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A French artist bends the rules of photography, printing and graffiti.

Top designers descended on Roppongi for the opening night.

The IID, home to many creators-in-residence, held a big bash.

There’s a new gallery in town. TAB was at the opening of YUKA Contemporary and its inaugural exhibition by Kiichiro Adachi.

A photo journey of English teachers encountered along the Tokaido.

Mariko Mori’s new show “Flat Stone” opened at SCAI The Bathhouse.

You’ve all heard of the Takashi Murakami event but what about the Geidai (Tokyo University of the Arts) festival?

A collaborative experiment in purposeful childishness at No.12 gallery.

Tokyo isn’t the only place to experience contemporary art in Japan. Currently Niigata is hosting a land art triennial that moves far beyond the white cube – utilizing former elementary schools, community centers, old homes and outdoor spaces as new sites for creative work.

Tokyo’s first art book fair got off to a fun and bustling start.

A Tokyo gallery crawl.

PR stunt artists or modern day Dadaists, love ‘em or hate ‘em, Chim↑Pom put on a good show.

Japan’s biggest art fair was just that, a really big art fair. Almost impossible to navigate without getting exhausted, there was at least something for everyone. TAB offers a selected handful of the most interesting booths…

Despite the recession, 101Tokyo, the satellite event to Art Fair Tokyo, got off to a loud and bustling start in Akihabara.

The streets of Roppongi conjure up images of sleaze and shopping, art museums and international banks. One Saturday night the whole area came alive with some very fun, very strange public art…

The art and design event “Fragment” took place at Super Deluxe, organized by Tokyo Made.

GEISAI #12 brought together the expected mix of the talented, the scary and the downright bizarre.

NADA, the New Art Dealers Alliance, delivers what the name suggests — new, young and exciting galleries and art from as many as 19 countries, including Japan.

To mark its 40th anniversary, the Mono-ha artist’s seminal artwork is recreated in Tamagawa’s Den-en Chofu Seseragi Park.

ZAIM is holding an exhibition of young Japanese artists, while “After Hours”, a non-Triennale set of panel discussions was also held nearby.

BankART Studio NYK, a former bank building converted into an art space, is one of the key venues in the Triennale, housing work by some twenty artists.

More photographic coverage from one of the main venues of the Yokohama Triennale.

To kick start its coverage of the Yokohama Triennale, TAB is bringing you a series of photo reports from a variety of locations in Yokohama to give you a glimpse inside this city-wide art extravaganza.

Mizuma Art Gallery is holding Makoto Aida’s first solo exhibition in three years.

After NADiff bookstore closed its Omotesando premises last summer, and Magical Artroom left the Roppongi Gallery Complex in February, the two reopen their doors in a stylish building in Ebisu, known as NADiff a/p/a/r/t, together with G/P Gallery, Art Jam Contemporary and Magic Room.

TAB covers the growth of an instruction-based artwork by Nina Beier and Marie Lund on show at Wako Works of Art.

Aoyama | Meguro holds an exhibition of Hiroaki Morita’s video, photography and installation work that explore our understanding of time.

For his fourth exhibition at Wako Works of Art, Wolfgang Tillmans is showing a variety of new work.

Tokyo Art Week opens a new front with simultaneous exhibition openings by the major commercial galleries in East Tokyo.

2008 sees Tokyo’s first satellite art fair established, showcasing all-contemporary galleries from Japan and abroad.