest Japan cultural map by revealing the social and cultural phenomena not visible to people inside.

During this exhibition period, one year will be marked since the earthquake. Showcasing a panoramic view on the artists’ over ten years of history and their latest activities, this exhibition will be a power source to each and everyone of the viewers.

[Image: Gerda Steiner &amp; Jörg Lenzlinger, &quot;High Water&quot; (2011) Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Photo: Mick Vincenz]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults ¥800, Under Elementary School Students /Senior /Handicapped Person Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/776A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/776A">
  <Name>Keiichi Taira Talk</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/50F923D7">
    <Name>Daikanyama Hillside Forum</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>18-8, Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033</Address>
    <Phone>03-5489-3705</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</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 Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Talk by one of Japan's leading postwar architecture journalists, Keiichi Taira, who will talk about the books that have shaped his life and career.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>31.5217</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥2000</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.644778</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.703717</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/7CAD" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/7CAD">
  <Name>&quot;MOT Collection: Chronicle 1964- Off Museum (Special feature: Hideko Fukushima)&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4A4AABB8">
    <Name>Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Metropolitan Kiba Park, 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5245-4111</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>11 minutes walk from Exit B2 at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon Line; 14 minutes walk from Exit 3 of Kiba Station on the Tozai Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on a Public Holiday Monday, but closed on the following Tuesday. Closed around the end of year celebrations (12/28~1/4)</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Showcases works by Hideko Fukushima that focus on art trends post-1964, held in conjunction with two other exhibitions of postwar Japanese art by Atsuko Tanaka and Ay-O.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>12.6053</Karma>
  <Price free="0">[Special Exhibition] Depends on each event. [Permanent Collection] Adults ¥500, Students ¥400, High school Students &amp; Adults over 65 ¥250, free for Junior Hight School Students or younger.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open on April 30th, closed on May 1st</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/84DE" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/84DE">
  <Name>Go Hasegawa &quot;Study in Real&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/7D1C894F">
    <Name>Gallery Ma</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Toto Nogizaka bldg. 3F, 1-24-3 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062</Address>
    <Phone>03-3402-1010</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3423-4085</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute on foot from Exit 3 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</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>fridays closinghour 19:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In his debut work, House in a Forest (2006), Hasegawa designed a gabled attic space supported by struts under a gabled roof, creating a wholly unique spatial sensation.

By placing a large table in the center of his next work, House in Sakuradai (2006), he proposed a new relationship between the individual rooms and the living room. More recently, in Apartment in Nerima (2010), Hasegawa equipped every unit with a large terrace with its own distinctive form to incorporate signs of the city into the building. In addition, in Pilotis in a Forest (2010), he elevated the living room on pilotis with a floor height of 6.5 meters, and supported it with nine thin columns.

By integrating the surrounding forest with the work, Hasegawa proposed a bold spatial structure, and received much acclaim for realizing a work in which a comfortable link was created between the resident and the house, and the architecture and the environment.

In the now underway Belfry in Ishinomaki (set to completed in 2012), Hasegawa and a group of volunteers are planning to donate a small belfry to a kindergarden in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which suffered extensive damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake.

The work is imbued with the thought that the sound of the bell will serve as a symbol of hope in local recovery efforts.
Through the scale models and sketches that were developed in the planning for each of the eleven projects that Hasegawa has been involved with in the past, in this exhibition, we hope to convey the relationship between the architect's works and the surrounding environment. In the gallery's courtyard, Hasegawa will also erect Belfry in Ishinomaki, which will then be moved to Ishinomaki when the exhibition concludes.

While suggesting a variety of real conditions that Hasegawa faces in his projects, the title of the exhibition, Study in Real, expresses the architect's view of the future in which while actively considering and repeatedly studying, he attempts to cultivate himself and improve the quality of his architecture.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>21.6633</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-14</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/854A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/854A">
  <Name>&quot;The 17th CG Contest for Students Selected Exhibition&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/2E174B58">
    <Name>Open Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Canon S Tower 2F, 2-16-6, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8011</Address>
    <Phone>03-6719-9021</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from the Konan exit of Shinagawa Station on the JR and Keihin-Kyuko lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</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>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Organized by CG-Arts, this contest was founded in 1995 to recognize and honor exceptional student works  of computer generated graphics and arts. On display are various works that make use of media and new technology in the realms of art, design, animation, film, manga, games, and applications.

[Image: Hiranoryo, &quot;Holiday&quot; Tama Art University, Animation award]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>10.3226</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-29</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>14</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.622401</Latitude>
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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>
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  <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>
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  <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>
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  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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  <Name>Masako Imaoka Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4928DDC6">
    <Name>Ginza Nikon Salon (Nikon Plaza)</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>Strate Ginza 1F, 7-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061</Address>
    <Phone>03-3248-3783</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minute walk from Exit A3 at Higashi-Ginza Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ginza_marunouchi">Ginza, Shimbashi</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on the last day of each event until 15:00 only, Closed on the new year holidays, Closed on the first Saturday and Sunday of February and the second Sunday and Monday of August.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[On display are 50 color and black and white photos that depict universal daily experiences in contemporary Kyushu.

