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Current events
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Sosuke Naito Exhibition
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Damp Plosive Roam
Three artists explore the animate and inanimate, natural and human, and meaningful and meaningless. More »
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Group Show
Including works such as the newest addition to Takuro Kuwata’s Tea bowl series and Noritaka Tatehana’s two-dimensional works, this group show will present the newest as well as most notable works by the...More »
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Junko Igawa Exhibition
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Mami Kosemura + Saori Miyake “E-Motion Graphics”
Taking “painting” as its departure point, these photographs and videos reconsider each other’s mediums. More »
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Osamu Moriya “Praying in Bali”
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ShugoArts Show
The exhibition will feature more than a dozen Polaroid works from Yasumasa Morimura’s Actress Series, in which he disguises as famous film actresses. In addition, the exhibition will showcase selected...More »
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Takashi Tokyo “Sakura Gold 2021”
The artist prints 35mm film photographs of cherry blossoms on washi paper and coats these images in wax. Around ten works are on display. More »
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2020
[Related Events] Vol. 1 Date and Time: 1/19-1/31 (12:00-19:00) Vol. 2 Date and Time: 2/2-2/14 Vol. 3 Date and Time: 2/16-2/28More »
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Daido Moriyama “Orizuru”
This exhibition marks the anniversary of the publication of “Orizuru,” Daido Moriyama’s first photography book featuring nudes. Special merchandise including clothing and tote bags is also available. More »
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Gerard Glanard Exhibition
Black and white prints of musicians playing at Parisian jazz clubs in the 1970s. More »
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Kimiko Akimoto Exhibition
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Mao Kadota “Home”
An exhibition of 20 black & white photographs of the artist’s mentors, teachers, and family. More »
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Miho Kajioka “Do You Open Your Eyes in the Sea?”
This exhibition, the first in Japan for the Miho Kajioka, will feature her silver gelatin prints along with the voices of children in three languages and a scent based on the theme “time”. More »
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Nobuo Iida “Saisei”
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Nomadic Commitment
We are living in an unprecedented age of restricted migration and movement. Nevertheless, the history of humanity is a history of movement. As homo sapiens whose origins began on the content of Africa,...More »
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Sakumi Hagiwara Exhibition
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This Is Now
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein Art Tokyo Platform proudly presents its second group exhibition titled ‘This...More »
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Trialogue: The 20th Century Western Art from the Collections of Yokohama Museum of Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
The Yokohama Museum of Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, and Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design are public museums, each of which represents a specific region of Japan. All three opened during...More »
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Tsubasa Kawaguchi “The Negative ~ Moonʼs Surface”
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Yusaku Yamazaki “Closed Exhibition Part 2”
This exhibition of new texts and drawing by Yusaku Yamazaki can only be viewed from the outside as the gallery doors are locked in this series of “closed” shows. More »
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Yuya Shibata “Reaching For Heaven”
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Emi Nakamura “Sanctuary”
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Hiroyuki Ito “Havana Banana”
Venue: Nikon SalonMore »
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Mitsuo Ishikawa “Construction on the Shin-Tomei Expressway”
Mitsuo Ishikawa spent seven years from 2013 documenting the construction on the Shin-Tomei Expressway from Atsugi to Isehara. These 40 images in black and white capture the daily transformations of the...More »
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Yoshino Tsumura Exhibition
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Halfway Happy Vol. 2 Kosuke Nagata: Eat
Kosuke Nagata explores motifs of eating and mouths in this series.More »
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Charm of Gelation Silver Prints Ⅶ: Portraits of the 20th Century
For the exhibition’s seventh iteration, the gallery will show portraits taken by eight photographers of great figures of the 20th century (Picasso, Andre Breton, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Constantin...More »
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Chikara Komura “Flowers in the Sea II”
