Cutie and the Boxer Post-Screening Talk with Ushio Shinohara @ Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
*Reservation closed for this event.
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo) will present a special screening of Cutie and the Boxer, a documentary about the love and struggles during four decades of marriage between New York-based contemporary artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, followed by a post-screening talk by the two artists (moderated by Yuko Ikegami). To mark this screening, Ushio Shinohara’s Motorcycle Mama (1980) will be on display at Hara Museum ARC (Shibukawa, Gunma) where the artist held a solo exhibition in 1992.
Cutie and the Boxer Post-Screening Talk with Ushio Shinohara @ Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ( Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo )
Date and Time: December 14 (Saturday), 2013 from 17:30
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Zazie Films
Place: The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (door opens at 17:00)
Fee: General 1,800 yen / Student 1,500 yen / Hara Museum member (and up to two guests) 1,000 yen
Starting date for bookings (on a first-come, first-served basis): Thursday, November 21 (from 11:00 am)
* Booking requests should be sent to the following email address: event@haramuseum.or.jp. On the subject line, please indicate “Cutie and the Boxer,” and state in the body of the email your name, the number of people in your party and contact telephone number. The limit is three tickets per person. Payment for tickets should be made on the day of the screening. A confirmation email with your ticket numbers will be sent to you. Please refrain from making reservations that have the possibility of being cancelled. Ticket holders will be able to view the exhibition Yasumasa Morimura – Rembrandt Room Revisited before the screening (11:00 to 17:20).
Directions: 5 minutes by taxi or 15 minutes on foot from JR Shinagawa Station (Takanawa exit); or from the same station take the No.96 bus, get off at the first stop (Gotenyama), and walk 3 minutes / or 8 minutes on foot from Kitashinagawa Station on the Keikyu Kyuko Line.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: 4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001 /http://www.haramuseum.or.jp
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Exhibition of Ushio Shinohara’s Motorcycle Mama Commemorating Cutie and the Boxer @ Hara Museum ARC (Shibukawa, Gunma)
Period : Friday, November 22, 2013 – Sunday, January 5, 2014
Hara Museum ARC, Kanai 2855-1, Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture
Tel: 0279-24-6585 /Website: http://www.haramuseum.or.jp
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Cutie and the Boxer
Director: Zachary Heinzerling / Cast: Ushio Shinohara and Noriko Shinohara
Country of origin: U.S.A. / Color / Running time: 82 minutes / Vista Size / Original title : CUTIE AND THE BOXER ⓒ 2013 EX LION TAMER, INC. All rights reserved / Courtesy of King Records, Parco / Distributed by: Zazie Films, Parco / Winner of the Director’s Prize in Documentary category at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival / Opens at Cinema Rise and other theaters throughout Japan on December 21 (Saturday) / http://www.cutieandboxer.com