Special Contributors January 14, 2010

What is Japanese Art 5: Tsumura Kosuke (part 1)

A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Tsumura Kosuke (part 1) Text in Japanese.   Tsumura Kosuke   Left: Queen Giddra 2008 Mixed media 38x42x23cm Rght: Borderless Frame 2008 Mixed media 90x11cm   Doragogh 2008 Oi on canvas 61x50cm 
 Courtesy the artist and NANZUKA

Special Contributors January 1, 2010

ART iT contributor best five exhibitions of 2009 II

Mitamura Midori (Tokyo-based artist) ArtBlog 1. Zilvinas Kempinas Kunsthalle Wien (2008.10.31 – 2009.1.25) 2. Verner Panton Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2009.10.17 – 12.27) 3. Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence – Dialogue between Raven and Whale Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Minoru Shimizu December 19, 2009

Critical Fieldwork 4

For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 2: 11:02 Nagasaki If “Japan as it really exists” is absent, where is the reality, the “decisive moment,” of post-war “Japan”? In 1961, 16 years after the moment the atomic bomb

Special Contributors November 27, 2009

Sawaragi Noi: Notes on Art and Current Events 2

On the ‘budget screening’ of the cultural administration The ‘budget screening’ of allocations in the fiscal 2010 budget carried out by the Government Revitalization Unit is being talked about a lot. As indicated by the revival of the so-called supercomputer

Special Contributors November 24, 2009

What is Japanese Art 4: Hasegawa Yuko (part 1)

A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko (part 1) Text in Japanese only.   Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko Olafur Eliasson Quadruple Suncooker Lamp 2006 Private collection, Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Photo Kioku Keizo Hussein Chalayan LED Dress 2007 Hussein Chalayan

Minoru Shimizu November 20, 2009

Critical Fieldwork 3

For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 1: Historical background So long as photographs are in the final analysis pictures, irrespective of how much the photographer tries to put their own interests to one side, an aesthetic judgment

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