Hara Museum Arc (Gunma) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hara Museum Arc (Gunma). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Shop@Cafe Christo / Hitomi Uchikura
Shop@Cafe introduces works and special goods that decorate everyday life with the key phrase “art in our every day lives”. For the 10th installment, an offset lithograph autographed by art legend Christo...More »
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The Look of Hope-Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Drawing - Nihonga - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation
- 2020-07-11 - 2020-11-03
Since the beginning, we humans have had the custom of saying or sharing something in order to mutually heal, energize, bolster or encourage one another. Faced as we are with an invisible enemy that is...More »
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A Trio of Masters-Eitoku, Tan’yu and Okyo
This exhibition looks mainly at the work of three painters who were active during the period from the Momoyama era to the Edo era. Kano Eitoku (1543-90) is credited with many of the magnificent paintings...More »
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Portraits: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
*Hara Museum Arc is temporarily closed until May 15. The museum will be open from May 16. Featuring portraits by a variety of artists, including all 24 works in the “Rembrandt” series by Yasumasa Morimura....More »
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Masterpieces from the Hara Rokuro Collection
*Hara Museum Arc is temporarily closed until May 15. The museum will be open from May 16. Masterworks featured in this exhibition include “Rei Shojo with Flower Basket”, which depicts the Chinese devotee...More »
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Arata Isozaki at the Kankai Pavilion
The sharp angular shapes and unifying shades of black of its buildings are what characterizes Hara Museum ARC. The museum is happy to announce an exhibition by the architect who designed them – Arata Isozaki....More »
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Izumi Kato “Like a Rolling Snowball”
Izumi Kato is an artist known for his powerful and mysterious depictions of human-like figures with a primitivistic air. Kato began his career as a painter in the mid-1990s and began making wooden sculptures...More »
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Meet the Artist: Tadanori Yokoo
The renowned artist will speak about a variety of topics, including his relationship with the architect Arata Isozaki who was the designer of the buildings at Hara Museum ARC, his memories of the solo...More »
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The Ys from the Hara Museum Collection
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Talks
- 2019-03-09 - 2019-06-30
Since antiquity artists have sought out adventures and challenges to forge their own unique styles. Focusing on large-scale works from the Hara Museum Collection – notably, five by Tadanori Yokoo and seven...More »
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Masterworks of the Kano School from the Hara Rokuro Collection
The Kano school was the most influential school of pre-modern painting in Japan, holding sway for close to 400 years, from the Muromachi period to the Edo period. Drawing upon the considerable holdings...More »
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Flash 1979/1988
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation
- 2018-10-06 - 2019-01-14
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Shinagawa was established in 1979 on the heels of a nationwide boom in art museums. Hara Museum Arc in Gunma Prefecture opened in 1988, making this year its 30th anniversary....More »
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Praises and Prayers—Selections from the Hara Rokuro Collection
This two-part exhibition features works from the Hara Rokuro Collection centered on two themes: praises and prayers. The first part, Praises, is the celebration of life as represented in works by Mori...More »
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Monyochita “Hello Hello Konnichiwa”
“Shop@Cafe showcases interesting goods and artwork with the aim of “bringing art to people’s daily lives”. This summer’s event, the seventh, will feature paintings by Gunma native Monyochita. On exhibit,...More »
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Stop and Go
In the mid-20th century Jean Tinguely established himself as a master of kinetic art, a movement that focused on natural and humanmade sources of power in moving artworks, which Tinguely assembled from...More »
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Motion and Quiet
Regardless of East or West, artists have long depicted movement in immovable paintings and sculptures. At the same time, they have also emphasized the immovable quality of objects. This exhibition selects...More »
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Art on the Road – Three Traveling Exhibitions From the Hara Museum
This exhibit shines a spotlight on three international exhibits held by the Hara Museum in the 1990s, “A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors”, “Photography and Beyond in Japan”, and “Shiro...More »
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A Bounty of Art
During the long history of Japanese art, a great many painters have left behind a legacy of exquisite masterpieces. The Kano painters stand out as the largest school and one whose dominance lasted more...More »
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Kengo Kito “Multiple Star Ⅲ”
This is the third and final installment of the three part ten-month exhibition currently being held in Gallery A at Hara Museum Arc. In Part I, Kengo Kito unveiled an installation comprising 1,300 hula...More »
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Layered Forms - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
