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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; C.B. Liddell</title>
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		<title>Kohfukuji temple: under divine protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Butto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national treasure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo University Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people&#8217;s radar, but it is definitely one of the city&#8217;s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by the effort that has been taken to arrange exhibits and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nihonga: without the hand over the eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MOMAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Modern Art Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takeuchi Seiho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At its essential level, art is a battle between the eye and the hand; the first representing sensory input, the second artistic habit and convention. When the hand outweighs the eye, art can become over-stylized, clichéd, and eventually dead. Asian art has been particularly prone to this; with young artists faithfully repeating the themes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the fun side of Surrealism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andre Breton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man Ray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sompo Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surrealism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason for the success of Surrealism in the 1920s and &#8217;30s was its sexual dimension. This element, covered over by a veneer of respectable intellectualism, had a powerful attraction at a time when sexuality was much more circumscribed by social morality than it is today. Although many Surrealist artworks are not sexual, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pushkin&#8217;s masterpieces cannot fail to inspire</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/24/arts/the-pushkins-masterpieces-cannot-fail-to-inspire/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-pushkins-masterpieces-cannot-fail-to-inspire</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Francois Boucher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gauguin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of people who wish that art had simply stopped around 1911 or so. If it had, we would have been spared many of the monstrosities that modern art then proceeded to unleash &#8212; urinals in art galleries, randomly distributed paint, pickled animals, cans of the artist&#8217;s excrement, etc. Of course, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s population of ghouls keeps coming back to haunt us</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/17/arts/japans-population-of-ghouls-keeps-coming-back-to-haunt-us/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japans-population-of-ghouls-keeps-coming-back-to-haunt-us</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GeGeGe no Kitaro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghosts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsui Memorial Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ukiyo-e]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yokai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Caught up in the rush of modernity, it is sometimes easy to forget just what a unique and unusual country Japan is. An exhibition such as &#8220;Yokai: Demons, Folklore Creatures and GeGeGe no Kitaro&#8221; serves to remind us, by peeling back the surface of everyday life and showing us the &#8220;collective subconsciousness&#8221; represented by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;floating world&#8217; that drifted to the West</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/03/arts/the-floating-world-that-drifted-to-the-west/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-floating-world-that-drifted-to-the-west</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[floating world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ukiyoe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The main pleasure of any extensive ukiyo-e (woodblock print) exhibition, like the &#8220;Floating World&#8221; show now on at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, is the evocation of the unique civilization that underlies this particular slab of global modernity. Among the sleek office buildings of the surrounding Marunouchi district and the retro-modernity of the museum building itself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art that bloomed with the Feinbergs</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/27/arts/art-that-bloomed-with-the-feinbergs/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=art-that-bloomed-with-the-feinbergs</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edo Tokyo Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feinberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a simple matter of economic convenience, some of the best art collections in the world started out going against established taste. By avoiding what was already highly valued — and therefore expensive — collectors could build up impressive collections that could then help to dictate future tastes. You would expect this rule of collecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday goods: the Japanese art of convenience</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/27/arts/everyday-goods-the-japanese-art-of-convenience/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=everyday-goods-the-japanese-art-of-convenience</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[convenience store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[konbini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mingei]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mingei&#8221; translates as &#8220;folk art&#8221; and is connected to objects that are made or used by ordinary people on an everyday basis. Usually this evokes hand-crafted objects, such as ceramics, baskets, items of woodwork, etc. As such, the term is evocative of the era before mass global trade. In modern Japan, with cheap imported items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making sense of medieval avatars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lady and the Unicorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musée de