Louise Bourgeois inside Articulated Lair (Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York) in 1986. Photo Peter Bellamy, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Louise Bourgeois has died at the age of 98. She was a rare artist who literally lived through theView More >
Special Contributors
Remembering Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010)
Photo Nobuyoshi Araki. Kazuo Ohno was a miraculous Butoh dancer and living embodiment of the idea that existence is the weakened body of non-being. A progenitor of Butoh along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno lived until the age of 103 andView More >
Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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Sawaragi Noi: Notes on Art and Current Events 6
Chaos*Lounge 2010 – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya On April 16, artist and art critic Kurose Yohei gave a lecture in conjunction with Murakami Takashi’s GEISAI University (at the Kakai KikiView More >
Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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What is Japanese Art 10: Conclusion
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Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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Minoru Shimizu | Critical Fieldwork 6
Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Kaneuji Teppei’s Post-Something at Shugo Arts White paintings, cloisonnism, coffee staining, and clippings of brushstrokes and touches of paint… or in other words painterliness; and seals, figures, driftwood, pipes,View More >
Sawaragi Noi: Notes on Art and Current Events 5
Ernest Fenollosa – the unacknowledged source of simulationism? To those interested in the history of Japanese modern art, the name Ernest Fenollosa will be especially familiar. In particular, together with his assistant Okakura Tenshin, he dedicated himself to reviving andView More >
Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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What is Japanese Art 9: Tsubaki Noboru (Part 1)
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Tsubaki Noboru (part 1) Text in Japanese only.