Reviews
Viewing the Masters Collectively
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ formidable collection of ukiyo-e comes to Tokyo.
The CAt’s Meow
Tokyo architecture firm CAt presents three large-scale projects at Gallery Ma.
Too Easy To Illustrate
How did more than 30 years of making Soviet children’s book illustrations affect the conceptual and compositional sensibility of Ilya Kabakov’s non-Soviet artwork? We may never know.
Retrospective of a Corporate Artist
The Setagaya Art Museum takes a comprehensive look at the life, art, and legacy of visionary Shiseido president Shinzo Fukuhara.
“A Little Exhibit” Shows a lot of Emotion
Tetsuya Ishida lays bare the undiscussed dark side of life.
Wobble is Everything
There is more than one way to spin a pot. Perhaps there should be only one way to display it, though.
Dolls and Decay
Meikou Fujimura’s dolls take over a run-down exhibition space in Meguro.
Tensai Bakabon turns 40
The Suginami Animation Museum celebrates the anniversary of Fujio Akatsuka’s popular manga characters.
Making sense of ‘Collapse’
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo redisplays works in its collection in a study of how artists have responded to the disasters of the 20th century.
Black Box, White Box: Setting Foot in Risaku Suzuki’s Nature Photography
Presentation is the key in this exhibition of work by this prominent Japanese photographer.
Clothes that Mature like Fine Wine
Fashion designer Junya Tashiro opened an exhibition of his unique fashion creations at Tokyo Midtown’s Design Hub, September 28th-30th.
Kodue Hibino’s Commodity Utopia
An exhibition–showroom hybrid perfect for a product design retrospective.
Tripolar Disorder?
Melting Point at Tokyo Opera City presents three radically different ways to fill a space.
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Multimedia Tradition
The Saitama Museum of Modern Art takes a retrospective look at the artwork of a cinematic legend.
Beached and Marooned: The Aftermath of Leisure
Masanori Handa’s ‘micropop’ take on a society at play drowning in its own diversions.
Shedding new light on Painting
Masato Kobayashi mixes painting with sculpture and installation to brilliant effect.
Kazuo Oga - The Man Who Drew Totoro’s Forest
The beloved anime character moves into the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
On the Fence
Weissfeld-Roentgenwerke AG’s current exhibition casts an unusual light on feminist discourse.
Barry McGee: Maintaining his Street Cred with Ease
It’s hard not to feel somewhat doubtful and slightly cautious when viewing a show of a graffiti-turned-celebrated-museum-artist.
A Japanese Eden in a Darkened Warehouse
Looking at how Asakusa is now, overrun by a postmodern jumble of plastic buildings, there are few clues to the Sumida river’s ancestry as the key waterway of mercantile Edo.
360 degrees of Virtual Play
The NTT ICC’s current exhibition is a fusion of art, science, nightclub visuals and childsplay.
Exhaustive Observations and Commentaries on Fashion
As though the exhibition space has been turned into a fashion show catwalk, visitors enter along a raised white platform, observed on either side by the royalty of the fashion industry: Gaultier, Klein and Lacroix.
Looking Back at Design Festa 2007
Every year, Tokyo Big Sight is filled with hundreds of young artists hoping to catch the attention of gallery owners and collectors: a forum of creativity in which there really is something for everybody.
Movements on Mescaline
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo exhibits Henri Michaux’s lyrical abstractions.
Harnessing Tokyo’s Libido for Artistic Ends
Artist group Chim Pom takes over the Mujinto Production gallery with a display documenting its irreverent social interventions.
To See or Not To See – Cursing the Artist’s Presence at Seiichi Furuya’s “Im Fluss”
Can an artist’s work transcend his own presence, even if he is obnoxious, rude, and doesn’t respect his audience?
Shirts, Skirts and Skyscrapers
“I want a dress with the structural support of Tokyo Tower.” “Those apartments would look better with printed pictures of watermelons with black, neon blue or lavender backgrounds on the walls.”
Vivo: Photography from 1960s Japan
Sometimes it’s better to admit you don’t know. Just what, or who was ‘Vivo’…and why did they seem to be mentioned everywhere?
Paintings by a Pyrotechnic
Shiseido Gallery holds an exhibition of Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive but serene artworks.
The Living Museum of Art
Where else in the world can you see a collection of the most famous paintings of all time for the price of a few coins tossed into a box?
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