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Can digital photography be considered inherently Japanese?

A look at the diverse, cross-media work of Chikara Matsumoto, one of Japan’s up-and-coming artists.

Over the past three years since co-founding Tokyo Art Beat, I’ve come across hundreds of gallery, museum and event space websites - some good, and some bad.

A roughly chronological look at some personal highlights from among the exhibitions and events held during 2007.

Tokyo-based Belgian artist Eric Van Hove’s latest installation makes novel use of ‘public’ space.

Through a series of exhibitions and events, art students are injecting the gray expanse of Tokyo’s central east business district with some color and life.

The second installment of the Mori Art Museum’s survey of Japanese contemporary art consists of 36 artists that you apparently must see now.

This October, TAB celebrated its 3rd birthday in style at Super Deluxe in Roppongi.

In the run up to Aoyama’s solo show at the Mizuma Art Gallery this month, Ai Kikuchi looks back at the artist’s last exhibition in London and asks him about some of the ideas brought up in his work.

Famed Swedish photographer brings his “family photo album” to Tokyo, and invites you to the world of 1960s Hamburg.

Looking at the portrayal of Japanese modern history in “Taisho Chic” and some recent exhibitions.

Although it marked a major turning point in Japanese postwar art history, the work of the ‘Mono-ha’ artists remains surprisingly unknown.

The modernist architect’s struggle to harmonize a reinforced-concrete-and-glass box with encircling trees and gardens, flowing slopes and streams, has proved vastly influential.