The keyword behind the works from the Hara Museum Collection featured in this exhibition is “layer,” a reference not only to a work’s structural aspect, but also to the idea of “layers of meaning.” In...More »
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Jewelry Forest: From Natural to Pop by Noboru Shionoya
Shop@Cafe is a continuing series of small exhibits that showcase popular and trendy goods under the catchphrase “Living with Art.” This summer, the work of Noboru Shionoya, a jewelry artist who has won...More »
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Kengo Kito “Multiple Star Ⅱ”
Kengo Kito produces artworks incorporating colorful materials common in everyday life using a variety of expressive methods, including large-scale installation, sculpture and painting. Featured in the...More »
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Echoes of the Line
The line is fundamental to all pictorial expression. Lines can vary in texture and thickness according to the force and speed of the artist’s hand. Every drawing starts with the laying down of a single...More »
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Adventures in color and shape
Often contemporary artists do not try to capture subjects realistically, but experiment with colors and shapes in order to communicate a specific message or image of something, or to give form to something...More »
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Old Meets New: Contemporary Art in the Sho-in Style Pavilion
Since opening the Kankai Pavilion - a venue where traditional art meets contemporary art - in 2008, the museum has hosted a special exhibition of contemporary art around once a year. Visitors can explore...More »
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Kengo Kito “Multiple Star I”
Kengo Kito produces artworks incorporating colorful materials common in everyday life using a variety of expressive methods, including large-scale installation, sculpture and painting. Featured in the...More »
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The Cosmic Eye - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2017-03-11 - 2017-06-25
People have been looking up to the sky since ancient times. In addition to making scientific observations, such as weather forecasts, we have long been telling stories about the stars. By forming recognizable...More »
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Good Fortune / Great Beauty
Since ancient times in Japan, auspicious motifs have been used for special occasions, seasonal holidays and in daily life as wishes for good fortune. “Fortune” is the theme of this season’s exhibition,...More »
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Traces of a Dream – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film - Animation - Workshops - Talks
- 2016-09-17 - 2017-01-09
The word “dream” has two meanings: one refers to visions conjured up during sleep and the other an aspiration for a certain future. Christo and Jeanne-Claude carried out large-scale projects around the...More »
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Summer, Travels, Tales
An array of artworks with themes of summertime travel and memories take the viewer on sentimental journeys to the past and future. Some 120 Hara Museum Arc collection pieces by artists such as Sophie Calle,...More »
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Between Visible and Invisible
The world is full of the things that the eye cannot see. The wind the air, the temperature, the sounds around us. But art gives us the power to represent these forces in some way, through utopian landscapes...More »
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The World of Creatures
Since time immemorial, animals have existed in close proximity to humans as objects of the hunt, as beasts of burden or as pets. They often appear as the protagonist in the world of literature....More »
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The Feast of the Goddesses: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Rembrandt left behind a portrait of his wife Saskia modeled after Flora, the goddess of fertility and flowers. The contemporary artist Yasumasa Morimura walks in the footsteps of art history and artists...More »
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Time Visualized - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Be it through paintings, sculptures, film, or other media, artists express “time,” something invisible to the human eye, in a variety of forms. Here artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lee Ufan, Tokihiro...More »
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Picturing Landscapes
Ancient Japanese landscape paintings often depicted Chinese scenery, but there is also a long tradition of native landscapes in Japanese art. Many of these paintings joined image with verse, portraying...More »
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Nakadai Ikaho Factory: Mono Factory x Hara Museum Arc
Taking industrial waste as materials here a series of workshops open up extraordinary discoveries as led by creative recyclers Nakadai with over 100 different types of waste material awaiting to be transformed....More »
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Kenichi Kanazawa “Creating Fragments of Sound – Connecting Hand, Eye and Ear”
[Workshop] Date: August 2 10:00-16:00 Suitable for 4th grade elementary school students and above Capacity: 10 participants Admission: 3000 yen (exhibition entry separate) A music workshop using welded...More »
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Homage―Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video and Film - Media Arts
- 2015-07-18 - 2015-10-12
Taking a hint from the concurrent show at the Kankai Pavilion, “Line and Space: Cy Twombly and East Asia”, this exhibition showcases works by contemporary art masters who, like Twombly, have left a solid...More »
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Line and Space: Cy Twombly and East Asia
