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Current events
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"ART POINT Selection I" Exhibition
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"Axis 2012" Exhibition
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"Gallery Show"
Works by gallery artists. [Image: Hongbin Zhao, "Garden by the Sea" oil on canvas]More »
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"Kimcolle Vol.1" Exhibition
Features the collection of the owner of Loophole gallery.More »
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"My Child, Our Children" Exhibition
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"New Students 2012 Vol. 2" Exhibition
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"αM Project 2011 Stratosphere Vol. 6: Goro Murayama"
Goro Murayama's works are propositions for new forms – an exercise in evoking a sense of life using clearly delineated contours and outlines, based on a systemic approach to composition that nonetheless...More »
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Hikaru Sugiura + Mami Nishide + Shusuke Nishimatsu "Selections from Nagoya University of Arts"
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Hiroaki Nakatsugawa Exhibition
The artist's first solo show at the gallery for ten years, Hiroaki Nakatsugawa works with acrylic on the themes of memory, vestiges and deficits. The exhibition is divided into two parts, the first dealing...More »
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Kengo Minami Exhibition
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Kiyotaka Ishii + Yume Okuhara Exhibition
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Koichiro Takagi "Romantic Ideal"
The artist was born in Tokyo but educated in America, spending some time working creatively with New York as his base before returning to Japan. His motifs are often animals or anthropomorphized creatures....More »
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Koya Ogawa Exhibition
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Masafumi Kawakami Exhibition
Features visionary works themed around sensuality and a surreal reality. [Image: Masafumi Kawakami (2010) Acrylic on canvas 45.5 x 45.5cm]More »
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Miyuki Eguchi Exhibition
Solo show by Miyuki Eguchi, a Western-style painter active in the Shunyo-kai association known for her depictions of plants using a bold composition and palette.More »
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Niki Ando Exhibition
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Osamu Asano Exhibition
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Rie Miyauchi Exhibition
Born in 1979, the artist studied food at university. She now depicts weaponry, battleships, tanks and female soldiers. This exhibition features acrylic paintings, pen drawings, collages and more.More »
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Ryoko Aoki "Green Pocket"
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Seymi Togo Exhibition
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Shinichiro Iida + Mizuho Ishii Exhibition
This exhibition in the locker rom features the process leading up to an exhibition at the Arcus facility. *By appointment only on weekdays.More »
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Suma Maruki Exhibition
[Image: Suma Maruki "White Bird" (1951)]More »
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Takenori Fukaumi "Waiting Room"
Takenori Fukaumi was born in 1975 and graduated from Tokyo National University of the Arts. Fukaumi mostly paints his mother in her childhood, or his wife and child, expressing warm scenes that connect...More »
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Tatsuya Banno Exhibition
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Yoko Matsumoto Exhibition
Matsumoto has been quiet for about three years but no she is ready to reveal her newest paintings.More »
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"2012 New Year Art Collection" Exhibition
Gallery YUME will celebrate the new year by presenting the work of some seventy artists who have been well received in contemporary art, across various genre, including paintings, drawings, prints, glasses,...More »
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"9 People Squatting" Exhibition
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"Henri Le Sidaner: The Painter Who Loved Roses and Moonlight" Exhibition
Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939) depicted rose gardens, sunlight filtering through leaves, garden furniture, and the dying light of the day glowing through windows. His sentimental works are enjoyed by viewers...More »
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"Mizota Collection × Takayuki Mitsushima input → output" Exhibition
- at Joshibi University of Art and Design - Art Museum
- in the Musashino, Tama area
- Closes tomorrow
This exhibition features works from the collection of Kotoe Mizota, professor emeritus at Joshibi University of Art and Design. Related event: Improvised Performance by Ryota Kataoka and Takayuki Mitsushima January...More »
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"Taira no Kiyomori" Special Exhibition
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the NHK Taiga Drama series, we will present the story of the life of Taira-no-Kiyomori, the first samurai to grasp political power and a man ‘who challenged his...More »
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"The Best of the Yamatane Collection" Exhibition
In 2011, the Yamatane Museum of Art celebrates the forty-fifth anniversary of its founding in 1966 as Japan's first museum specializing in Nihonga. To commemorate that milestone, the museum has selected...More »
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"akibatamabi 21 15th Exhibition: a-hum"
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B Krishta Exhibition
The artist was born in Britain and deals with themes of gods, the planet, war and space.More »
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Fumiaki Akahane + Ryuichiro Otake "Forever Young"
