Kawai Misaki Homeland 2020 8.29 – 10.3 Take Ninagawa (Tokyo) http://www.takeninagawa.com ART iT Picks https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrec_e/RuM0pK2EWLYcnO3FNqVm/ ART iT Art Partner https://www.art-it.asia/u/TakeNinagawa
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31 August – 6 September (Japan)
Opening this week ©Aki Lumi Aki Lumi: The Garden is Burning 9.1 – 29 Zeit-Foto Salon (Kyobashi) http://www.zeit-foto.com A Museum of Belgian Visionary Art 9.3 – 10.25 Bunkamura The Museum (Shibuya) http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/museum/index.html TOKYO PHOTO 2009 9.4 – 6 [Fair] TOKYOView More >
Kawai Misaki: Homeland 2020
8.29 – 10.3 Take Ninagawa (Tokyo) Charming but tinged with touches of madness, or perhaps hetauma-esque (bad technique / good result) but with sensitivity, or maybe girly with glimpses of macho inclinations (?) …. That inscrutable perspective of the worldView More >
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Matsudai area 2)
7.26 – 9.13 http://www.echigo-tsumari.jp/ Ozawa Tsuyoshi Kamaboko-type Storehouse Project / kamaboko gallery 2003/2009 Participant artists: Nakamura Tetsuya, Yamaguchi Akira, Yamagami Wataru, Shinzo, Watanabe Osamu, Matsuoka Eri, Maseki Aiko Kusama Yayoi Tsumari in Bloom 2003 Works by Koide Naoki at SatoyamaView More >
Kitajima Keizo @ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Kitajima Keizo 1975-1991 : Koza / Tokyo / New York / Eastern Europe / USSR 8.29 – 10.18 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography http://www.syabi.com/details/kitajima.html ART iT Picks Kitajima Keizo 1975-1991
Morimura Yasumasa solo show & talk
© Morimura Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa’s solo show Maburakashi opens today at Epsite in Shinjuku. The title is a word coined by the artist from the Japanese words mabusu (to cover, smear or sprinkle) and mazekoze ni suru (to mix upView More >
+81 international magazine conference and symposium
From left: Azuma Makoto, Nawa Kohei, Ninagawa Mika +81Creatives, an outshoot of the design magazine +81, will bring together art directors and creatives working in Japan and abroad to take part in a three-day powwow. Among the scheduled events areView More >
Seminar: Re-tying the Gordian Knot
The second seminar staged in conjunction with Exposition of Mythology – Electronic Technology currently underway (through 4 October) at the Nam June Paik Art Center. The exhibition poses diverse translations of the enormous effect of Paik’s first solo show ExpositionView More >
Lesportsac releases new ‘Artist In Residence’ bags
(left to right) Paint Splash (out August), Gingham (out September), Numbers (out October) Handbag brand LeSportsac has added to its ‘Artist In Residence’ line of handbags created in collaboration with artists a series by New York-based Japanese artist Matsuyama Tomokazu.View More >
Ai Weiwei: part 2
To me, art and activism are one. Presenting one topical work after another at international shows, designing the ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium for the Beijing Olympics, while on the other hand having his blog shut down by the authorities for hisView More >