Reviews
Another Future
Kenji Yanobe’s “Levitation” exhibition at YAMAMOTO GENDAI.
Tokyo Transformers
A new show explores transformation in a wealth of international art works.
Unresolved Parts in Photobook Layers
“Hundred Steps And Thousand Stories” at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
This Festival Goes to Eleven
For 2010, the 11th edition of Tokyo FILMeX once again showcases a unique blend of contemporary Asian and world cinema, as well as substantial retrospectives drawing on film history.
Love’s Body
Art in the Age of AIDS.
Identify Yourself
Masahiko Sato and co. put identity into perspective.
The forests where time stops
Jae-Eun Choi “Forests of Asoka” exhibition at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Reading Dickinson in Aoyama
Roni Horn’s exhibition draws on literary sources for its material.
All Five Senses
Three artists reshape Japan’s four seasons.
ANPO: Art X War
A remarkable exploration of postwar art and politics that illuminates the contemporary geopolitical impasse facing Japan.
Clutching at straws, and making music
Mamoru’s sound performances make people aware of what they hear all the time but never listen to.
In search of a sanctuary
Isao Sugiyama “Santuario” exhibition at Tokyo Gallery.
Behold the Man
An exhibition by Robert Waters examines pain, Saint Sebastian and alienation.
Caving In
Berlin-based artist Yukihiro Taguchi’s installation plays with light and shadows.
Return to innocence
‘Pearl Child’ Shinjuko’s biggest exhibition to date at Parabolica-bis.
Effigies of Porn, Almost Dead
Yuuki Matsumura’s sculpture exhibition at Take Ninagawa Gallery.
Darknesses For Light
Contemporary Czech photography enters the Japanese consciousness.
Meaningful Stain
An exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, reflects on the theme of stains in art works.
Hip Hop Portraiture by Che Kothari
The Canadian photographer-activist who directs Manifesto, a community art event in Toronto.
Mysteries happily unsolved
Tam Ochiai’s “spies are only revealed when they get caught” at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.
If fantasies were to have forms
Osamu Mori’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” first solo exhibition at YAMAMOTO GENDAI.
The Sound of Silence
Koichiro Kutsuna’s “Wind Speed 0″ at Radium.
Eggleston in Japan
“Paris – Kyoto” is the photographer William Eggleston’s first solo exhibition in Japan at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.
Open Space 2010: Opening doors towards technology and art
The NTT ICC’s annual multi-media exhibition showcases art works with technological themes.
Voice of Childhood and Evolution
Genichiro Inokuma’s “Inokuma-san” retrospective at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
Devils in the Details
An introduction to Monoqueen Ritsuko Yamashita
Tangible Memories
Seiichi Furuya “Mémoires.” exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
In the Kinky City
Pawel Jaszcuk’s seedy photographs of Tokyo in an exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery.
Architectural Funhouses
“Where Is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects” at the National Museum of Modern Art.
Revolution Found in Blocks of Colour
“Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova: Visions of Constructivism” at the Teien Art Museum.
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