Lithographic works by 5 artists, who are associated with Takao Okamura Project Exhbition, will be mainly on display. [Image: Yu Hara]

-Talk Event "Toi & Masato" Guests: Masato Seto, Keizo Kitajima Date & Time: May 10th (Sat) 19:00- Fee: ¥1000 (Including 1 drink. Reservation required) Location: Place M For reservation and other information, please call the venue or use online reservation request form.

- Iga, Rouzan Sakamoto & his son Toshihito Ceramic Exhibition Rouzan was born in 1926, and graduated from Waseda University in 1950. He then succeeded to the ceramic studio of Nishiyama. He pursues mastering the Iga tea ceremony ceramic ware, one of the traditional styles of Japanese ceramic. His sun Toshihito was born in 1960 and studied under Kanji Atarashi. A total of 80 vessels and various types of ceramic bowls used at the Japanese tea ceremony are on display. -Yuzo Yagisawa Bamboo Craft Exhibition

It has been 10 years since the opening of his workshop in Nerima, Tokyo. More than just a workspace and atelier, though, Yashima combined his living quarters with his ceramic practice in a single space. The reason for this is Yashima's gourmandizing tendencies, which feed off of and in turn stimulate his work, inspiring him to create beautiful vessels to serve food on. This exhibition, held in a book gallery, is Yashima's attempt at creating a certain impression of a work from a story. It was a much more enjoyable experience than he anticipated. Bit by bit, his work began to take on a whiff of the narrative, surrounded by all these wonderful stories arrayed on shelves standing alongside his pottery.

During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate was patron to artists from the Kano and Sumiyoshi schools as well as folk etching and ukiyo-e artists, all of whom were frequently commissioned for work. Before long, an artistic exchange that transcended the boundaries between warrior and commoner began to gain momentum, and many masterpieces emerged from a process of mutual inspiration among artists of different stripes, contributing to the lively flowering of Edo artistic culture. In this exhibition, pieces from the museum's collection that reflected both public and private will be on display. In addition, folding screens will be on view at the "zashiki (Japanese tatami room) corner." Related events: Talk series on Japanese Art Experts on various fields of art represented in the museum's collection will be invited to share their expertise with the audience. April 12th (Sat) "Tawaraya Sotatsu" Keiko Nakamachi (professor, Jissen Women's University) April 26th (Sat) "The joy of Edo paintings" Satoru Sakakibara (professor, Gunma Prefectural Women's University) May 3rd (Sat) "Harunobu Suzuki" Tadao Kobayashi (professor, Gakushuin University) May 5th (Mon, national holiday) "Hikone folding screens and Kano Naganobu" Taizo Kuroda (chief curator, Idemitsu Museum) May 10th (Sat) "Muromachi era Sumi ink paintings and the West: on the trail of Kanto Sumi paintings" Masahiko Aizawa (professor, Seijo University) May 17th (Sat) "The 18th century Kyoto art world" Yasuhiro Sato (professor, Tokyo University) Each talk starts at 14:00 and lasts for 2 hours. Takes place in the lecture hall of the museum. Admission is free and available to the first 100 visitors.

"Loitering" is the graduation exhibition for the 34th Basic Photography course at the Contemporary Photo Institute, showcasing a year's worth of photographic explorations by a wide variety of people of different ages and occupations united by their common love of this craft. All of these works are large-scale silver monochrome prints.

While the city seems to have been flourishing after climbing out of a recession, it's also said that gaps between social classes have widened these days. As walking around the city, we encounter soon-to-be-forgotten old towns and buildings, where a variety of people live their lives. Placing ourselves in such corners of the city, we feel beauty, nostalgia, agony, sadness, anxiety and frustration. The artist hopes for the city to one day become full of hope and peace. 41 monochrome photographs will be on display.

Information that accumulates, to be shared and transmitted among people living under the same roof. Home is not just a space for communication, but also of learning, mutual understanding and an emotional give and take. This exhibition explores the various design processes that tackle questions like "what does it mean to understand?", or "what does it mean to communicate?"

The word "froth" brings to mind the idea of bubble economies, "bubble" candidates, a sense of fleetingness and disappearance... This exhibition features 10 monochrome works that capture various sorts of froth generated underwater by human aspiration, by other divers nearby, the froth generated by whirlpools, froth seen from above and below, flows and currents in the water, and many other situations.

