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Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice
Staged by the Mori Art Museum triennially since 2004, “Roppongi Crossing” is a series designed to offer a comprehensive survey of the Japanese contemporary art scene. For the 5th edition, through the different...More »
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Motoyuki Daifu “A Quiet Day When Nothing Happens”
Motoyuki Daifu reconstructs 26 select photographs from his oeuvre as large scale inkjet prints. Everyday images of family and home, scenes of the dinner table, the surrounding residential streets and people...More »
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Sion Sono “The Whispering Star”
- at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
- Ends in 24 days
The scenery of a decaying city we faced as a result of 3.11, our tiny hope crushed by someone. “The Whispering Star” is a film where you can only talk in whispers, though it somewhat coincides with the...More »
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The Kawabata Yasunari Collection: His Passion for Fine Arts
Yasunari Kawabata was a leading Japanese author known for his classics such as The Dancing Girl of Izu and Yukiguni. His collection – including earthen figures of the Jomon Period (around 12,000 to 300...More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2016
TDC Exhibition 2016 presents the results of the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2016, an annual international design competition sponsored by the Tokyo Type Directors Club. The Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2016 drew...More »
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Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Since ancient times, Afghanistan has thrived as a “crossroads of civilizations” in Central Asia, developing a distinctive culture at the center of the Silk Road. This exhibition comprised of 231 ancient...More »
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Our Permanent Collection!
For the first time since its 35 Year Anniversary Celebrations in 2014, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art utilizes all of its exhibition spaces to present its rich and diverse collection which in total...More »
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Shinro Ohtake “Time Memory”
Shinro Ohtake presents his latest work on the “Time Memory” series, which he has been developing since 2011, accompanied by the release of two new catalogues. [Related Event] Shinro Ohtake “SO x...More »
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Toile de Jouy, Printed Textiles from France
Jouy-en-Josas is a town in the southwest suburbs of Paris near Versailles. The European chintz crafted at the factories in this area is called “Toile de Jouy,” widely known as traditional fabrics from...More »
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Yamatane Museum of Art Nihonga Award Seed 2016 - Meet the Future of Nihonga
Yamatane Museum of Art was first opened in 1966 and went on to establish the Yamatane Museum of Art Award for Nihonga in 1971, running every year up until 1997. To celebrate the 50 year anniversary of...More »
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Trans/Real - The Possibilities of Immaterial Art vol.2 Tatsuo Gocho
Tatsuo Gocho attempts to reveal our processes of perception and judgement through his “Transparent/Space” and the air pocket/hole which lies between on layer and another, as the space where the object...More »
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Hiroshi Miyamoto “Self Community - Family(box archive)”
Hiroshi Miyamoto brings together three cds of family conversation with surveys of 9 families and a 129 page photography book reflecting on the contemporary state of the family from a personal perspective....More »
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Tatsumi Orimoto “Art x Life”
The performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto, a resident of Kawasaki, has been at the forefront of contemporary art for more than 40 years. His international presence includes a show at the Venice Biennale....More »
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Trees in French Landscape Paintings, 1850 to 1920 – From Corot to Monet, Pissarro and Matisse
- at Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
- in the Shinjuku area
- Ends in 10 days
With a focus on Impressionist paintings, this exhibition explores the evolution of French modern landscape paintings, using trees as the motif. This exhibition traces the roles trees have played in the...More »
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Kigi in Clematis no Oka
The creative unit Kigi was established in 2012 by Ryosuke Uehara and Yoshie Watanabe, working in the field of art direction and product design as well as producing original art works. Combining the conceptual...More »
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Naohiro Ukawa + Dommune University of the Arts “The 100 Japanese Contemporary Artists / Season 4”
Dommune, organized and directed by Naohiro Ukawa, is an online streaming platform for broadcasting talk shows and live performances from the leading edge of culture to the world. Since its inauguration...More »
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi Exhibition
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) was a painter, photographer, and printmaker active in America during the turbulent first half of the 20th century. His work is currently back in the limelight, with a retrospective...More »
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Seiichi Motohashi “Sense of Place”
Documentary artist Motohashi Seiichi (1940–) has used the two modes of photography and film to document the lives of ordinary people since the 1960s. His work has received acclaim both on a national and...More »
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Cinderella in America: Works From the Masanao Kawata Collection
The story of Cinderella has many variations throughout the world. Versions by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm spread throughout Europe and later to America, where Cinderella came to embody the...More »
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Philippe Weisbecker “En Noir et Blanc et En Couleur”
Following “Manufacturing” held in 2013, Phillipe Weisbecker presents his third exhibition at Claska, featuring a selection of his latest works. [Related Event] -Talk event by Phillipe Weisbecker and...More »
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Emi Fukuyama ”I Had Seen The Shore“
We are pleased to announce Emi Fukuyama’s solo show at POETIC SCAPE “I Had Seen the Shore” which is her 2nd solo exhibition at POETIC SCAPE since “A Trip to Europe” in 2012. More »
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Haruki Murakami and Illustrators Exhibition
Japan’s leading novelist Haruki Murakami has worked with a range of illustrators in the production of his novels, essays and picture books. This exhibition follows the relation between text and image through...More »
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The Dignity of Life – Taro Okamoto’s Jomon