Akahane Fumiaki (born 1984, Nagano prefecture) and Otake Ryuichiro (born 1983, Toyama prefecture) are both graduates from Musashino Art University. This exhibition presents their past works under the shared...More »
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Kei Ohnaka "Waterside"
On display are hanging scroll works by Kei Ohnaka from his Waterside series that depict calming, serene landscapes and panoramic views.More »
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Miho Hirose Exhibition
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Miho Matsumura + Naoko Koizumi + Takako Koizumi "Sound of Flapping Wings"
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Sarah Dolatabadi "Silent Blue"
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This Week At Gallery Le Deco
Features paintings and photography.More »
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This Week at Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
Oil and watercolor paintings, calligraphy and more.More »
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ai☆madonna Exhibition
For details of presentation events and reception party information, please see the venue website.More »
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Akinori Tanaka Exhibition
FIrst solo show by a French chef featuring some 20 works that showcase his keen sense for color.More »
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Ryotai Kanamori "Eternal Space"
- at Nihonbashi Takashimaya 6F / X Art Gallery
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 3 days
On display are 40 frescoes depicting the temples, shrines and Buddhist icons of Nara. Gallery talk: February 4th (Sat) 15:00More »
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Tama Art University Graduation Exhibition
On display are nihonga and oil paintings by 44 graduating students at Tama Art University.More »
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"Yuji Kaida and Ultra World" Exhibition
To celebrate the release of an Ultraman Q DVD and Blue-ray, this exhibition features sketches and original Ultraman merchandise.More »
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This Week at Keio Department Store, Shinjuku Gallery
Features European antiques and oil paintings of Japanese landscapes.More »
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Yukiko Maruno Exhibition
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"Koh-jutsu 2.51" Exhibition
"Koh-jutsu" means skillful technique in Japanese. The serial exhibition entitled "Koh-jutsu" has been held at Spiral every year since 2010, with the subject being to indicate the essence and future image...More »
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Chen Ruo Bing "Image of Time"
Chen has been painting simple geometric forms repeatedly on canvas ever since he was a student at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, giving equal value to both the figure and ground. This is his experiment...More »
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Keiko Oikawa "Tathagata"
On display are 10 drawings that depict the ten powers that the Tathagata (perfected one) is said to be endowed with. These animals possess transcendent, superhuman powers with something of the divine about...More »
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Mika Sugiura + Tomomi Nomura Exhibition
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Takanori Oguiss Exhibition
Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986) was a Japanese painter who spent most of his life in Paris. Throughout his entire career, Oguiss chose the city of Paris and other historical cities in Europe as his main subjects....More »
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"Celebration Day" Exhibition
"Reactor" - ten portraits of Japanese of the 2011 by Shusuke Ao, Junta Egawa, Jun Shirasu, Takahiro Nagasawa, Yuki Hashimoto and Yuki Yoshida. Their work was based on the work "Ten Portraits of Jews of...More »
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Ayano Kaeba "mourning flowers"
The title comes from a coined phrase describing a motif of the mourning dove and its sad, plaintive birdsong in north America. [Image: Ayano Kaeba "I snuggle up to emptiness" (2011) Oil, acrylic, corting...More »
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Keisuke Koizumi + Mariko Tomomasa "National Holidays"
Features two large and medium-sized paintings, as well as two semi-sculptural works, drawings and other new works. [Image: Mariko Tomomasa Training -And then, we will climb the rainbow- 2010 Photograph...More »
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Tatsuo Hirahara Exhibition
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Tomomi Nitta "Infinite Set 2"
Tomomi Nitta aspired to be a painter after completing her LLB at Kyoto University. She first studied at the Corcoran School of Art in the US to acquire oil painting techniques before transferring to Tama...More »
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Toshiki Teramura "The Fiction Inside You"
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"25th Machida City Public Elementary & Junior High School Art Exhibition"
Features the work of local school children, divided into three sessions of fine art, arts and crafts, and calligraphy.More »
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"7th Contemporary Artists from Ibaraki" Exhibition
On display are some 100 recent works by 100 artists from Ibaraki Prefecture that offers viewers a glimpse of the current state of art in Ibaraki. Gallery talk: Saturdays and Sundays at 14:00 Exhibition...More »
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"Heisei Year 23 Art and Design University of Tsukuba Graduation Exhibition"
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"Japan Today" Exhibition
Group show of second-year students at Tsukuba University on the them of Japan.More »
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"Present for You: New Acquisitions" Exhibition
Features newly acquired works in the collection. [Image: Hasui Kawase (1920) Woodblock print]More »
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Belladonna Art "Advance"
Features female artists from the Belladonna Art group.More »
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Kae Higuchi "I'm here."
