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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ formidable collection of ukiyo-e comes to Tokyo.

Tokyo architecture firm CAt presents three large-scale projects at Gallery Ma.

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.

The Setagaya Art Museum takes a comprehensive look at the life, art, and legacy of visionary Shiseido president Shinzo Fukuhara.

Tetsuya Ishida lays bare the undiscussed dark side of life.

There is more than one way to spin a pot. Perhaps there should be only one way to display it, though.

Meikou Fujimura’s dolls take over a run-down exhibition space in Meguro.

The Suginami Animation Museum celebrates the anniversary of Fujio Akatsuka’s popular manga characters.

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.

Presentation is the key in this exhibition of work by this prominent Japanese photographer.

Fashion designer Junya Tashiro opened an exhibition of his unique fashion creations at Tokyo Midtown’s Design Hub, September 28th-30th.

An exhibition–showroom hybrid perfect for a product design retrospective.

Melting Point at Tokyo Opera City presents three radically different ways to fill a space.

The Saitama Museum of Modern Art takes a retrospective look at the artwork of a cinematic legend.

Masanori Handa’s ‘micropop’ take on a society at play drowning in its own diversions.

Masato Kobayashi mixes painting with sculpture and installation to brilliant effect.

The beloved anime character moves into the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

Weissfeld-Roentgenwerke AG’s current exhibition casts an unusual light on feminist discourse.

It’s hard not to feel somewhat doubtful and slightly cautious when viewing a show of a graffiti-turned-celebrated-museum-artist.

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.

The NTT ICC’s current exhibition is a fusion of art, science, nightclub visuals and childsplay.

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.

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.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo exhibits Henri Michaux’s lyrical abstractions.

Artist group Chim Pom takes over the Mujinto Production gallery with a display documenting its irreverent social interventions.

Can an artist’s work transcend his own presence, even if he is obnoxious, rude, and doesn’t respect his audience?

“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.”

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?

Shiseido Gallery holds an exhibition of Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive but serene artworks.

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?