Director of "2 Tacs", Ryoji Honma is a multitalented creator from Tokyo. This exhibitioin at B Gallery showcases the unique analogue sensitivity of his artwork. Products produced in collaboration Yoshida Kaban will also be on display. -Opening Party Date & Time: April 17th (Thu) 18:00-20:00 -Event "Ryoji Honma Talk Show" Date & Time: April 19th (Sat) 18:00-

This exhibition showcases the 2007 and 2008 Autumn and Winter, 2008 Spring and Summer, and 2008 and 2009 Autumn and Winter collections of the fashion brand Everlasting Sprout. The designers of this brand are only 26 years old but their work has already won much acclaim both in Japan and abroad. Their bold yet delicate fashion sensibility is given poetic form in each design. Their flair for knitting applied to various styles is also noteworthy. Location: Fashion Resource Center Textile Library at Bunka Fashion College

Opening Reception: May 10th (Sat), 18:00-20:00

Opening Thursday, April 10, 2008, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans. This will be his fourth exhibition at Wako Works of Art. Born in Germany in 1968 and based in London since 1996, Tillmans first emerged as an influential artist of his generation through his photographs featured in magazines such as i-D, Interview and The Face, and later from his exploration of the photographic medium in the traditional genres of representation, and his meticulously thought-out wall and tabletop installations and artist's books. In addition to his portraits, landscapes, still lifes and nudes, his wide-ranging subjects also include astronomical images from everyday scenes and abstract works utilizing photogram techniques. This exhibition will present the artist's latest three-dimensional "Lighter" series, large-scale photocopy prints and other new works that reveal the artist's pursuit of new possibilities in photographic expression. Wolfgang Tillmans was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000. The artist has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his works are in public and private collections worldwide. He recently was the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition which traveled from Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. He has been selected for this year's Carnegie International and his work will be included in Mori Art Museum's "History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize" opening April 25, 2008. His latest artist book "Wako Book 4" (edition of 1500) will be released in conjunction with this exhibition. Please join us for a reception for Wolfgang Tillmans on Thursday, April 10, 2008 from 18:00 to 20:00.

Opening Thursday, April 10, 2008, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans. This will be his fourth exhibition at Wako Works of Art. Born in Germany in 1968 and based in London since 1996, Tillmans first emerged as an influential artist of his generation through his photographs featured in magazines such as i-D, Interview and The Face, and later from his exploration of the photographic medium in the traditional genres of representation, and his meticulously thought-out wall and tabletop installations and artist's books. In addition to his portraits, landscapes, still lifes and nudes, his wide-ranging subjects also include astronomical images from everyday scenes and abstract works utilizing photogram techniques. This exhibition will present the artist's latest three-dimensional "Lighter" series, large-scale photocopy prints and other new works that reveal the artist's pursuit of new possibilities in photographic expression. Wolfgang Tillmans was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000. The artist has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his works are in public and private collections worldwide. He recently was the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition which traveled from Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. He has been selected for this year's Carnegie International and his work will be included in Mori Art Museum's "History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize" opening April 25, 2008. His latest artist book "Wako Book 4" (edition of 1500) will be released in conjunction with this exhibition. Please join us for a reception for Wolfgang Tillmans on Thursday, April 10, 2008 from 18:00 to 20:00.

As has been the custom in previous years, this annual exhibition at GA gallery examines trends in housing design, featuring the work of young rising architects as well as established veterans, through a survey of residential projects currently underway around the world. Main Japanese architects include Hiroyuki Arima, Osamu Ishiyama, Keiichi Irie, Hiroshi Sambuichi, Kazuyo Sejima and Katsuhiro Miyamoto. Foreign architects include Zaha Hadid, Felipe Assadi, Will Bruder, Celula Arquitectura, Steven Ehrlich, Mathias Klotz and Steven Holl. [Image: Kazuyo Sejima, "Villa in Hayama" (c) GA photographers]

Shimon Minamikawa's present exhibition, "Pink, Black...War and Peace", is informed by the artist's recent consideration of media imagery. Television news broadcasts include information about world events together with reports on various entertainment-related social happenings. When Minamikawa views such disjointed imagery, he considers these images as being in between "meaning" and "non-meaning". Positive or negative, the television images are simply images and the subsequent emptying of meaning leaves Minamikawa in an absurd position, particularly as he relies upon such representation to gain knowledge about the world. These images comprise Minamikawa's world of facts. Consciousness of this paradoxical situation - dependence upon "non-meaning" to provide a "sense" to the world - prompted him to work on the new body of paintings to be presented at the gallery. Opening reception : April 14th, 19:00 - 20:00 [Image: "Pink Tie, Newscaster (pink), Polka-dots" (2008) Acrylic on canvas 73 x 60.5cm]

Showcasing photographs the artist shot from September 2004 through January 2006 in Minamata City, Kumamoto, and its neighboring areas. Minamata has been known as a place filled with anger and tears. However, its people has started moving on, leaving the lessons of the past behind. The artist captured these people's various expressions, observed their everyday activities and collected small traces of things that belong to this place, portraying in his photographs and words strenuous will power and human dignity. The title of the exhibition speaks for his wish for all people to seize happiness. 30 monochrome photographs will be on display.

