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Tadasu Takamine attempts to stamp the supercapacitor onto popular consciousness in his solo exhibition at Arataniurano.

Hillside Terrace Gallery hosts “Into The Atomic Sunshine”, a traveling exhibition that examines Article 9 of the Japanese constitution.

Art Scope 2007/2008 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art showcases the products of German-Japanese exchange.

The ghost of New York’s Alleged Gallery comes back to haunt Tokyo with the ‘Beautiful Losers’ Show at Harajuku’s La Foret Museum.

Skip City Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza offers a somewhat muddy exhibition about colour.

Roni Horn’s photographic installation at Rat Hole Gallery explores the nuances of intimate portraiture.

Fabrice Hyber’s vegetal happenings have been taking place in and around the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art all summer.

GA Gallery’s “International 2008” takes architecture off the street and presents it to you in print.

Akino Kondoh’s second exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery unveils a bold shift towards painting and a darker world.

Gallery Cosmos holds a group show of diverse works by photography lovers.

Exhibit of Australian architect Glenn Murcutt allows viewer to examine the nuts and bolts of architecture.

Bauhaus exhibit Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music brings it back to the basics.

Ken Hamaguchi confronts the devious nature of female sexuality in “Black, Sutra and the Rest”.

Tomio Koyama Gallery showcases the work of American artist Benjamin Edwards, who recombines urban DNA into startling images of cities without architecture.

From Meiji chocolate to nuclear energy — The Printing Museum showcases key examples of graphic design from the 1950s.

Work by artists from diverse genres and historical periods come together for a garden-themed show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

Four artists explore the deification of light at the Center for Cosmic Wonder.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo holds a broad retrospective of Brazilian-Japanese artist Oscar Oiwa’s career.

SCAI x SCAI presents the work of two Art Initiative Tokyo’s artists-in-residence.

The Artlantico Gallery in Kagurazaka plays host this month to six young Tokyo-based artists, all of whom have in recent years been garnering increasing recognition from Tokyo’s art community.

Gallery Koyanagi is alive with colour as it displays the work of Federico Herrero.

SCAI The Bathhouse has been taken over by sinister, sentient machines.

This month Tokyo Wonder Site’s space in Shibuya gives you three artists for the price of one, or more accurately two shows for the price of none.

An exhibition of the Shanghai Art Museum’s collection of Chinese contemporary art offers a historical counterweight to the razzmatazz of the art market.

The Turner Prize retrospective at the Mori Art Museum offers a rather “filtered” survey of contemporary British Art.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery holds an exhibition of Formula One design.

Exhibiting both at the Mori Art Museum and at Ota Fine Arts, Saskia Olde Wolbers’ haunting video works explore the boundaries of narrative.

Takashi Homma’s photographs at Gallery 360° portray the quiet unease of suburban Tokyo.

Shimon Minamikawa’s work addresses society’s saturated relationship with the media.

Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama hangs up some art on its line of clothing.