ART/DOMESTIC 2021 MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2021, Tomioka, Fukushima. Photo: Noi Sawaragi. For me, it was as if the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 began the month before,View More >
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Looking back on 2020: Covid-19 and the changing nature of our faces, hands and breath Michelangelo – The Creation of Adam (detail) (c. 1511). What exactly has changed about the way we go about our daily lives asView More >
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“Rei Naito: Mirror Creation” – on a sunny day, on a rainy day Rei Naito – The spirit (2020). Installation view at “Rei Naito: Mirror Creation,” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. All images (except where otherwiseView More >
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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 >