Features around 40 tempura and oil paintings and copperplate print, with the artist's customary mysterious atmosphere and sense of deja vu.More »
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Kaoru Arima "We are all monsters living together in a ghost town"
Arima, born in 1969 in Aichi, Japan, has exhibited extensively within Japan and abroad; a selection of significant group exhibitions includes "How Latitudes Become Forms", a traveling exhibition presented...More »
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Kotaro Inoue + Jiro Konami + Sadie Rebecca Starnes "The Catcher in the dark"
We have been believing in the bright future and rushing headlong into it. But now, we can't live any more in same way. Artists close their eyes, listen attentively, weigh their words carefully, and step...More »
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Mariko Sugano "Emblemata"
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Mayuko Sase "At the Last Children's World"
Features characters from the contemporary fairy tales of Mayuko Sase.More »
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Shujiro Murayama "Nurture Painting - Dispatch from Plant Painting"
Murayama was brought up in an environment close to nature and during his late teens he would collect plants from the dry riverbed, using them as the subject of highly detailed pictures. Then as he entered...More »
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Sunao Watanabe Exhibition
Features sketches and watercolors from award-winning painter Sunao Watanabe.More »
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This Month at Design Festa Gallery
Illustrations, paintings, photography and crafts.More »
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Hiroki Yasutomi Exhibition
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"Kaju Morii Collection" Exhibition
Features prints from the late Meiji to the pre-war periods and poems, looking at the image of Tokyo as the imperial city.More »
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Tatsuo Saito Exhibition
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Hiroyuki Tamino Exhibition
The painter creates work that is sometimes pop in tone, at other times surreal.More »
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Keita Nishinomiya Exhibition
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Misuzu Oyama "rabbit hole library"
Features around twenty new works, including sculptures and cuddly toys, themed on scenes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.More »
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Kiriko Iida Exhibition
Features around twenty oil paintings.More »
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"The Magic of Appearance" Exhibition
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Kikuo Saito Exhibition
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Mana Konishi "Alex"
Mana Konishi’s landscapes and portraits are painted with graciously unconstrained and sensual brushstrokes, as well as a unique sense of color. Her painting distances itself from viewers with its creation...More »
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Mari Ito "The Origin of a Desire"
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Oh Chi Gyun Exhibition
- at Mizuma Art Gallery - Ichigaya Tamachi
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 14 days
Oh was born the youngest of seven children in the rural village of Banseok, Korea, in 1956. He graduated from Seoul National University Art School in 1980 and received a M.F.A. from the Brooklyn College...More »
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"Fairytale" Exhibition
Features around 30 selections of popular book illustrations from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with fairy motifs, investigating the mythology and significance of fairy imagery for both Japanese...More »
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"Japanese Red Cross Society Collection Exhibition: From Seiji Togo and Ryuzaburo Umehara to Pablo Picasso"
This charity exhibition showcases pieces from the collection of the Japanese Red Cross Society donated by renowned artists, including Pablo Picasso, Kaii Higashiyama, and Seiji Togo. Proceeds from admissions...More »
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"Two Hundred Selected Masterpieces from the Palace Museum, Beijing" Exhibition
In 2012, which marks the 40th anniversary of the normalization of relations between Japan and China, the Tokyo National Museum is holding an exhibition of masterpieces from the Palace Museum, Beijing. The...More »
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"University of Tsukuba Ishii Collection" Exhibition
Features 200 ceramics and paintings works from Akira Ishii, part of the collection of the University of Tsukuba.More »
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Yuhei Saito Exhibition
The artist has previously worked mostly in irregular exhibition spaces and unusually here has turned to a normal gallery to show his work.More »
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Kei Takeuchi Exhibition
- at Nihonbashi Takashimaya 6F / X Art Gallery
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 16 days