Cluny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tapestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The National Art Center Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Western model of sexual equality &#8212; one that drives women to focus on careers but also contributes to lower birthrates &#8212; may not be an entirely unmixed blessing, but the roots of the West&#8217;s gender attitudes run deep and stem from some interesting places, as &#8220;The Lady and the Unicorn&#8221; exhibition at The National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mono no aware: subtleties of understanding</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/06/arts/mono-no-aware-subtleties-of-understanding/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mono-no-aware-subtleties-of-understanding</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mono aware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suntory Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The essence of the "Mono no aware and Japanese Beauty" exhibition, currently at the Suntory Museum of Art,  is the appreciation of things in the shadow of their future absence.]]></description>
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		<title>Art born from  the disingenuous</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/30/arts/art-born-from-the-disingenuous/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=art-born-from-the-disingenuous</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odilon Redon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most radical force in art is not, as most people assume, genius, inspiration or sheer talent, it is instead a lack of technical ability. Combined with a strong desire to be an artist, this can prove to be a powerful driver of change and innovation, as revealed by &#8220;Odilon Redon: The Origins of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard for Leonardo to impress</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/23/arts/sometimes-its-hard-for-leonardo-to-impress/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sometimes-its-hard-for-leonardo-to-impress</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The reputation of Leonardo da Vinci is like an inverted pyramid &#8212; a massive, impressive structure that can draw a vast audience, but stands on an extremely narrow base. Although regarded as one of the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; artists of the Renaissance &#8212; along with Michelangelo and Raphael &#8212; the paintings on which this reputation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The humor of candid camera</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/23/arts/the-humor-of-candid-camera/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-humor-of-candid-camera</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kayo Ume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of the digital camera, mobile phones and social networking, the world is now drowning in photographic imagery. This raises the question: Can photography survive as an art form in a world where it is ubiquitous? The exhibition of work by Kayo Ume, under the title &#8220;Umekayo,&#8221; at the Tokyo Opera City Art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The disconcerting unity of Raphael</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/05/02/arts/the-disconcerting-unity-of-raphael/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-disconcerting-unity-of-raphael</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Museum of Westert Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raphael]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Harmony can sometimes have a disconcerting side. This is one insight to emerge from the Raphael exhibition at the National Museum of Western Art, the centerpiece of which is one of the artist&#8217;s acknowledged great works, the &#8220;Madonna del Granduca&#8221; (c. 1505). In his major review of Western art, &#8220;The Story of Art&#8221; (1950), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubens&#8217; best work is collaborative</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/04/arts/rubens-best-work-is-collaborative/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rubens-best-work-is-collaborative</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bunkamura The Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petr Paul Rubens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter, not because of the scenes from ancient Roman history that he sometimes painted, but because, when we encounter his works, we find ourselves trying to understand what kind of society could possibly have produced art with such vivid iconography, lavish symbolism and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis Bacon: The restlessness of human existence</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/28/arts/francis-bacon-the-restlessness-of-human-existence/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=francis-bacon-the-restlessness-of-human-existence</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Francis Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1989 Tim Burton film &#8220;Batman,&#8221; there is a famous scene where the Joker and his gang break into an art museum and vandalize masterpieces by the likes of Rembrandt, Degas, and Vermeer. But, just as one of his henchmen is about to slash a Francis Bacon canvas, the Joker steps in to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The diverse works of Asian women artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tochigi Prefecturual Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally visit exhibitions in company, but this time I made an exception and press-ganged a female acquaintance to join me. The reason for this was that the show I visited, &#8220;Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012&#8243; at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, is an exhibition of female artists&#8217; work. As a mere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Such sweet strokes of the Impressionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clark Art Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impressionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Ichigokan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A horde of Renoirs and other works from the high-water mark of Impressionism have descended on Tokyo &#8212; rampaging in their quiet, colorful way through the labyrinthine exhibition spaces of Tokyo&#8217;s Mitsubishi Ichigokan. &#8220;Great French Paintings from the Clark&#8221; mainly presents a riot of