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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
What a concept: Imagine if you could see as clearly and in as much detail at midnight as you can at noon. The desire for night vision is an old one, but frankly the visions provided by new technologies have not impressed me — ...
The Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art sits in a scenic location by the mountains, 30 minutes from downtown Seoul. The sprawling sculpture garden out front is a beautiful place to relax, while the 25,000 sq. meters of space inside make it the largest ...
Berlin is not beautiful like Paris, rich like London, or charming like Amsterdam. Prewar buildings in the German capital are pockmarked by bullet holes, while postwar architecture testifies to the city’s division due to the Cold War — American, British and French sectors were ...
With its current exhibition, “Index #2 — Life Styles,” Tokyo Wonder Site in Ochanomizu has mounted a worthwhile survey of recent Japanese art-school graduates. Prolific critic Kentaro Ichihara, in association with Kyoto University of Art and Design, selected five Kanto- and five Kansai-region artists ...
The modern city envelops modern man so completely that he inhabits it even in his dreams — even in his best dreams. That’s the message weaving through the current exhibition at the Watari-Um Museum of Art in Tokyo’s Aoyama district. “Beautiful Cities in Dreams” ...
The Complex Building in Roppongi opened with five major contemporary art galleries a couple of years back, around the same time as the nearby Mori Art Museum. It has, however, been somewhat overlooked as new and larger spaces have debuted out east in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa. ...
In the development of contemporary art scenes in Asian countries over recent years, a strong tendency has been for artists to buck the yoke of tradition and steer well clear of anything that might remotely resemble their nation’s folk art — unless of course ...
Conceived during the optimism of the bubble era, but built in the mid 1990s, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography’s development was stunted by budget cuts, less-than-impressive attendance and an unfocused raison d’etre. Although centrally located in Ebisu with a large exhibition space, the ...
Computer software has revived the term “cut and paste.” We execute the commands when writing documents, treating images, or slipping stuff into an e-mail. Cutting and pasting is so simple that it’s easy to forget that the actions were originally performed not in a ...
Painting, photography and installations from emerging and experienced artists have made for a strong start to the Kiyosumi galleries’ first spring season. It is almost five months since four of Tokyo’s leading contemporary art galleries and four smaller ventures moved into the white warehouse ...
See related story: Berlin/Tokyo : Your pick of the isms Maybe my expectations were too high, in any case they were off target — because I found “Tokyo-Berlin/ Berlin-Tokyo” a pedestrian, listless exhibition — possibly the most disappointing thing the Mori Art Museum has ...
Several of my recent columns have dealt with new art spaces and centers in Tokyo. Today I want to wrap that up with a look at a gallery that has shunned the relocation trend by remaining in the city’s original contemporary art district — ...