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100 years of art in the Japanese archipelago—In the 100th year since the Great Kanto Earthquake and the birth of Hachiko   The current statue of Hachiko outside Shibuya Station, Tokyo.   On September 16, I attended “Kazushi Ooura: Mt.View More >

Heat Source and Body Heat: “Art After Human” MOCAF   MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2023, Tomioka, Fukushima. All photos (except where otherwise noted): courtesy MOCAF.   On March 13, the wearing of masks to prevent theView More >

“Takehisa Kosugi 2022” and Kiyoshi Izumi’s SOMA     Scene from “Takehisa Kosugi 2022” (Hall Egg Farm, Saitama, October 15, 2022). GC (left) and Kiyoshi Izumi (right) performing Takehisa Kosugi’s South, e.v. (1999). Photo: Kiyotoshi Takashima, courtesy HEAR.   TakehisaView More >

The “failure’ of shosoku – Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver   View of the Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver performance Failure due to backroom deal of “BODY” held between 16:00 and 16:30 on Friday, November 13, 2022, at the former Daiichi Bank Yokohama Branch.View More >

“Smallness” and “largeness” – On Tatsuo Kawaguchi’s “relations”   Installation view of “Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Relation” at Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, 2022.　©︎Tatsuo Kawaguchi, courtesy Shigeru Yokota Gallery.   I’ve recently had the opportunity to view in succession a number of oldView More >

Back to ‘The Art of Ground Zero’ – War, Plague, Nuclear Energy   MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2022, Tomioka, Futaba, Fukushima. Photo courtesy: MOCAF.   On March 11 this year, eleven years after the Tohoku earthquakeView More >

Minoru Onoda: The pulse of “Theory of Propagation Painting” a half-century later   Minoru Onoda – Work 61-11 (1961), 91.4 x 133.1 x 7.4cm, collection Himeji City Museum of Art. Photo Shigefumi Kato.   On May 15, 2021, eager toView More >