On display are works created outdoors on the site of ruins in Iwate, where the March 11 quake and tsunami wreaked massive damage. Gallery talk: February 5th (Sun), 12th (Sun) 14:00- [Image: Kei Takeuchi,...More »
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Maya Maxx Exhibition
Features a collage work depicting rainbows.More »
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”Domani: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition
Features the work of eight young artists who have been working in different artistic fields in overseas study programs, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.More »
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"Moving Commemoration" Exhibition
First exhibition at a new gallery space. [Image: Natsuki Tanigawa, "Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier from Icefields Parkway" (2011) Oil on canvas, F30]More »
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"Fear of Loss: Multiples and Copies" Exhibition
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Shoko Fujimori "Recipe of Desire"
Features paintings, prints and more in this second exhibition by this artist at this gallery. She deals with the absurd in the physical.More »
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Yutaka Koyanagi "Toward the Light"
Features a series of oil paintings on plant motifs painted onto rough hemp. [Image: Yutaka Koyanagi, "Anouk" (2011) Oil on jute 53.5 x 46cm]More »
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"Distant Road" Exhibition
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...More »
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"Donated/Entrusted Works" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases a variety of works donated to the museum in recent years, including paintings from the Edo period and works by Isson Tanaka depicting subtropical plants.More »
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"Jomon" Exhibition
This exhibition is planned and organized by the owner of Shoun, a store dealing in Buddhist art and artifacts. The first floor will feature the owner's exquisite collection of contemporary works, while...More »
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"Setagaya 100 Years from Now" Exhibition
- at Setagaya Culture Life Information Center, Seikatsu-Kobo
- in the Shibuya, Setagaya area
- Closes in 22 days
On display are videos, paintings and sound pieces by 7 artists that envision Setagaya in 100 years from now.More »
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"Wonder Seed 2012" Exhibition
Founded in 2003, this project was started to support the work of young creators and artists. On display are 100 smaller works attractive even to first-time buyers.More »
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Azamino Contemporary Vol. 2 Exhibition "Viewpoints: Drawing & Painting"
- at Yokohama Civic Gallery, Azamino
- in the Yokohama, Kanagawa area
- Starts Today, Closes in 22 days
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...More »
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Hisaya Taira "Reflections of the City"
- at 1223 Gendaikaiga - Contemporary Painting Collection -
- in the Nakameguro, Ebisu area
- Closes in 22 days
This exhibition first leads visitors through works depicting escalators with glittering metal and glass. Then in contrast they see paintings of old stone stairs in a museum. Various artificial and natural...More »
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Kenji Yanobe "Sun Child, Child of Taro"
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...More »
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Makiko Yamaguchi Exhibition
Features the artist's bright and colorful "paper work" exhibits.More »
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Sanami Kakutani Exhibition
[Image: Sanami Kakutani]More »
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Takako Amakasu + Haruko Kasuya "L'amitie"
After studying painting together and being friends for many years, this is the first joint show by these two artists.More »
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”Japanation” Exhibition
Features painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics by young Japanese artists. Artist Talk: January 22 (Sunday) 17:00-18:00More »
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"Light and Shadow of Latin American Colonial Period" Exhibition
Celebrates the artists to have emerged from the former colonies of Europe in the Americas, revealing the fusion with and influence of the Baroque, Surrealism and native Mayan and Andes cultures. Jan...More »
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"Adolescent Dreams: Yozo Hamaguchi" Exhibition
- at Musee Hamaguchi Yozo / Yamasa Collection
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 25 days
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...More »
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Makiko Tanaka "Baroque Boogie"
- at H.P.France Window Gallery
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 26 days
The artist's first solo show at the gallery in five years showcasing her return to the pencils and watercolors she utilized in the early stages of her career, creating poetic images.More »
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Kosuke Ichikawa "frozen"