As the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art opens a retrospective of the painting master Cy Twombly following his 50 year career through a focus upon drawing and monotypes on paper, Hara Museum Arc presents...More »
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A View with a Story - Hara Museum Collection
The spring scene of Hara Museum Arc brings together a harmony of Mount Akagi in the distance and clouds of cherry blossom and glistening new green in the foreground. This exhibition takes up the theme...More »
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Screen and Wall Paintings of Eitoku and the Kano School
The Rokuro Hara collection features the murals of the Miidera Temple’s former Nikkoin Temple reception hall, with wall paintings and screen based works painted in ink by members of the Kano School. These...More »
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Auspicious Beauty - Art for the New Year
A fine selection of historic arts and crafts embodying traditional Japanese aesthetics prepare the way to welcome in the New Year.More »
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20th Anniversary Workshop “A Time of Rebirth: The Persimmon Tree Project”
“A Time of Rebirth: The Persimmon Tree Project” began 20 years ago with children planting samplings grown from the seeds of a persimmon tree that survived the atomic explosion in Nagasaki. Hara Museum...More »
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The Hara Museum Collection— 35 Years of International Exchange
- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-10-11 - 2015-01-04
The main branch of Hara Museum Arc opened in Shinagawa, Tokyo in December 1979. In commemoration of the museum’s 35th anniversary, it is holding simultaneous collection exhibitions in Tokyo and Gunma reflecting...More »
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Power of the Spirit, the Sage and the Imagination
In Japan, a variety of imaginary characters endowed with unique powers appear in many of the tales that have been passed down through the ages. Over time, these characters have come to be used in a variety...More »
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Pictures That Tell a Story
Indulge yourself in the spirit of these pictures by tracing the fine details in their facial expressions and lines. Wrestlers battling against each other, a sigh of grief, a figure singing— these images...More »
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Hiroshi Fuji “The Unexplored World of the Toysaurus”
The artist Hiroshi Fuji is renowned for his unique production of platforms which bring individuals together in dialogue and build new relationships between participants. Acclaimed for his innovative system...More »
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The New within the Old: Contemporary Art from the Hara Museum Collection
The Kankai Pavilion was constructed in 2008 as a place for traditional art and contemporary art to come together. In the latest experiment in this series an exhibition of purely contemporary art, with...More »
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“Sliding Doors of the Kano School - Rokuro Hara Collection”
The sliding door paintings of the former Nikkoin Temple of Miidera Temple, sub-temple of Onjo-ji Temple, Otsu, Shiga prefecture, decorated every room of the grand hall in ink drawings of the Kano school....More »
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“Joy! Selections From the Hara Museum Collection”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude transform landscapes by wrapping entire buildings and natural sites such as islands in fabric. In addition to a presentation of ten works by this pair, this exhibition features...More »
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New Year’s Sketches
Japanese traditionally celebrate the New Year and other seasonal festivals by decorating their homes with auspicious symbols as talismans of good fortune. In this exhibition, the Kankai Pavilion displays...More »
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Masterpieces from the Hara Rokuro Collection
“Celadon vase with long neck on globular body,” a designated National Treasure and one of the collection’s most representative works, will be on display in both part I and II of the exhibition. As a masterpiece...More »
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Someone Like You- Selections From the Hara Museum Collection
In portraits, whether painting or photography, the artist must depict the subject’s unique expression and physical attributes while also striving to reflect the society and spirit of the age. Once used...More »
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“Pop ! Pop !! Pop !!! from the Hara Museum Collection”
First sprouting in 1950’s Britain and coming to blossom in 1960’s America, “Pop Art”, as its name suggests proved to be popular movement which took the world by storm. With the imagery of everyday goods,...More »
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Flowers, Birds and Animals-Selections from the Hara Rokuro Collection
Introducing select works from the Hara Rokuro Collection with ink paintings of the Kanno school which once decorated the Nikko-in in Mi'idera temple, the richly colored panels of the Chinese painter Shen...More »
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Spinning the Word: Sophie Calle and Miranda July from the Museum Collection
Sophie Calle (b. 1953, France) is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been shown at major art museums around the world. She represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and created a special...More »
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Elegant Pastimes - Selections from the Hara Rokuro Collection
Featured in this exhibition are selections of calligraphy and painting from the Hara Rokuro Collection that embody bunga, the quality of refinement and elegance found in classical poetry and literature....More »
