MAKOTO AIDA

THE ANTI-SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTIST By Andrew Maerkle -- "There's a secret smoking room behind the video installation of me singing karaoke as Joseph Beuys, Artistic Dandy (2018), so I could hear the song as I smoked. I mean, probably no serious artist anywhere else in the world would make a work like that. But the work is not an arrogant critique of the socially-engaged artists epitomized by Beuys. It's more an expression of my doubt that they would ever let me join their club."

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2018/8/3 Interviews

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A mountain-like inquiry into “restoration”: Yamagata Biennale 2018 (Part 1): Yamagata Biennale 2018 is the third edition of the art festival that celebrates “art in the mountains.” This year I attended for the first time. As usual...View More >

2018年9月30日 Noi Sawaragi

LAWRENCE WEINER

MEANING RESTS WITHIN By Andrew Maerkle -- “As far as translations go, I mean, gee whiz, it’s like a reproduction. There are lousy reproductions of things and there are decent reproductions – but it’s still a reproduction of the same thing.”View More >

2018/5/28 Interviews

NICOLAS BOURRIAUD

BETWEEN PRACTICE AND THEORY By Futoshi Hoshino -- "I’ve been writing for years, actually, but I like the idea of writing something that would be the perfect posthumous book."View More >

2018/3/18 Interviews

16TH TAISHIN ARTS AWARDS ANNOUNCED

One of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors in the fields of art and culture, the 16th annual Taishin Arts Awards were announced at a ceremony held in Taipei on Jun 2. Established by the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, the Taishin Arts Awards honor outstanding works presented in Taiwan over the preceding year in the visual and performing arts. View More >

2018/6/15 News

WENDELIEN VAN OLDENBORGH: PT I

STARING WITH EQUALITY By Andrew Maerkle -- "As you say, we need to go deeper into the symbolic sphere as well. There is a phenomenon of very strong and open anti-black racism emerging in the Netherlands now, on top of which there are also people who deny that there is any racism at all, so we are really fighting over the Dutch imaginary, and ideas about what it means to be Dutch."View More >

2018/2/20 Interviews

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA (RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE): PT I

WITHIN ME LATITUDE WIDENS By Andrew Maerkle -- "The anxiety about global terrorism goes as far back as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (1907), which is based on real events of the late 19th century. What is the terrorist in that book trying to do? He’s trying to blow up Greenwich Mean Time. He is actually attempting to blow up global time."View More >

2018/1/17 Interviews

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SHOP@CAFE JONJON GREEN by Youta Matsuoka: Fragment of Mural

November 9 (Friday), 2018 – January 14 (Monday / national holiday), 2019 10:00 am – 4:15 pm Venue: Cafe d’Art at Hara Museum ARC SHOP@CAFE is a continuing series of small exhibits that showcase popular and trendy goods under theView More >

November 9 (Friday), 2018 – January 14 (Monday / national holiday), 2019 10:00 am – 4:15 pm Venue: Cafe d’Art at Hara Museum ARC SHOP@CAFE is a continuing series of small exhibits that showcase popular and trendy goods under theView More >

Hara Museum／ARC
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TAIJI MATSUE　gazetteer

Taiji Matsue (b. 1963) made his debut as a photographer after graduating from the geography department at the University of Tokyo. Strongly fixated on compositions without horizon lines and two-dimensionality, Matsue has captured images throughout the world with a consistentView More >

Taiji Matsue (b. 1963) made his debut as a photographer after graduating from the geography department at the University of Tokyo. Strongly fixated on compositions without horizon lines and two-dimensionality, Matsue has captured images throughout the world with a consistentView More >

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Leiko Ikemura Our Planet – Earth & Stars

Art Museum Exhibition Page: http://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2018/Ikemura2019/ Leiko Ikemura Our Planet – Earth & Stars Overview This large-scale solo exhibition focuses on the work of Leiko Ikemura, internationally acclaimed artist who has been based in Europe for many years. After moving toView More >

Art Museum Exhibition Page: http://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2018/Ikemura2019/ Leiko Ikemura Our Planet – Earth & Stars Overview This large-scale solo exhibition focuses on the work of Leiko Ikemura, internationally acclaimed artist who has been based in Europe for many years. After moving toView More >

The National Art Center, Tokyo
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The National Art Center, Tokyo

The National Art Center, Tokyo is the national government’s fifth art institution to be organized under the umbrella of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art. The five other art institutions include The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;View More >

The National Art Center, Tokyo is the national government’s fifth art institution to be organized under the umbrella of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art. The five other art institutions include The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;View More >

The National Art Center, Tokyo

EXHIBITION：Tatsuo Majima “Dance of the Day”

Tatsuo Majima「Dance of the Day」 2018.10.13-11.10 TARO NASU http://www.taronasugallery.com/en/exhibition/current/ Opening hours：10:00-18:00 Closed on：Sunday, Monday, and Public Holiday Reception for the artist：10/13(Sat) 18:00〜20:00 TARO NASU is pleased to announce Tatsuo Majima’ s solo exhibition, entitled “Dance of the day”.   TatsuoView More >

Tatsuo Majima「Dance of the Day」 2018.10.13-11.10 TARO NASU http://www.taronasugallery.com/en/exhibition/current/ Opening hours：10:00-18:00 Closed on：Sunday, Monday, and Public Holiday Reception for the artist：10/13(Sat) 18:00〜20:00 TARO NASU is pleased to announce Tatsuo Majima’ s solo exhibition, entitled “Dance of the day”.   TatsuoView More >

TARO NASU
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Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar   Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, Mr. Alfredo Jaar (Born 1956 in Chile.)  About the Hiroshima Art PrizeView More >

Alfredo Jaar   Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, Mr. Alfredo Jaar (Born 1956 in Chile.)  About the Hiroshima Art PrizeView More >

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