With its original style of using delicate incense stick flames, Ichikawa’s work has been described as “Incense Sticks Painting, significantly redirecting the contemporary paintings into a completely different...More »
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Ryuichi Abe + Tomoki Miyanaga "unfeigned 2012 / Strawberry Field"
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Maurice Denis "Le matin de la vie"
Nineteenth century French painter Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was influenced by Gauguin and created a new style of painting through beautiful coloring and simple forms. He is well known for his religious...More »
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“Redon and his Contemporaries: Dreams of the Fin-de-Siecle” Exhibition
At a time when the Impressionists were concerned with how to portray landscapes and physical states of the outside world, the symbolist painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916) instead turned inwards to explore...More »
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"New Gallery x New Artists x New Works" Exhibition
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"Otani Collection" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases some 30 works from the collection, including nihonga paintings by Seiho Takeuchi and Gaho Hashimoto, oil paintings by Maurice de Vlaminck and Bernard Buffet, and a selection of...More »
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Shimon Minamikawa "Ace of Spades, Seven, King"
The exhibition started from playing cards. For the artist a "playing card" is making an artwork through the medium of duplication. The exhibition introduces his new puzzle book, "The Playing Card", which...More »
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"Feast of Female Beauty" Exhibition
Features portraits of woman by various artists and in various styles. There will be some sixty paintings and prints on display by Japanese and western masters.More »
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Johannes Vermeer Exhibition
Among the 30 or so works by Vermeer that still survive today, it is his paintings of letters, with their evocation of quiet drama in the midst of daily life, that occupy an important place in his oeuvre....More »
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"Minimal/Conceptual" Exhibition
- at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 42 days
This exhibition showcases abstract paintings and photos by artists like Louise Lawler, whose photos present a composition different from the space in which they are presented.More »
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"Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World"
This is Fuyuko Matsui's first large-scale solo show at a public art museum. Her work was previously included in a group exhibition of nihonga painters at this museum in 2006. Matsui was born in Morimachi,...More »
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"Ishibashi Collection Selected for the Exhibition in Paris, Spring, 1962" Exhibition
- at Bridgestone Museum of Art
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Closes in 43 days
Exactly fifty years ago in 1962, which marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of our Museum, the first exhibition introducing the Ishibashi Collection abroad (La Peinture française de Corot à Braque...More »
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Saori Ono Exhibition
Features work with a mysterious talismanic atmosphere. [Image: Saori Ono (2011)]More »
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"Play in the Capital: Dynastic Beauty from Kyoto Hosomi Museum" Exhibition
Ever since the Heian period Kyoto has been the centre of culture, the source of waka poetry, narratives and elegant "play", and the creator of diverse aesthetic. This exhibition takes as its theme the...More »
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Saburo Miyamoto Exhibition
Saburo Miyamoto is famous for his nudes and motifs of women. This exhibition features Miyamoto's work from the Sixities and is thematically linked to the concurrent Araki photography show at the same venue. [Image:...More »
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"Choice 4: Museum's Choice" Exhibition
Features works from Toyoshige Watanabe's new "Oni" (demon) series that uses pastels and charcoal. [Image: Toyoshige Watanabe "Oni" (2011)]More »
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"Collection 040: Questions to Understand Ourselves" Exhibition
Introduces more works from the 3,000-strong Terada Collection.More »
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"Enchanting Montmartre, Paris 1880-1910: Le Chat Noir and Cabaret Culture" Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on the artistic world of Belle Epoque Paris, with particular attention given to the Chat Noir cabaret club in Montmartre. On display are paintings and posters that depict the art...More »
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"Nambata Fumio: Works 1960-1974" Exhibition
Fumio Nambata (1941-1974) produced a large number of wonderful works notable for their delicate lines and coloring. His watercolors, drawings, and his vivid life left a firm impression on postwar art in...More »
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"Project N 48: Midori Sato" Exhibition