An artist's talk will be held on Wednesday, May 7th, 17:30-18:30

Artcomplex Center Tokyo will be exhibiting rare vintage autographed books, serial numbered limited editions and so forth, in collaboration with vintagebooks.jp. -Dates & Locations April 15th (Tue)-May 4th (Sun) ACT4 May 6th (Tue)-May 11th (Sun) ACT3 May 13th (Tue)-May 31st (Sat) ACT2

The Nerima Museum has built up a strong collection of works since its opening, many of which were generously donated by the artists' families or collectors. Although these works have previously been exhibited as part of its permanent collection, this particular exhibition focuses on the works of 6 artists that have recently been acquired. Audiences will get a chance to view these works up close and acquire a deeper appreciation for their characteristics and shifts in each artist's style. The below related events will be held Every Saturday from 14:00 for the duration of the exhibition. Advance reservation is not required, but admission is necessary. -Gallery talk by curators and museum volunteers April 5th, 12th, 26th, May 10th, 24th, 31st (sign language interpreters will be on hand on April 26th and May 24th) -Artist talks April 19th Kazue Tsuda May 3rd Seishi Kosaku May 17th Tatsuo Endo

This exhibition presents two of sculptor Claire Xuan's most recent works, "Provence" and "Japan". These book-objects, also called portfolios or travel diaries, were published in a limited edition of 999 copies by the French publisher "Eléments d'Edition" as part of the "Collection of the 5 elements." They will be shown together with about 20 photographic works produced in France and Japan, in order to dissociate the process of photographic work and that of art publishing. These photographs evoke the natural elements - water, wood and earth, presented here as the principal subject. They are presented in glass cases under their original form, destructured as it were, in order to make them more legible, as well as to facilitate an appreciation of the artistic process by which they were made. Sheets of parchment paper that also revolve around the theme of natural elements evoked by the portfolios will also be on display. This exhibition is held in collaboration with the gallery of the United Nations University in Tokyo. Technique and paper These travel diaries are distinguished from each other in part by the printing technique, as well as by the artisanal process of the book-object. Situated somewhere between the book lover's book and a coffer of ancient engravings, these travel diaries, unedited and unaltered, are something of a fusion of contemporary techniques used by professional art publishers and a long heritage of printing traditions. Each original photograph is printed in four colors using a monocolor press, on 250-300g weight paper, composed exclusively of natural fibers that are more often used for engravings and lithographs (virgin cotton fibers). This handmade paper produced according to a traditional artisanal technique is most often produced for engraving purposes. Special attention is given to the drying process between different color passages. The paper is then joined with coffers made entirely by hand with rare types of paper, composed mostly of tea fibers and algae, parchment paper, or even paper that has been made in the country of origin where the coffer came from. The "Japan" portfolio is of particular interest, having been achieved on traditional Japanese washi paper. Each work has been realized on a different sheet of washi, conferring on each of the works a unique character. Xuan has personally overseen the creation of each work and the putting together of each portfolio. Meet-the-artist session, over a glass of wine (with French-Japanese translation) May 31st (Sat) 15:30-17:30 in the gallery on the second floor Held concurrently: Claire Xuan "In the Open Air" May 12th - June 1st 2008 (9:30-17:30) Gallery 1, United Nations University in Tokyo (5-53-70 Jingumae,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo Tel : 03-5467-1212)

Kazuyoshi Mikoshi is a photographer who has shot scenes of Tahiti, the Maldives, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas, and the North Pole, a lifelong vocation that began ever since his first visit to Okinawa when he was 13. He had his first solo show while still a high school student, and was awarded the Ihe Kimura Prize for photography for his photo collection "Paradise", the youngest ever recipient of the award. This exhibition showcases Mikoshi's stunning landscape shots of Morocco, situated in the northwest corner of Africa, adjoining both an inland sea and the ocean to the north. In the center of the country runs the Atlas mountain range. Rolling plains lie in the western part of the country, and arid desert can be found in the southeast. Also known as "Country of the West," or "Country of the Setting Sun," Morocco is a faraway land from the perspective of Japan and the Far East. Filled with historical cities and labyrinthine streets, Morocco is a land of warm and spirited people. "Moroccans have this unbelievable sense of power and strength about them. When I tried to film these Arabic people with their enigmatic smiles, meeting their gaze, I felt as if my heart had been drawn in and captured," says Mikoshi.