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Hara Museum Collection Exhibition
Showcases newly acquired works by Lee Ufan, large-scale installations by Yayoi Kusama, paintings by Yoshitomo Nara and other pieces from the museum collection that convey the joy of life.More »
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"Selections from the Hara Rokuro Collection: Celadon vase with long neck on globular body (National Treasure) and Ink Paintings" Exhibition
The celadon vase with long neck on globular body exhibits a symmetrical beauty, with its pale blue glaze, smooth surface and soft roundness in perfect harmony. It is thought to be the most exquisite of...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum Collection: Materials and Motifs—The Things They Tell Us"
Needless to say, we in modern society are surrounded daily by countless things. These are things made by us and things that existed way before. We live our lives using, looking at and reacting to these...More »
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"The Beauty of Ink Painting: Works from the Rokuro Hara collection" Exhibition
The chiaroscuro produced by sumi ink in an ink painting gives it a depth of a different character from the colors in an oil painting. With the ink, we have richly expressive lines and bleed effects and...More »
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"Towards the Light" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases a selection of works from the museum collection that convey the joy of living and human fortitude. [Image: Tadanori Yokoo, "DNF" (2001)]More »
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"The Shape of Time" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases a range of diverse works whose motifs are inspired by the Japanese seasons, as well as natural forms and colors that evolve and shift along with the time of year. Highlights include...More »
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"Beautiful Visages – Featuring the Important Cultural Property 'Female passing through a reed portiere'" Exhibition
This exhibit marks the first public display of the Important Cultural Property "Female passing through a reed portiere" since restoration work on it was completed. As a predecessor to the many paintings...More »
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"Hara Museum Collection: Body and Soul" Exhibition
The collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (located in Shinagawa, Tokyo) consists of a wide variety of some 1000 artworks dating from the 1950s from all over the world. This exhibition showcases...More »
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"Fighting" Exhibition
On display at the Kankai Pavilion are works from the Rokuro Hara collection that convey a sense of ferocity, struggle and fighting spirit, including screen paintings, implements and utensils used for refined...More »
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"The World of Color: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
The world in which we live is bursting with natural and man-made colors. In our daily lives, colors assume representative and symbolic meanings. They include such globally understood colors such as the...More »
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"Rokuro Hara Collection - Spring Masterpieces" Exhibition
On display are masterpieces of both Western and Eastern painting and calligraphy from the Rokuro Hara Collection.More »
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"Cosmos - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
This group exhibition features a variety of works that examine the notion of the cosmos as the source of human knowledge, emotion and meaning in works by Shigeo Toya, Tabaimo, Jonathan Borofsky, Hiroshi...More »
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"The Shape of Good Fortune" Exhibition
This exhibition ushers in the New Year with a selection of works that feature auspicious motifs such as cranes, turtles, pine trees, bamboo, plum, peonies and more. [Image: Tetsuzan Mori, "Folding Screen...More »
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"Cheer Up! From the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
On display at this exhibition are works that possess the strange power to revive and cheer our spirits. As Jonathan Borofsky claims, "art is for the spirit".More »
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"Celadon Vases from the Hara Rokuro Collection" Exhibition
On display are celadon vases that have been designated national treasures from the Hara Rokuro collection, in addition to a selection of modern paintings by masters such as Kano Eitoku and Maruyama Oukyo....More »
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Hara Museum Collection Exhibition
Showcases new acquisitions including installations by Jim Lambie and Miranda July, as well as paintings and sculptures by several contemporary artists.More »
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"What's Interesting About Japanese Contemporary Art?" Exhibition
A selection of works (mostly painting and photography) from the collection by leading Japanese artists ranging from Shusaku Arakawa, Tetsumi Kudo, Lee Ufan, who expanded notions of art in the 1960 and...More »
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"Seasonal Delights" Exhibition
Japan's four seasons exhibit a wealth of difference in their natural phenomena, which usher in the approaching spring, summer, fall or winter. The keen sensibilities that are alive to the shifting seasons...More »
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"Animals on Parade" Exhibition
Animals have been a popular artistic motif through the ages. They appear in many kinds of paintings, in religious or mythical settings, as livestock or as pets. In the paintings displayed in this exhibit...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