]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.90045</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.665597</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.767022</Longitude>
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  <Name>Misuzu Oyama &quot;rabbit hole library&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/CFAC8ED4">
    <Name>Gallery Speak For</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>B1F, Speak For, 28-2 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033</Address>
    <Phone>03-5459-6385</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Daikanyama Station (Tokyu Toyoko Line)</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on the last day of each event until 18:00 only.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features around twenty new works, including sculptures and cuddly toys, themed on scenes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>17.6724</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.644833</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.704228</Longitude>
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  <Name>Mao Ishikawa &quot;Port Town Elegy&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/366C5555">
    <Name>Photographers' Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2-16-11-401 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5368-2631</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5368-2361</Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from exits C7 or C8 at Shinjuku-3chome station on the Shinjuku line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Photos depicting the honest, straightforward lives of men and laborers in port towns.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/BEF5-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>16.875</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-01</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday. *closes at 18:00 on February 4th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>2</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.688197</Latitude>
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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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  <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/C467" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/C467">
  <Name>&quot;ACY Lecture: Living by Art&quot; Talk</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>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Talk events with a gallerist, a curator and a collector respectively. Please see the venue website for further details.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>1.08394</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥500 each session</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-27</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-17</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>31</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/CEF9" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CEF9">
  <Name>Hara Hiromu &quot;What One Discovers Through Design Work&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1AA8A2F2">
    <Name>The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from Exit 1B at Takebashi Station on the Tozai Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="nihonbashi">Kyobashi, Nihonbashi &amp; Kudanshita</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Closed on the new year holidays and during changing exhibitions. On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Hara Hiromu (1903–1986) designed many posters, tickets and catalogue covers for exhibitions held by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo for twenty years from its opening in 1952 until 1972. As many as about 150 posters for our exhibitions were designed by Hara. Presenting 150 pieces, this show focuses on Hara’s work with the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo to consider the relationship between designers and art museums.

Events &amp; Education:
Gallery Talk: Konishi Keisuke ( Graphic Designer )
Date: 2012/4/15(Sun)
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Art Museum Gallery 4 (2nd Floor), Free Program (but Museum admission needed)
Offered in Japanese only

Curator's Talk
Date: 2012/2/19(Sun), 2012/3/11(Sun)
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Art Museum Gallery 4 ( 2nd Floor ), Free Program (but Museum admission needed)
Offered in Japanese only]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/CEF9-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>16.352</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥420, University Students ¥130, High School Sudents ¥70, Junior High School Students or younger, Those over the age of 65, Those with physical or mental disabilities and one attendant free, Special Exhibition Fees are charged separately.</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.687275</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7579</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CFB2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CFB2">
  <Name>&quot;IE≈HOME&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/ADF19626">
    <Name>Living Design Center Ozone</Name>
    <Type>Other</Type>
    <Address>3F to 8F Shinjuku Park Tower, 3-7-1 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023</Address>
    <Phone>03-5322-6500</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5322-6501</Fax>
    <Access>12 minutes walk from the south exit of JR Shinjuku Station. A free shuttle bus departures from the L-tower building (at intervals of ten minutes).</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on a Public Holidays Wednesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features the work of Japanese architects who have lived in England, bringing the ideas from lifestyles in the UK back to Japan to create new homes and ways of living.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/CFB2-80" width="80" />
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  <Karma>12.8125</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-02</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-14</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.682292</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.694319</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D71C" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/D71C">
  <Name>Chiharu Sakazaki Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/17ACFCFF">
    <Name>Yoshizawa Garden Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>5-1-18, Mama, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0826</Address>
    <Phone>047-374-7687</Phone>
    <Fax>047-374-2588</Fax>
    <Access>16 minutes walk from Ichikawa Station on the JR Sobu line, 12 minutes walk from Ichikawa-Mama Station on the Keisei line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</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>2D: Illustration</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Illustrator and artist Chiharu Sakazaki has created numerous characters and mascots for Chiba prefecture, including the well-known Suica penguin. This exhibition is divided across 4 rooms, and showcases a myriad of works in various forms.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>10.8168</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥300 ※Middle School Students and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open: 9:30 - 16:30</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>39</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.73649</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.914848</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>
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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/E165" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/E165">
  <Name>Momoko Fukaya &quot;sew I thought&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/68607A4C">
    <Name>Roji to Hito</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>Eiko Bldg. 2F, 1-14 Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from A5 Exit at Jimbocho Station on the Hanzomon line, Shinjuku line and Mita 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></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Product</Media>
  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features workshops where children and adults can make their own original headdresses, like the ones exhibited in this first solo show by the designer.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>11.2121</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-18</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 15:00-20:00 (weekdays), 12:00-20:00 (weekends)</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.693525</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.761581</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" />
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  <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/E959" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/E959">
  <Name>&quot;Junzaburo Nishiwaki: A Great Tradition&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/1956CCF2">
    <Name>The Keio University Art Space</Name>
    <Type>University</Type>
    <Address>2-2-20 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345</Address>
    <Phone>03-5427-1621</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5427-1620</Fax>
    <Access>5 minutes walk from exit A3 at Mita Station on the Mita and Asakusa lines, 7 minutes walk from Mita exit of JR Tamachi Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="1" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Other</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Junzaburo Nishiwaki (1894–1982) was a man of letters and poet with many close connections with Keio University. This exhibition celebrates his life and work through displays of resources related to the writer and the people he met.]]></Description>
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  <Image src="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/media/event/2012/E959-170" width="170" />
  <Karma>3.02041</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>9</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.646352</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.742578</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F102" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/F102">
  <Name>Bin Sugawara &quot;Poetry x Embroidery&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4DC36240">
    <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>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <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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    <ScheduleNote>Irregular holidays (Open everyday during the exhibition period.)</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Crafts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <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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  <Karma>3.02135</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-21</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-04" start="16:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>6</DaysBeforeEnd>
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  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/F67F" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/F67F">
  <Name>Akira Shimizu + Tatsumi Yoshino Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/25A28FDD">
    <Name>Museum of Modern Art, Saitama</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>9-30-1 Tokiwa, Urawa-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama-ken 330-0061</Address>
    <Phone>048-824-0111</Phone>
    <Fax>048-824-0119</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes walk from the West exit at Kita-Urawa Station on JR Keihin Tohoku Line. The museum is situated in the Kita-Urawa Park.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>residents of a prefecture</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the museum is open. Also during the year change period【12/27-1/3】and maintenance day is open as well. </ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The two artists participated in the anti-art movement of the Sixties and since then have been pursuing their own idiosyncratic styles. Akira Shimizu began to look into internality after his encounter with Butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi, while Tatsumi Yoshino was a member of Neo Dada and since the Eighties has focused on motifs of dogs.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0"> Adults ¥900, College and High School Students ¥720</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-11</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-25</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/FC0D" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/FC0D">
  <Name>Lee Bul &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/61183FDF">
    <Name>Mori Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>To Roppongi Hills, 10 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, 4 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Azabu Juban station on the Toei Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke &quot;pods&quot; that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gyres and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country's transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something, the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society.