Experience the artwork of Taro Okamoto together with pottery from Japan’s ancient Jomon period (14,000–300 BC) in the first exhibition of Jomon artifacts at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. Curated by...More »
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Philippe Weisbecker “Hand Tools”
Presenting new illustrations by the Kyoto-based artist Philippe Weisbecker, whose book of drawings of Japanese carpentry tools “Hand Tools” was recently published by 888 Books. More »
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The Works of Keiko Minami and Ichi Ogawa
- at Musee Hamaguchi Yozo / Yamasa Collection
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi area
- Ends in 52 days
Keiko Minami’s copperplate prints combine nostalgia with tinges of solitude. Trees stand in rows birds and young girls linger about, the sky opens up endlessly. The people in these works neither beckon...More »
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Julia Lohmann + Gero Grundmann “Making the Known New”
- at Kyoto Institute of Technology - Kyoto Design Lab Tokyo Gallery
- in the Chiyoda area
- Ends in 3 days
An exhibition of new work from the first participants in Kyoto Design Lab’s Designer in Residence, Julia Lohmann and Gero Grundmann. Lohmann utilized the latest technology in the D-lab to work with seaweed...More »
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Open Space 2016 Media Conscious
“Open Space 2016: Media Conscious” is an exhibition introducing works of media art and other forms of artistic expression born out of today’s media environments, to a broad audience. Literally a beginner’s...More »
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Good Ideas for Good
Today advertising is not only directed at promoting products and services, but is also increasingly focused upon social issues and aims to bring out the good in us, as witnessed in this exhibition.More »
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200 Years of Gyokusendo
Presenting 20 new works by Gyokusendo, a metal craft company in Niigata Prefecture celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2016.More »
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Leaves Fumio Tachibana
Fumio Tachibana is known for his prints, collages, and installations of scrap paper. It has been 20 years since his debut with “Made in U.S.A.” Works from this and other collections, as well as an artist...More »
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Japanese Quilts x Hyaku Kaidan 2016
The culture of quilting was born in Europe and developed further in America, needle and thread drawing through the fabrics of everyday life to bring warmth from, more often than not, female hands. The...More »
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Noriyoshi Konno, the Kazuhiro Motomura Collection, and Robert Frank
- at Ricoh Imaging Square Ginza 8F, A.W.P Gallery zone
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 10 days
An exhibition of some thirty works by photographer Noriyoshi Konno, with a focus on his gelatin-silver prints, plus recent color images and previously unreleased works. Konno shared artistic ideas with...More »
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30th Anniversary Exhibition “Exquisite Views of East and West”
For its 30th anniversary, the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art presents works of Eastern and Western art portraying sublime and beautiful landscapes by a range of traditional and contemporary artists...More »
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Ichinosuke Shunputei + Akira Yamaguchi “Rakugo: An Amusing Introduction”
An exhibition celebrating the release of “Ichinosuke Shunputei’s Amusing Rakugo,” a book illustrated by Akira Yamaguchi and published by Shogakukan. [Related Event] Rakugo Event: Ichinosuke Shunputei’s...More »
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Modern Beauty – Art and Fashion in France
This exhibition commemorating the 20th anniversary of The Pola Art Foundation spotlights “feminine beauty,” a special focus of the museum’s collection. The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on...More »
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The Beauty of Traditional Japanese Porcelain and Elegant Edo Porcelain: The World of Ko-imari
The first porcelain in Japan was produced in Arita Town in the mountains of Hizen (Saga Prefecture today) at the beginning of the Edo period (1603–1868). Hizen porcelain was developed into the three major...More »
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Animation Cabin Vol. 3 “Nonsense for Kids?!”
Children find special meaning in “non-sense,” as seen in these animated works. More »
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Buffet and the 1940’s-50’s - Paintings Confronting Absurdity
In the late 1940s Bernard Buffet debuted his young talent in the galleries of Paris, unveiling paintings filled with isolation and emptiness, filled with a feeling of repression, underscored by the aggressive...More »
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Toshiya Motai “Printworks Portfolio”
“The Place of Appearance” is, for the artist, a place where a picture appears, where there is a slight overlay of the real world (Real) and another world (Idea). Toshiya Motai has previously attempted...More »
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Heart-Moving Realist Paintings – Living Artists in Japan
A single realist painting can take two to three months to complete. What does the viewer feel upon encountering these finished products, the culmination of the artist’s long creative process and period...More »
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Jiro Takamatsu: Visiting an Artist’s Studio
- at Yumiko Chiba Associates | Viewing Room Shinjuku
- in the Shinjuku area
- Starts Today, Ends in 23 days
In May 1974 Jiro Takamatsu appeared on the TV program “Visiting an Artist’s Studio”, introducing a number of his works and his own perspective on art. A number of years ago the tape of this broadcast was...More »
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Talk “Are You Internalizing Censorship in the Name of Self-Restraint?”
Another project coinciding with but separate from this year’s MOT Annual “Loose Lips Save Ships” exhibition centers on interviews in article form. Artists’ Guild members raise questions about “self-restraint”...More »
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“Hello Work “
Whilst the rapid economic development of Japan has come to an end, it appears our working environment and our awareness towards our occupations has not followed this change. Whilst we must work for our...More »
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Kazumi Kurigami “Dedicated — Yasuyuki Shuto”
Always facing her subjects with a passion and human wamrth Kazumi Kurigami here turns her camera towards the ever disciplined body and mind of dancer Yasuyuki Shuto, capturing the depth and strength of...More »
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Fumie Hiratai + Tamihito Yoshikawa + Etsuko Yamagami “Cycle - Wind, Water, Land”
[Related Event] Artist Talk Date: July 3(Sun) 14:00-More »