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"Slipware and Western Craft" Exhibition
Mainly produced from the mid-18th through the late 19th century, English slipware pottery is characterized by decorative “sliptrail” patterns on top of an unglazed base. Largely passed over in England,...More »
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"The Best Collection - Modern Nihonga Paintings" Exhibition
A choice sellection of nihonga (Japanese-style paintings) from our museum collection will be introduced in three parts. Part 1 (22 October-4 December) and Part 2 (6 December-29 January) focuses mainly...More »
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"The Garden of Mirei Shigemori" Exhibition
- at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
- Closes in 50 days
Mirei Shigemori is a well-known modern Japanese garden artist who surveyed over 400 classical Japanese gardens starting in 1936. The landscape designer learnt his craft through self-study, eventually designing...More »
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Jack Goldstein Exhibition
Rat Hole Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of the late artist Jack Goldstein (1945-2003). Jack Goldstein’s performances, films, paintings, and sound works of the late 1970’s and early 80’s helped...More »
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Minoru Nomata “blue construction”
Sagacho archives COLLECTION plus has received many favorable comments from reviewers. The archives has been verifying all of the activities held at the former Sagacho Exhibit Space (1983–2000) as the first...More »
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Graduation Exhibition 2012
Different art universities will exhibit their graduating students' work. Please see venue website for schedule details.More »
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"Epic Comic Legend, Kinya Ueki" Exhibition
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...More »
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Ayako Yodoi Exhibition
This series of exhibitions introduces the artists in the collection of the Yokosuka Museum of Art. This time Ayako Yodoi's oil paintings and prints will be exhibited on the theme of the poet Bassho, Egypt...More »
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Yumeji Takehisa "Minato-ya and Taisho Romantic Design"
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...More »
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Hiroji Noda Exhibition
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...More »
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15th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award Exhibition
- at Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
- in the Musashino, Tama area
- Starts Today, Closes in 64 days
On display are works by 24 artists selected from among 797 entries submitted to the 15th edition of this award.More »
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"MOMAS Collection" Exhibition
Features selections from the museum's collection on the themes of water, greenery and light. There will be nihonga and ceramics with motifs of New Year (Oshougatsu), plum and cherry blossom flowers, as...More »
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"The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction" Exhibition
This exhibition spotlights the work of seven contemporary artists who burn with a passion for drawing and for representing all kinds of physical phenomena as well as the spiritual world that surrounds...More »
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Takuro Usui "Mapping"
Part 1: January 11 - March 4 Part 2: March 7 - April 29More »
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"MOT Collection: Chronicle 1964- Off Museum (Special feature: Hideko Fukushima)" Exhibition
- at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
- Starts Today, Closes in 92 days
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.More »
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Atsuko Tanaka "The Art of Connecting"
- at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
- Starts Today, Closes in 92 days
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...More »
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Ay-O "Over the Rainbow Once More"
- at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
- Starts Today, Closes in 92 days
Ay-O (1931 - ) is known as ‘the Rainbow Artist’ for the way in which he depicts all his motifs through a spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. He was a member of the international avant-garde...More »
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"The Development of Impression: Monet, Renoir and the Next Generations" Exhibition
The activities of the French Impressionists were over after roughly the decade of 1870 to 1880. But Monet and Renoir kept producing work for a long time after that. It is little known that their work and...More »
Permanent events
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Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art Permanent Exhibition
With works from the Ibaraki area as the nucleus, objects in the museum's permanent collection are shown systematically so that the history of modern and contemporary art can be easily understood. More »
