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We look at the key areas and galleries in the city.

We look back at the gallery shifts and movements over the last twelve months, and some of the top exhibitions.

Romeo Castellucci’s extraordinary theatrical feast lands in Tokyo.

An artist’s work explores the nature of found art, publication and transference.

Sophie Knight made a zine for the recent Zine’s Mate book fair. Here she relates her experience and discusses how zines might just save print.

A very special music event in a very special setting.

In our second article on mail art, TABlog tells you how to start up your own network and get involved.

A compelling look at contemporary transportation in a manga for our times.

You might have heard of this underground art form, as much a social medium as an artistic one. In the first of two articles, TABlog showcases some examples of mail art.

Design Festa Vol. 29 is fast approaching but what is all the fuss about? Tokyo Art Beat explains the basics…

101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair is fast approaching but what is all the fuss about? Tokyo Art Beat explains the basics…

Art Fair Tokyo 2009 is fast approaching but what is all the fuss about? Tokyo Art Beat explains the basics…

Internationally renowned British artist Darren Almond has focused a lot of his work on trains and travel. From his Train Trilogy to earlier pieces, collectivity is a key but at times ignored element in Almond’s art.

GEISAI #12 is fast approaching but what exactly is GEISAI? Tokyo Art Beat explains the basics…

A look back at key exhibitions and events that shaped the Tokyo art scene from July to December.

A look back at key exhibitions and events that shaped the Tokyo art scene from January to June.

How is Tokyo reconciling the gulf between the development of its urban space and activities in its virtual space?

With end of year celebrations just round the corner, TABlog writers have put together a guide to some of the best Japan art / design / craft / guide books published in 2008. Give them to your sweetheart, friends, yourself or why not your local library!

A look around the art spaces, cafés and boutiques of the Koganecho Bazaar in Yokohama.

Timothy R. Lehman’s Manga: Masters of the Art features interviews with twelve of his favored manga artists to present a nuanced look at their creative processes.

Yuko Iida at the Star Gallery: “An Uneasy Journey through Asia”, and reflections on the emerging ‘local, global’ dimensions of Japanese art now [volume one].

A look at how the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art charts the life of the renowned painter and sculptor.

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.

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.