Evading Perspective – Thoughts inspired by “What If AI Composed for Mr. S?” Reference material: Copy of an instruction sheet given to Mr. N by Mr. S (2014), photocopy on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm. From the Artificial IntelligenceView More >
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Inosuke Hazama traveled to Europe four times and studied under Matisse, was an assistant professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, and served as president of the Japan Art Association. However, in the later half of his life he devoted himself to making Ko-Kutani ware in Ishikawa Prefecture. Sawaragi visited the Inosuke Hazama Art Museum to look into this change and Inosuke’s enduring pursuit of modern painting.
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Jeff Koons’s Rabbit – Selling Air Scene from the Christie’s New York Post-War and Contemporary Art auction held on May 15, 2019. © Christie’s Images Limited 2019. This time – the first time in quite a while –View More >
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Bodies and the heavens, nearing and retreating: The planetary world of Leiko Ikemura Installation view of the “Cosmicscape” section of “Leiko Ikemura: Our Planet – Earth & Stars” at The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019. All photos Shigeo Muto,View More >
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Criticism and Assessment: Concerning Art Concerning Disability Installation view, “Meguru a–to wo meguru” at Kyoto-ba, Kyoto, 2019. Photo Atsushi Ueyama. Over the past few years, I’ve often been asked to comment on the relationship between disability and art.View More >
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Escape plan from repetitive theatrics: “SPACE PLAN: Avant-Garde Art Collective in Tottori 1968-1977” Installation view of Space Plan’s second exhibition, Tottori sand dunes, 1969. Because last year, 2018, marked fifty years since 1968, there was a succession ofView More >
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Bridges and ladders: The forgotten Kanogawa Typhoon Floating debris collecting at the Chitose Bridge, photographed by Shunji Ishii in 1958. Collection Kanogawa Resource Center; courtesy Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Numazu Office of River and National Highway. View More >
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A mountain-like inquiry into “restoration”: Yamagata Biennale 2018 (Part 2) Works by Genkichi Takahashi featured in “Contemporary Yamagata Thought” (a special exhibit at Yamagata Biennale 2018: “100 Stories Like a Mountain”). From left to right: Tachiyagawa river v. rock face,View More >
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A mountain-like inquiry into “restoration”: Yamagata Biennale 2018 (Part 1) Hiroaki Ido – Haibutsu kishaku (engaging in restoration) (2018), installation view at “Contemporary Yamagata Thought,” (a special exhibit at Yamagata Biennale 2018: “100 Stories Like a Mountain.” All photos:View More >
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Crossroads of the Lives of Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Toshi Shimizu (Part 2) Yasuo Kuniyoshi – Festivities (1947), oil on canvas, 100.5 x 176.5 cm, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art. The most enigmatic-looking of Kuniyoshi’s works are those heView More >