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Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art Permanent Exhibition
The museum collection consists of 1210 pieces centering upon 20th century works depicting the <human being>. 540 are works by Renoir, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Chagall, Kokoschka, Milo,...More »
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Kuroda Memorial Hall Permanent Exhibit
Seiki Kuroda (1866-1924) left huge footprints in modern japanese art as a painter, pedagogue and art administrator. He helped revolutionize mid-Meiji period painting, and his influence reached far and...More »
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Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection
Using three floors of the main building, this permanent exhibition presents about 200 to 250 pieces selected from our museum's collection of about 9,200 works, including Japanese- and Western-style paintings,...More »
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NMWA Museum Collection
The NMWA was established in 1959 around the core Matsukata Collection as Japan's museum specializing in Western art. The Main Building displays pre-18th century paintings, including those by Ritzos, Van...More »
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Permanent Collection
Murauchi Art Museum holds western paintings with an emphasis on works by the Barbizon painters in the 19th century. Works of Impressionist painters and modern artists are also contained in the collection....More »
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Permanent Exhibition
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Picasso Pavilion
The Hakone Open-Air Museum’s Picasso Collection consists of a substantial number of Picasso’s ceramic creations, purchased from his eldest daughter Maya Picasso, as well as his paintings, prints, sculptures,...More »
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Tenshin Okakura Memorial Room Exhibition
Works by artists from Izura who were tutored by Tenshin Okakura will be on display. Exhibits will rotate six times a year.More »
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Utsunomiya Museum of Art Collection
Utsunomiya Museum of Art collects post-20th century works of art and design. The permanent exhibition is rotated 3 to 4 times a year, and a thematic mini-exhibition is also held 1 to 2 times a year.More »
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Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall Permanent Exhibit
Works, studies, sketches, ceramics, kimonos, artworks by friends, letters, bamboo crafts, and other belongings of Yokoyama Taikan are on display. Exhibits will change every three months. Closed during...More »
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Yusuke Asai "@Yoyogi Park"
Consisting of a tendriled mass of white lines, Yusuke Asai's work was completed on October 8th with the help of a team of assistants. This work is on view 24 hours a day at the Harajuku entrance to Yoyogi...More »
Upcoming events
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"Do androids dream?" Exhibition
Inspired by the 80s sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick, this exhibition features works that depict various sham, fabricated worlds where nightmares have become reality.More »
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"New Students 2012 Vol. 3" Exhibition
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Bunpei Shono Exhibition
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Hiroaki Nakatsugawa Exhibition
The artist's first solo show at the gallery for ten years, Hiroaki Nakatsugawa works with acrylic on the themes of memory, vestiges and deficits. The exhibition is divided into two parts, the first dealing...More »
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Hiroji Noda "1984-2012"
Hiroji Noda was born in Wakayama in 1952 and graduated from Tama Art University in 1976. His first solo show came after being discovered by Minami Gallery's Kusuo Shimizu. Since then, he has been exhibiting...More »
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Hiroyasu Oki Exhibition
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Kana Ito Exhibition
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Kenji Yonaha "search results"
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Masaichi Komiya Exhibition
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Naoko Matsumoto Exhibition
Tokyo Wonder Wall prizewinning works. Opening talk: February 6th (Mon) 17:30-18:30More »
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Shizumune Matsuda Exhibition
[Image: Shizumune Matsuda]More »
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"Everything for Cats Vol. 3" Exhibition
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"Meguro Address: Artist in Urban Life" Exhibition
This exhibition introduces six contemporary artists connected to Tokyo's Meguro ward and who have all been influenced by the make-up of modern urban lifestyle, with its immense overflowing flood of things,...More »
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Gallery 5th Anniversary Exhibition
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Leonoir Nagi Exhibition