This is Kitamura's first solo exhibition, featuring his representative sculptures and drawings. What intrigued Kitamura after graduating from sculpture department of Tokyo University of the Arts was a spectacular world of pro-wrestling, in which fiction and reality collides with each other. While Kitamura's creation is based on existing wrestlers with macho bodies, the outcome emanates floating-like presence. This is due in part to his choice of mediums (light-transmissive wax, shiny pigments, etc.), which reveals his obsession in colors and surfaces, while it's also due to skillfully utilized plasticity of materials such as strings and rubber. Unpredictable sense of humor and vacuous beauty coexist in these wrestler figures. It's just as if Kitamura honors legendary gods, who appear in modern myth of pro-wrestling. -Reception Date & Time: May 10th (Sat) 18:00-20:00

This exhibition is one of numerous events being held to commemorate 150 years of exchange between France and Japan. Garments, fashion plates and magazines from the Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum collection from the mid eighteenth century to the present will be on display. Gallery talks are scheduled also.

This year Galerie Taisei celebrates its fifteenth year as well as 120 years since the birth of twentieth century architectural master Le Corbusier. This exhibition will present creative sculptures by the architect and the unique activities of the gallery in a three-part exhibition series. Part 1: Le Corbusier the Painter December 3rd, 2007 - February 8th, 2008 Part 2: Le Corbusier The Painter and Architect: Integrating the disciplines February 18th - April 11th, 2008 Part 3: Le Corbusier Expanding his Architecture May 21st - June 20th, 2008

Light cloth made out of natural materials that wrap around you like a soft breeze, or a shaft of light. Vessels and earthenware with the warmth of earth. The rugged strength of iron tools. This exhibition is a celebration of natural materials and refined colors in these everyday products. It displays interior accessories in a gallery setting, showing them off to their best advantage just as they might have been deployed in a home. Advice and commentary on the most felicitous arrangements according to the size, shape and color of the room are also on display.

Formula One™, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of motor sports. The best cars and designs, the infatuation with speed in one of the world's top sports events that captures hearts everywhere. This exhibition explores the revolutionary designs contributed to F1 over the years. [Image: © Design Museum, London Formula One™ - The Great Design Race Tour was organised by the Design Museum, London and curated by Alicia Pivaro.]

Known for his vigorously individual style, Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) was a prominent French Fauvist, along with Matisse and Derain. This exhibition commemorates 50 years since his passing, and features over 70 pieces spanning his entire career, divided into sections entitled "Works from his Fauvist period," "Works in Cezanne's style," post-WWI, "Dynamic Landscapes" and so on.

In most cases, Nagai starts by developing the background of her painting. Her stories take place in different places and situations such as a forest, a snowy landscape, beach, someone's room and so on. She takes her motifs from these newly created worlds, evoking feelings that are hard to verbalize. In a certain sense, her paintings are accumulations of "anything" that has caught her attention. For example, Nagai always finds a space in her painting for a pillow using a motif found on her own teacup. The pillow plays a significant role contextually as well as visually. Also, she uses various media in her painting such as acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, regular pencil, and pastel. This is again for the purpose of depicting the exact motif or feeling found in any given landscape. [Image: "A Story in the Forest" (2007) Oil, acrylic on canvas 182.0 x 227.5cm Photo: Ikuhiro Watanabe]

Part of the gallery, plus library, mini theater and lounge will be used as "ICC Open Space", a free communication space open to the public. ICC has consistently aimed at providing a space for the free appreciation of intersections between art and technology, developments in research, networks and archives through its "corners" and zones", as well as many works of art. Various materials, videos and recordings pertaining to the history of the ICC's activities are also available for reference purposes. A cafe, shop and rest space are also provided, allowing viewers to create their own encounters and exchanges with cutting edge technologies, means of communication and modes of culture. [Image: Hive Corner]

Jim O’Connell documents Tokyo’s red-light district, making connections with Kabukicho’s working men and women, revelers and passers-by. This exhibition comprises of ten photographs shot in 2006. This event is taking place in , a bar in Golden Gai.

Imazu, Iwano and Tsukamoto work with an ostensibly flat surface, creating a different space with a sense of spatial depth. Abe, Shiozu and Morimoto blend handiwork and digital effects to achieve their unique 2D work. Taking "ex-surface" (expanding interface) as their motif, these six artists work to deconstruct the surfaces of their chosen media using special techniques that reflect their personal sense of the world. Opening reception: May 17th (Sat) 18:00-

This is Field's first solo exhibition in Japan, also held in conjunction with the Japan tour of his band, Little Wing. He previously garnered praise for his work for moools and Relax magazine. Live performance in the gallery: May 29th (Thu) ¥1500, one drink order Reservation required

An artist's talk will be held on Wednesday, Jun 18th, 12:15-13:00

An artist's talk will be held Wednesday, July 2nd, 17:30-18:30

There will be an artist talk on Monday, August 4th,17:30-18:30

An artist talk will be held Tuesday, September 2nd, 17:30-18:30