Museum

Hara Museum (Tokyo) Plum trees in the museum’s courtyard have began to bloom. Spring is slowly approaching! On February 21, there will be a music event at the Hall of the Hara Museum in Tokyo. A live performance by theView More >

A new greeting card which takes as its motif a drawing for the work “Kokoro” by Jean-Michel Othoniel installed last September at Hara Museum ARC (Gunma) is now on sale at The Museum Shops of the Hara Museum in TokyoView More >

Happy New Year! NEWS FROM THE HARA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Tokyo) Hara Museum in Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile until March 28 (Sun.). Yang Fudong, The General’s Smile, 2009 (detail) Incidentally, have youView More >

On view at the Hara Museum in Tokyo is the first solo exhibition in Japan by Yang Fudong, one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists. Exhibition Poster An installation view of The General’s Smile, 2009 (photo by Keizo Kioku) InView More >

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Olafur Eliasson’s “Sunspace for Shibukawa” is on view at ARC since October. It is an observatory/pavilion in which the relative path of the sun moving across the sky canView More >

From the Hara Museum, Tokyo The talk by the Chinese artist Yang Fudong will be held at the Hara Museum (Tokyo) as an event related to the upcoming exhibition, Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile (starting from Saturday, December 19). TheView More >

from the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) December 5 (Sat.), 2009 2:00 – 3:30 pm Lecture: Rauschenberg and the globalization of contemporary art (in Japanese only) Lecturer: Hiroko Ikegami (specially appointed assistant professor, Osaka University Global COE Program) ThisView More >

Today, we would like to talk a little bit more about the new lighting system. In the galleries and corridors, light is supplied from 488 light tubes that protrude from the ceiling, divided and delivered by a system of fiber-opticView More >

From Hara Museum ARC (Gunma) As previously introduced on this web, the museum’s original image cake–which takes artwork as its motif– is served every weekend at Café d’Art (museum café). *Previous article（https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/HaraMuseum_e/gntTYVf5U7N8JpwI019E/） Here are photos of the cakes we servedView More >

from the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) Crosstalk “STOPGAP” (in Japanese only) will be held at the Hara Museum on Saturday, November 21 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. This panel discussion examines the creative culture of America from theView More >

The second performance featuring Umitaro Abe was held on October 28. The event started with a video screening of a duo performance by Abe and Takeo Toyama. Abe performed piano along with images from commercials that he collaborated with, asView More >

In October, there were two image & music events featuring Tatsuhiko Asano and Umitaro Abe. The first performance featuring Tatsuhiko Asano was held on October 7. Asano played guitar along with his animation works and other images. He used severalView More >