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David Felix “Post Tenebras Lux”
David Felix has been showing his photographic works taken with his own pinhole camera. In this exhibition, he will be showing his works taken with a pinhole camera using instant camera film. By moving...More »
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Kenji Tajiri “Mimesis”
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Simon Roberts “The Brexshit Machine”
With days before the official separation of the UK from the EU, there is no more timely occasion to present Simon Roberts’”Brexshit Machine” in the confined space of The Container. Radiating monotonous“Brexit...More »
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Yoko Fukuoka “Here You See Me, And I Am You”
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“Domani: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021
This year’s exhibition—featuring seven promising newcomers with overseas study program experience over the past ten years, plus earlier program participants and now Japanese art scene frontrunners Kengo...More »
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Kiyoshi Sonobe “Hometown”
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of photographer Kiyoshi Sonobe with 30 color images from his 1990 photobook “Furusato” (Hometown) capturing landscapes across Japan. Location:...More »
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Seiji Kumagai Exhibition
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Yusuke Yamatani “Tokyo – Sanjo”
This exhibition for the release of the New Balance R_C4 Capsule Collection features 30 images produced for this show along with an installation inspired by the Joetsu Shinkansen. Yamatani’s work brings...More »
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Takaaki Inada “Portrait in Kazakh”
Portraits of traditional nomadic life by the Altai Kazakh people in central Eurasia. More »
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What We Saw, Did, and Understood
This exhibition looks back on a project by Fujifilm to salvage, clean, and return photographs damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Venue: Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo Mini GalleryMore »
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Iconic Figure
This is the 104th exhibition for Art Gallery M84 and features 20 photographs by 14 renowned photographers including Patrick Demarchelier, the official photographer to the late Princess Diana, known for...More »
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Kikuji Kawada “Endless Map”
Kikuji Kawada’s sixty-year career as a photographer began as a staff photographer for the newly founded weekly magazine Shukan Shincho in 1956. Since then, ambitious works like The Map (1965), a metaphor-riddled...More »
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Lavender Hair
“Lavender Hair” is curated by Lavender Opener Chair / Tomei, an artist-run gallery in Tokyo.More »
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Yasuhide Kuge “Mnemosyne”
Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology and the mother of the Muses. Photographer Yasuhide Kuge met two performers, Norico Sunayama of Dumb Type and Nakao Ikemiya of Nomad-s, and began creating...More »
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100th Birthday of Tal-su Kim Exhibition
*Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature is temporarily closed from Jan. 12 to Mar. 8. Through his work Tal-su Kim (1920-1997) explored what it means to be human from the perspective of a person of Korean...More »
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Running through East Asia: Sports in the Modern Age
Since 2014, the National Museum of Japanese History has engaged in mutual exchange activities and research cooperation with the National Museum of Taiwan History in Tainan City, Taiwan. In 2016 we cosponsored...More »
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Ryo Kameyama “Mexico/Everyday Violence and Death”
For his second exhibition at Studio 35 Minutes, Ryo Kameyama presents photographs of people living under the influence of drug cartel fighting in Mexico. The black and white snapshots evoke a sense of...More »
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The Secret 2021
This charity photography exhibition with 20% of sales going to support Akai Hane volunteer services presents a total of 44 works. The photographer responsible for each work is not revealed until after...More »
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Ten Photography School Selections
An exhibition of work from ten photography schools. Part 1: Feb. 3 (Wed)–Feb. 25 (Thurs) Part 2: Feb. 26 (Fri)–Mar. 18 (Thurs) Location: Canon Open Gallery 2 More »
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Kota Kishi Exhibition Part 2
For a 15-year period from 2005 until 2020, Kota Kishi has photographed the neighborhoods of Kamagasaki in Osaka, San’ya in Tokyo, and Kotobukicho in Yokohama. This two-part exhibition documents the changes...More »
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Luisa Lambri Exhibition
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My Flower
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A Memory of Place - The Power of Recollection
This exhibition showcases works by artists expressing the present and past of various places. More »