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Reijiro Kudo Exhibition
Oil paint on panel.More »
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"20 Years Since Opening" Exhibition
To celebrate twenty years since the museum opened, this exhibition features Yukari Takasaki's work alongside contemporary domestic and overseas artists from the museum collection. [Image: Robert Indiana...More »
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Kim Moohwa "28+1"
Looks at the lives of Korean-born women living in Japan.More »
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"Kawaii Bazaar" Exhibition
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Ai Hoshizaki "29"
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Akiko Nakano "Axis"
[Images: Akiko Nakano (2011)]More »
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Jackson Pollock "A Centennial Retrospective"
- at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita area
- Starts in 6 days
Immediately after World War II, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) altered the concept of painting significantly by means of an original style and technique in which he sprinkled paint all over a canvas spread...More »
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Kanako Seki Exhibition
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Kaori Watanabe Exhibition
The artist's first solo show in three years, it is themed on the concept of "good news" and features an ambiguously mixed portrayal of hope and unease.More »
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Kayoko Tozawa "Sunlight and Earth"
[Image: Kayoko Tozawa (2011)]More »
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Yuichi Enomoto + Hidenori Yamaguchi Exhibition
Yuichi Enomoto graduated from Tokyo Zokei University and studied woodwork and traditional crafts in Ishikawa. Her works draw equally from both crafts and Minimal art while avoiding both purely abstract...More »
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"Japanese Dress" Exhibition
This exhibition features beautiful women garbed in richly individualistic kimonos, including beauty paintings by Uemura Shōen, Kaburaki Kiyokata and Itō Shinsui, along with examples of ukiyo-e and contemporary...More »
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"Pandemonium" Exhibition
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) 14:00-15:00More »
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"Shiki Masaoka and Art" Exhibition
Shiki Masaoka (1867-1902) was an innovator of modern haiku poetry who cultivated close relationships with Western-style painters like Chu Asai and Fusetsu Nakamura. On display at this exhibition are paintings...More »
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Akihito Nonoue Exhibition
On display are oil paintings and drawings created during the artists's time in Germany and Belgium.More »
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Akira Yamaguchi "TOKIORE(I)MIX"
In the upcoming forum, Maison Hermès will feature an exhibition by Akira Yamaguchi, one of the most notable contemporary artists today. Born in 1969, Yamaguchi studied oil painting at Tokyo University...More »
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Sinzow "Gypsy"
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Tomoyoshi Murayama "Get All of Me Seething"
First retrospective of Tomoyoshi Murayama (1901-1977), whose avant-garde activities influenced Japanese modern art in the 1920-30s. [Image: Tomoyoshi Murayama "Dedicated to the Beautiful Girls" (ca.1923)...More »
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Yuichi Higashionna "After the Picnic"
This exhibition focuses on Yuichi Higashionna's ongoing projects – including paintings and installations made out of fluorescent tubes, mirrors and wallpaper which refer to his original motifs and themes...More »
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"A-Level Art Work" Exhibition
Year 13 students at The British School in Tokyo are exhibiting their A-Level Art Work at the Design Festa Gallery in Harajuku. Entrance is free and the exhibit is for one night only.More »
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"Shikata no Kai" Exhibition
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"The Threads that Bind Us" Exhibition
Works by 19 first-year students at Tokyo University of the Arts inspired by the theme of human connections.More »
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Isao Hirohashi "Painting Profiles"
On display are works that attempt to represent the medium of painting as a whole using supplementary lines to illustrate the hierarchical relations between multiple colors. [Image: Isao Hirohashi, "Tree...More »
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Jin Akaki "Things you see at night"
On display are 20 past oil paintings and two sculptures. [Image: Jin Akaki "Azuchi No. 164" (2009)]More »
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Hiruki Exhibition
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Takuro Sugiyama + Toshiaki Hicosaka "Dead Paintings"
Hicosaka and Sugiyama are two artists working with abstract paintings. This exhibition, as its title implies, deals with motifs of death. [Image: Toshiaki Hicosaka "Adidas" (2012) Giclee, pencil, watercolor,...More »





