The COVID-19 pandemic and “Don’t Follow the Wind” – and then there were only “exhibitions that no-one can see” Current state of the Designated Waste Landfill Disposal Center (former Fukushima Eco-tech Clean Center), Tomioka, Fukushima. All photos: The writer.View More >
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Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (3) Katsumi Sunamori – From the series “Unzen, Nagasaki” (1993-95) All images: © Katsumi Sunamori Photography Office I came to know about Katsumi Sunamori’s photo series concerning the Mount Unzen disasterView More >
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Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (2) From Katsumi Sunamori Kama Tida: Osaka Nishinari (1989). All images: © Katsumi Sunamori Photography Office In my last column, I delved into the question, Who is Katsumi Sunamori? and discoveredView More >
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Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (1) Katsumi Sunamori – From the series “Unzen, Nagasaki” (1993-95). © Katsumi Sunamori Photography Office. On the morning of June 2, 2019, I arrived at Nagasaki Airport and headed south byView More >
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Imagination for recovery – Disaster and restoration Kenichi Tanaka – (left to right)>: Haisen C (1964), oil on canvas; Still life 1 (1975), oil on canvas; Umibe no bochi A (1978), oil on canvas. Installation view at “Art DoctorView More >
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Before “Freedom of Expression?”: 2019 for Shusei Kobayakawa, Kikuji Yamashita, and Nobuyuki Oura Shusei Kobayakawa – Kuni no tate (Shield of the Nation) (1944), color on paper, collection Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine (entrusted to the Nichinancho Art Museum). View More >
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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 >