feathery brushstrokes, dappled surfaces, fluffy flowers, burnished apples and sloe-eyed maidens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driven to shoot on the frontlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gerda Taro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Capa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yokohama Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The camera never lies — or does it? The double-barreled exhibition now on at the Yokohama Museum of Art suggests that it doesn&#8217;t always tell the truth either. &#8220;Two Photographers: Robert Capa Centennial/ Gerda Taro Retrospective&#8221; is a time-traveling trip back to the middle of the last century — a period of fast-moving political struggle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the art of noise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haroon Mirza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scai The Bathhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If art is something that you want to feel comfortable with in your home, then Haroon Mirza is probably not your man. As the winner of the 2012 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, British-born, ethnic-Pakistani artist Mirza is being introduced to Tokyo&#8217;s art connoisseurs with a show at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE. But how much demand can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden truths laid bare in the details of realism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hoki Museum Trick Art Museum Realism Painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a population of around 35 million, Greater Tokyo is the ultimate &#8220;modernist&#8221; conurbation; a vast megacity, where something as old-fashioned as realist art might seem out-of-date and out-of-place. Maybe so, but on the metropolis&#8217; western and eastern extremities stand two museums that, each in their own way, evoke the power and potential of realism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble origins of great architectural photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of shows at the Shiodome Museum have been colorful and varied affairs, but the latest exhibition, showcasing Yukio Futagawa&#8217;s photos of traditional Japanese houses taken in 1955, strikes a very different note. There is an absence of color and accompanying objects, and in its place a sense of elegant simplicity and focus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hakuin: The sight of one hand clapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hakuin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen Buddhism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know the famous riddle, &#8220;What is the sound of one hand clapping?&#8221; Many are also aware that it is connected with Zen Buddhism, and some will even know that it is a famous koan by the 18th-century monk Hakuin. A koan, of course, is a paradoxical parable or query used in Zen Buddhism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Situations that end up spoiling the artistic landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you went to a movie theatre that insisted on doing anything other than showing you an actual movie, or to a restaurant where the waiter did all he could to stop you having an actual meal. This is a situation I sometimes find myself in when visiting art museums, especially if it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visions that leave little to the imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art can sometimes be surprisingly serious and po-faced, almost as if it were seen as a kind of substitute religion. Luckily, none of this pomposity attaches itself to the work of Sasae Ono, one of Japan&#8217;s most talented artists in the 20th-century, and the subject of the exhibition &#8220;Ono Sasae: Modern Girls on Parade&#8221; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show of hands for the National Museum of Western Art</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/20/arts/show-of-hands-for-the-national-museum-of-western-art/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=show-of-hands-for-the-national-museum-of-western-art</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that hands have a mind of their own. They remember where the keys are on a keyboard and which brushstroke in a Chinese character comes next, without too much conscious input from the brain. The instinctive way they work can also give a lot of art its style. The hand is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature that goes beyond its course</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The easiest way to describe this exhibition is &#8220;The meeting of two Mets,&#8221; with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Tokyo serving as a venue for 133 works from its much more renowned New York version, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, known simply as &#8220;The Met.&#8221; But despite all its fame and grandeur, and the copiousness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What lies behind Ben Shahn&#8217;s lines of the times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When an artist feels compelled to incorporate words and poetry into many of his artworks, we get a sense that he may have taken up the wrong profession. This feeling of being unsettled in his art is something that comes up again and again with the career of the left-wing 20th-century American artist Ben Shahn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run away to Paris with Rouault&#8217;s circus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris in its heyday &#8212; between one set of Germans marching in (1871) and another (1940) &#8212; is one of those fabled cities that exists forever in the human consciousness; one that is often prefixed with the word &#8220;gay,&#8221; in its earlier and truer sense. Any exhibition that manages to evoke this nostalgic world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History that lingers in photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.B. Liddell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an unseen hand behind The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art&#8217;s latest exhibition, &#8220;The Angel of History.&#8221; On the surface, this is an eclectic, almost random mix of avant-garde photography that spans the last 80 years and includes the work of Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe and others. But weaving this [...]]]></description>
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