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Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Nov 10, 2005

The man in the photo

"Over 4,000 pictures!" the press officer shouts with enthusiasm over the phone the day after the opening of the most comprehensive exhibition of 65-year-old Nobuyoshi Araki's photographs to date.

Japan Times

Features

Jul 10, 2005

'Istarted to get to work late -- sometimes at 11, then at 12 and then at 2; and then I had to quit my job."

Features

Jun 26, 2005

Learning to fly

He had been looking for someone to commit suicide with for a long time. Now that he had found the right person, Ken had traveled half the way around the world in order to carry out his plan. He was nevertheless surprised to find himself standing on a familiar-looking train platform with his hands tucked in to his coat looking at the passing trains, which were gray with dirt.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Stage

Jun 22, 2005

Breathing the life into the dance

"I had a hard time finding the title," Pina Bausch tells me during an interview about her most recent work, "Nefes." The Turkish for "Breath" is the title of the latest in a series of works which the choreographer, who will turn 65 in July this year, has created in collaboration with theaters around the world, this time with Istanbul's theater festival.

Japan Times

COMMUNITY

Jun 8, 2005

Taking the art out into the garden

From actresses imprisoned in vitrines and sharks suspended in formaldehyde to plaster houses that deteriorate with the rain and artificial shorelines made of pebbles and plastic -- contemporary British artists seem, after 10 years, to be taking art out of the glass case and into the environment -- wholesale.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP

May 1, 2005

Sadako Ogata: Front-line fighter for a better world

Sadako Ogata, formerly United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is one of Japan's most prominent international figures.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Stage

Sep 29, 2004

Rhapsody to the bohemian lifestyle

More than a century has passed since the first performance Puccini's "La Boheme" in 1896, yet it remains one of the most widely performed operas in the world. That may be because the opera, a dramatization of the French writer, Henry Murger's 1849 novel "Scenes of the Bohemian Life" , seems to celebrate a lifestyle that was a construction of the 19th century but is still thriving today. Similarly the box-office success of Baz Luhrmann's film "Moulin Rouge" (2001), a pastiche extravaganza drawing on the opera, is perhaps an indication of how in the modern era, we still expect our artists to be unable to feed themselves, behave erratically, fall in love unequivocally, and live and die dysfunctionally.

CULTURE / Art

Sep 15, 2004

Inside out and round and round the Yamanote

Johnnie Walker's A.R.T. gallery (Art Residency Tokyo), which opened last October, extends his philanthropic mission to promote cultural exchange between foreign and Japanese artists. Offering a window into Tokyo for many young hopefuls as well as a meeting point for the more established, the gallery is housed on the ground and basement floors of a building designed by leading young architect Yukiharu Takamatsu (who also designed Mariko Mori's Dream Temple).

CULTURE / Stage

Aug 18, 2004

Shakespeare speaks for modern times

A struggle for control at the heart of a state followed by the assassination of the leader; division between rival noblemen and their factions; the resulting civil war; the death of a nobleman's wife by suicide; and lastly the ritual suicide of all the original conspirators against the leader. Sound familiar? But this is not Japan in the 18th century, this is Rome in the first century B.C., as dramatized by William Shakespeare in "Julius Caesar."

Japan Times

CULTURE / Stage

Jul 7, 2004

Moving heaven and earth

Pina Bausch established her Tanztheater Wuppertal in the early '70s. Working from a small town in Germany's industrial heartland, her company has built up an extraordinary international reputation with more than 35 productions to its name.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.

For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on

By Lance Henderstein

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