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Masaya Chiba Exhibition
Masaya Chiba is a promising young painter and art school professor. He creates his works with human-shaped objects made from materials such as clay or wood, beginning with provisional landscapes he creates...More »
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Introduction to Art Archive XXI Fumihiko Maki and Keio University I: Resonating Architecture
*Due to the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease), an advance reservation system will be in place for this exhibition. Fumihiko Maki (1928- ), who has studied at Keio, Tokyo and Harvard University,...More »
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Decades 2000_2020
This exhibition commemorates the launch of the new photography magazine Decades (No.1 2000_20 Issue) by Akaaka Art Publishing. The magazine was launched by the Japanese photographer, Ai Iwane, and the...More »
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A Happy New World 2021
This exhibition of new and previous works by eight artists seeks out new relationships between the pieces. More »
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Artists Along the Railway Lines: Den-en-toshi Line and Setagaya Line
The Tamagawa Electric Railway (tram), precursor of the present-day Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line and Setagaya Line, was the first rail line to operate in Setagaya, and was affectionately known as“Tamaden,” a...More »
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Ken Domon and Takeshi Fujimori: Photographs of Buddhist Sculptures from Northern Japan
This exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake presents images of Buddhist sculptures from the six Tohoku prefectures taken by prominent photographer Ken Domon and his...More »
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Kihachiro Kawamoto and Tadanari Okamoto, Puppet Animation Filmmakers
Kihachiro Kawamoto (1925-2010) and Tadanari Okamoto (1932-1990) were artists who each left unparalleled achievements in Japanese animated film, particularly in stop-action animation. Both studied under...More »
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Robert Doisneau La Musique Paris
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) is one of France’s most celebrated photographers. He produced many excellent works depicting Paris, and continues to be dearly loved by many around the world. This exhibition...More »
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Ryoji Akiyama Photography Exhibition
This exhibition showcases 30 original prints by photographer Ryoji Akiyama taken during a 2-year period from 1975. More »
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Yozo Hamaguchi + Yuji Hamada Exhibition
- at Musee Hamaguchi Yozo / Yamasa Collection
- in the Kyobashi, Nihonbashi area
- Ends in 38 days
This two-person exhibition features 25 copper prints by Yozo Hamaguchi along with 60 photographs by Yuji Hamada. More »
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Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art hosts this exhibition at Higashiyama Cube, looking back on the art of the Heisei period (1989–2019), with a focus on the collective activities of the artists concerned....More »
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Francis Bacon The Barry Joule Collection of Artworks from Francis Bacon Studio, 7 Reece Mews London SW7 U.K.
*According to the extension of the state of emergency including Kanagawa Prefecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama will be temporarily closed from Tuesday, January 12 to Sunday, March 7, 2021 to prevent...More »
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Taro Okamoto’s Travels
The artist Taro Okamoto traveled all across Japan and around the world, researching cultures and peoples from an ethnological perspective. From 1957 to 1966, he travelled from Tohoku to Okinawa and published...More »
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2020 Press Photography Exhibition
*Open Fridays and Saturdays only until March 7. *Reservations required The year 2020 was rocked by the spread of the COVID-19 virus around the world, which resulted in the postponement of the 2020...More »
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Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi, Tokuko Ushioda, Mari Katayama, Maiko Haruki, Mayumi Hosokura, and Your Perspectives
Shiseido Gallery, which has a long history of introducing female artists, will have a group show by female photographers pursuing creative expression. Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi and reconstruct images...More »
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Chotoku Tanaka “Today Tokyo 1964/2020”
Forty black and white images of Tokyo in 1964, when the last Olympic Games were held here, and in 2020. More »
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2021 A Space Odyssey Monolith: Memory as Virus - Beyond the New Dark Age
Released in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction film dealing with the relationship between humanity and technology, as well as with human evolution. This exhibition uses art to...More »
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Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, which itself suffered damage from the disaster, organized an exhibition entitled...More »
