Features
10 Exhibitions to See During Golden Week
Some of the top art attractions over the coming holidays.
10 Other Things to See During Hanami Season
Cherry blossom viewing time is also a great time to see exhibitions around Tokyo.
No Rest for the Artistic
The fourth Roppongi Art Night appoints for the first time an artistic director.
Defining New Diary Forms Today
Private life is becoming public, and public life is becoming private; so the message goes with this year’s Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Yebizo).
2012: A Year of Arts News in Japan
Exhibitions, (re-)openings, new appointments, scandals and more…
2012 Year in Review
A short round-up of the year just passed
Designing New Social Systems Through Sharing and Networking: Culture and Social Innovation – Tokyo Conference
A report on the second day of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project’s international conference, held at Tosho Hall on October 20, 2012
The Sight-Sound Connection
A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo investigates the relationship between music and art
Immigrating into Uncertainty
Festival/Tokyo 2012 opens with a provocative, interactive site-specific installation in the Sugamo area
Commemorating Tragedy, Celebrating Recovery
Roppongi Art Night returns to “revitalize Japan with Art”
Empty Centres Turned into White Lines
The Park Project public art program transforms an area of Yoyogi Park
The Music of Baths
Musician Makoto Nomura’s “orchestra” at Art Access Adachi’s public bath concert
A Pause for Urban Progress
Tadashi Kawamata’s Tokyo in Progress project rises in the east of the city
Conceiving of the Future After the March 11 Earthquake
A report on the second day of the Future Sketch Tokyo Conference, held at the Akihabara Convention Hall on October 29, 2011
The Physical, the Material and the Moving Image
The fourth installment of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions.
Goodbye Kitty
A rough guide to the art galleries and museums which will keep all the family happy
2011 Year in Review
It’s been a traumatic year for Japan and the Tokyo art world
The Architectural Mirror
“Architectural Environments for Tomorrow, New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art (Tokyo Art Meeting II)” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Going West: An Arts Festival Take-Over
The TERATOTERA Matsuri transformed Kichijoji through a mix of art, dance, music, film and more
To the Heart of It
Festival/Tokyo, Japan’s largest performing arts event, tackles the post-3.11 zeitgeist
Tokyo Mourning Becomes Electra
Interactive theatre project “The House of Atreus” allows participants to explore the boundary between the public and the private, between their own narratives and those handed to them, in the wake of 3.11.
Getting Down to Business
Considering the relationship between Japan’s corporate sector and the art world.
Re-Thinking Human Ecology After 3.11
TABlog tags along to an art tour to visit the Dojima River Biennale 2011 in Osaka, organized by Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo.
Searching for the Roots of Taiko
Traditional taiko group Amanojaku proves that drums can be more than just background music
A Summer Night “Delusion” Tour with the Mōsō Cafe
Exploring the hidden streets of Tokyo’s Yanaka district
Tadashi Kawamata’s “Tokyo in Progress”
Thinking and narrating Tokyo: A phantom tower makes landfall along the Sumida River
3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
“Daydream Believer”: using the power of the image to give invisible dreams a visible form.
Stories from 110 People in Koganei
Ongoing art project that emerged out of student research gets to the heart of Koganei through a series of talks.
Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony 2010 (Tokyo Traditional Arts Program)
Pointers for contemporary life gleaned from traditional Japanese culture.
The Forgotten Art Scene
A run-down on recent Nagoya art world developments.
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