Reviews
Riddle Solving and Division: mé’s “Obviously, No One Can Make Heads Nor Tales”
Artist and author Yohei Kurose reviews a puzzling exhibition at Chiba City Museum of Art last autumn.
Online Confidential: An International Art Festival Moves to the Web
Watch video art from galleries around the world through April 19.
Sakura, Sakura, Sakura 2020 – Flower Viewing at the Museum!
The Yamatane Museum of Art opened a special exhibition of its cherry blossom paintings.
Fever Room
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dazzling and disorientating exploration of when dreams and reality collide
The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project
Considering the social and ecological impact of the Demilitarized Zone from a creative perspective
Blending Media and Artistic Expression
The 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival
What is “Outsider” Art in Japan?
Seventy-two artists from across the country debut over 2,000 works at Gallery AaMo
Memories of the Future
The master of futurism makes his long-awaited return
Le Corbusier and the Age of Purism
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo revisits the art and architecture of the French Modernist who built it.
“Impossible” Architecture
Structures that might have been
Toeko Tatsuno On Paper
How an abstract painter used printmaking to follow and break with the artistic trends of her times
New Material × Old Material
Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s architectural projects with the New Material Research Laboratory
Things So Faint But Real –– Contemporary Japanese Photography
TOP Museum spotlights five rising photographers.
Higashiyama Kaii Retrospective 1908-1999
68 paintings and 45 sketches make up this tribute to one of Japan’s best-loved landscape painters.
MOT Satellite Fall 2018
The Kiyosumi-Shirakawa neighbourhood opens itself up to creative events while the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo is closed.
I Know Something About Love, Asian Contemporary Photography
Social, cultural, and interpersonal issues seen through six lenses.
I Want You to Look at My Prospects for the Future – Plants and I
The latest show at The Yayoi Kusama Museum explores her explores her botanical roots.
Audio Architecture
An interactive show at 21_21 Design Sight rocks the foundations of space and sound.
Structural Issues
Revisiting the Anarchitecture of Gordon Matta-Clark at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Monet’s Legacy
Yokohama Museum of Art presents works by the Impressionist master and contemporary artists inspired by him.
Mirthful Medleys
Bertrand Lavier at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
Summer Night Museum is Back!
Open late through August: Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Troublemakers
Fifteen disobedient artists in “Rebel Without a Cause” at Watari-um.
Mono-ha in Metal
Kishio Suga’s “Released Existence on Edges”
Inanimate Performance: A Mirror and Buttons—Connecting Two Worlds
Momoyo Iijima’s art deals with the memory objects possess internally.
Excavating Concealed Truth
Sachiko Kazama’s “Dyslympia 2680”
Yoshihiko Ueda “68th Street: Memories of Light”
Gallery 916 is gone, but you can still see Director Yoshihiko Ueda’s latest works in a new photo book.
Peekaboo!
The startling encounters of Tomoo Gokita
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation
Impressive but lacking in contextual depth, Mori Art Museum’s tribute to Japanese architecture collapses under its own weight.
Full Cycle: Kodue Hibino’s “60”
Revolutions in art and life by Japan’s most imaginative costume designer
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