While showcasing her major works in the four sections &quot;Ephemeral Presence,&quot; &quot;Beyond Human,&quot; &quot;Utopia and Dreamscape&quot; and &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only,&quot; in the &quot;Studio&quot; section this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle &quot;From Me, Belongs to You Only&quot; is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the &quot;something&quot; for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer.

Events:
Artist Talk (Japanese-Korean-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Lee Bul, who will visit Japan for the exhibition, discusses her own artistic activities over the last two decades.
Date: 19:00-20:30 Saturday 4 February, 2012
Venue: Academyhills49, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F
Capacity: 150 (bookings required)
Admission: General ¥1,000 MAMC Member free

Symposium  (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Seeking an Ideal Society
In her series &quot;Mon grand récit,&quot; and other works, Lee Bul has pursued an ideal vision of society with reference to the utopian theories and social political theories of the 20th century. The South Korea of the late 1980s, where she began her work as an artist, was experiencing a time of both hope and uncertainty as the country shifted towards democracy and existing value systems were being shaken up. The panelists at this symposium will be Lee Bul, who will visit Japan for the exhibition; Richard Noble a leading Western researcher into utopian theories; and Takahashi Toru, a scholar on cyborg theory, who considers future societies with reference to cyborg technology really does have the potential to create 'ultimate bodies.' These panelists will discuss Lee's artwork in the context of the 20th century, out of which utopian theories were born. In the present age of confusion, we invite you to come and think about the visions for ideal society that each of them describe.
Speakers: Lee Bul, Richard Noble (Head of Art Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London), Takahashi Toru (Professor, Waseda University)
Moderator: Kataoka Mami (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 14:00-16:00 Sunday 5 February, 2012
Venue: Academyhills49, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F
Capacity: 150 (bookings required)
Admission: General ¥1,000; MAMC Member free

Curator Talk  (Japanese only)
The exhibition curator discusses the sense of values that can be seen in Lee Bul's artworks, making reference to various theories of Utopia and &quot;the ideal society.&quot;
Speaker: Mami Kataoka (Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 19:00-20:30 Wednesday 22 February, 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: free (exhibition ticket required)

For the details for bookings, please visit Museum's website.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1000, Children (from 4-year-olds to Junior High School Students) ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>March 20 (Tue) open until 22:00, March 24 (Sat) open until 6:00 the following morning due to &quot;Roppongi Art Night 2012&quot;</ScheduleNote>
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