Ashley Rawlings
After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he did his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he was a research student in the history of Japanese postwar art at Sophia University, and worked as a freelance editor, writer and translator. In addition to being editor of TABlog from 2006 to 2008, he contributed regularly to online and printed publications such as the Japan Times, ART iT.jp, Saatchi Online, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific and Artforum.com. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, a 272-page guide to the Tokyo art world published by Chin Music Press in 2008. In 2009 he moved to New York, where he works as features editor of ArtAsiaPacific.
Articles
- The Year in Art 2008 — Part Two
- The Year in Art 2008 — Part One
- Nobuo Sekine’s “Phase — Mother Earth” Reborn
- Ghosts in the Lens
- Makoto Aida Exhibition opens at Mizuma Art Gallery
- Photographing the Fallen Sky
- New Gallery Building Opens in Ebisu
- Tokyo’s Urban Parasites
- Hiroaki Morita “Clockwise” opens at Aoyama | Meguro
- Wolfgang Tillmans “Lichter” Opens at Wako Works of Art
- Openings in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
- 101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair Launches
- Stanley Donwood “I Love the Modern World” Opens
- Classic Contemporary
- New Tokyo Contemporaries “End of the tunnel” Opens
- Roppongi Gallery Building Closes
- “The Edge” Opens at the Edge of Ginza
- Take Ninagawa Reopens in Higashi Azabu
- Gallery Building Opens in Shirokane
- Destruction and Regeneration
- Art@Agnes 2008
- The Year in Art 2007
- Hiroshi Sugimoto “Leakage of Light” opens at Gallery Koyanagi
- The Rise of Japanamerica
- An Introduction to ‘Mono-ha’
- Curating from Outside Museums
- Projecting the Future of Art and Education
- Gherkin Watch: July
- Chiharu Nishizawa “For beautiful human life” Opening
- The opening of “Hiroshima, le souffle de l’explosion”
About TABlog
TABlog's writers and video reporters deliver regular reviews, features and interviews to stimulate discussion about all sides of Tokyo's creative scene.