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Views Toward Ainu Culture—Focusing on Photographs from the N.G. Munro Collection
Photographs of Ainu culture taken by the Scottish physician and archeologist N.G. Munro (1863–1942), who conducted research in Hokkaido from 1930. The film “The Kamui Iomande,” edited by Munro, is also...More »
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3rd Anniversary Exhibition: Home/Town
For its third anniversary, Art Museum & Library, Ota features work by the poet Fusanojo Shimizu and the photographers Mari Katayama and Atsushi Yoshie, all of whom have ties to the city of Ota, Gunma....More »
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Ken + Julia Yonetani “That’s Why I Want To Be Saved”
*Reservations required. *Open 10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Blending science and myth, contemporary artists Ken + Julia Yonetani contemplate environmental collapse, climate change, the pandemic,...More »
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Out and About in the City - It Started From Ripples in the Water
- at Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- in the Omotesando, Aoyama area
- Ends in 101 days
This exhibition features the work of the 1995 exhibit at Watar-um ‘Ripples in the Water95’ along with the work of currently active artists. More »
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Joban Line Exhibition
- at Railway History Exhibition Hall, former Shimbashi car park
- in the Ginza, Marunouchi area
- Ends in 122 days
This exhibition commemorates the one-year anniversary of the complete resumption of operations by the Joban Line, which was heavily impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Look back on the rail’s...More »
Permanent events
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Jim O’Connell “Kabukicho”
Jim O’Connell documents Tokyo’s red-light district, making connections with Kabukicho’s working men and women, revelers and passers-by. This exhibition comprises of ten photographs shot in 2006. This...More »
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Permanent Exhibitions
Art Factory Jonanjima is home to three permanent exhibitions: “Kimiyo Mishima Installation Work 1984-2014” Focusing on Mishima’s installations from the 1980s, this display features 13 works in an...More »
Upcoming events
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Ichiko Ageno “Trace – Place of Prayer”
Venue: Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo Space 1More »
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Reiko Hagihara “Heart of Nature”
The 25th edition of this series featuring young photographs presents the work of landscape photographer Reiko Hagihara. Venue: Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo Space 2More »
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South South Tokyo
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Hitoshi Fugo + Katsuyuki Uomoto “At the Same Time”
From 2018 to the spring of 2020, Fugo and Uomoto have worked together on this project where they have taken photos of their surroundings synchronizing when they press the shutter. They have consolidated...More »
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Shin Hamada “Atarimae・no・Kototachie Ⅱ”
*Advance reservations are required. Mr. Hamada, who says that “the act of taking a photograph is a life attitude itself,” does not adhere to any particular motif or technique, but captures the casual...More »
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Yoshikazu Shirakawa “Eternal Japan / The Earth”
This exhibition features two major compilations of the work of Shirakawa Yoshikazu in two series, each exhibited over an approximately month-long period. The first part, Eternal Japan, Series 11, introduces...More »
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The Day We Saw the Same Moon
Atsushi Watanabe is a former “hikikomori” shut-in who has rejoined society. In this era of COVID-19, when many people feel isolated, he began observing and photographing the moon, noting that when you’re...More »
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Born with Flowers— Reconstruction and Art after 3.11
This exhibition looks back on the ten years since the Great East Japan Earthquake with panels by the Iwate Reconstruction Bureau and works reflecting on the disaster by artists with ties to the NPO Iwate...More »
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Maki Ishii “Letters from 3.11/Voices of Sound”
Presenting the work of photojournalist Maki Ishii, who continues to document the conditions and lives of people impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. This exhibition...More »
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Maki Morimoto “My Forest”
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Michiko Sato “Creative Snap”
In abstract paintings based on actual scenes that transform into the unreal, Michiko Sato carves out her unique perspective on the world.More »
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My Armchair
Matisse decided to become an artist when he was 20 years old, recuperating from an illness. For Matisse, art was a therapy. It was never meant to be a radical pollical message or an arcane intellectual...More »
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Takahiko Sakai + Tina Okuhara “Face 2 Face”