This will be the first Collection Exhibition since last spring to occupy the entire museum. 28 paintings, sculptures, photographs and video works will be on display, selected from the museum’s collection...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations selected from around 1000 works in the museum's permanent collection will be featured. Among the works on display are Mirror Room (Pumpkin) (1991) by...More »
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"Dynamic Beauty" Exhibition
These dynamic paintings from the Hara Rokuro Collection show animals and humans in the midst of a variety of actions. People in a frenzy at a sumo match, an unruly horse and a youth's attempt to restrain...More »
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"The Many Faces of Bird-and-Flower Paintings" Exhibition
Plants, birds, insects, etc., constitute the subject matter of bird-and-flower painting, one of the major genres of traditional Chinese painting. Established around the end of the Tang dynasty, bird-and-flower...More »
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"Being Seeing Feeling - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection" Exhibition
Paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations selected from among the more than 1,000 works in the museum's permanent collection will be featured in this summer show, replacing a part of the works...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Collection: A Look at Media Art
Media is now an integral part of modern life, as it is in the world of art. More and more works of art areincorporating media-based technologies, with video and computer being the most representative....More »
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"8th Memories of Green Bokujo Art Contest" Exhibition
Hara Museum Arc presents the Memories of Green Bokujo Art Contest, organized by the Ikaho Green Bokujo. The Green Bokujo is a recreational ranch that seeks to familiarize visitors with animals and nature...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
This exhibition puts the spotlight on select works from the permanent collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, which boasts a wide spectrum of the best contemporary art from Japan and around...More »
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"A Kalaidascope of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
As suggested by its title, this exhibition presents a wide spectrum of contemporary art, consisting of selections from the permanent collection of the Hara Museum. As such, it provides an excellent introduction...More »
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"Creation and the Creative Mind: Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection" Exhibition
What comes to your mind when you hear the words “theme” or “material”? At the Hara Museum, viewers may see works by a variety of artists who are active today, works that encompass a wide spectrum of backgrounds...More »
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"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Hara Museum ARC was opened in 1988 as an annex to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. While the museum in Tokyo is known for its unique architecture in which the museum’s permanent installations...More »
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End of Year/Beginning of Year Program
Every year, in Gallery C Hara Museum Arc holds an exhibition of paintings by elementary school students who have visited farms and expressed their memories of the visit in their paintings. In Gallery...More »
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"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Hara Museum Arc has regularly hosted exhibitions featuring carefully selected works from the 850 works in the Hara Museum collection. This time, the museum will be showcasing works by Japanese artists,...More »
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"Let's go to the Museum! - Enjoying Modern Art with Dick Bruna"
Dick Bruna (born in 1927, Utrecht, Netherlands) is one of the Netherlands' most renowned graphic designers and the creator of Miffy the rabbit. This exhibition uses Bruna's picture book "Miffy at the Gallery"...More »
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Selection from the Museum's Permanent Collection
The exhibition will be showcasing a special selection of works from the more than 850 pieces that currently make up the museum's permanent collection, with a focus on the most recent acquisitions. The...More »
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Permanent Collection Exhibition - Galleries A and B
The collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa, Tokyo) comprises about 850 works by artists from around the world. Featured in Gallery A are works by interior designer Shiro Kuramata,...More »
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Memories of Green Bokujo Contest - Gallery C
Works by elementary school children on the theme of the memories of Green Bokujo (ranch) are on display. This year marks the 6th year since the start of the contest. Scheduled to be displayed are 360 accepted...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
On display are works selected from the museum's permanent collection which currently consists of about 850 works. The exhibition is divided into three themes in three separate galleries. Being our contemporaries,...More »
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Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection + Elementary School Student Art Contest
This exhibition consists of three parts: In Gallery C, drawings by elementary school children on the theme of "Memories of Green Bokujo" will be on display. The participating students will be drawn...More »
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Exquisite Pain - Sophie Calle
Hara Museum ARC is presenting an exhibition entitled "ART & LIFE" which features Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle and other works from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection. Artists throughout the...More »