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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Stuart Munro</title>
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		<title>The Towada Art Center expands its landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Towada Oirase Art Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Towada Art Center opened five years ago, the city in Aomori Prefecture has seen its prospects dramatically alter. Not only by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but by the subsequent devastation of neighboring areas, all of which compounded the dwindling prosperity of Towada. It was detached from nearby Misawa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tireless patience of a behavioral photographer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gallery 916]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kozo Miyoshi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Wim Wenders&#8217; 1984 film &#8220;Paris, Texas,&#8221; Walt (Dean Stockwell) picks up his younger brother Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), who had disappeared in the desert four years earlier, to drive him back to Los Angeles. As Walt drives, Travis shows him a weathered picture of an empty plot of land he bought in some nondescript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shuji Terayama&#8217;s underground public stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shuji Terayama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watari Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watari-um]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years on from the death of Shuji Terayama, Japanese theater&#8217;s most avant-garde provocateur continues his renaissance with a show of his films, photography and, most importantly, theater works at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, which follows on from the recent showing of printed ephemera at the Poster Hari&#8217;s gallery in Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya district. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s &#8216;YBA&#8217; have moved on, but they still inspire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomio Koyama Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Ben Wheatley&#8217;s recent film &#8220;A Field in England,&#8221; a group of deserting soldiers fleeing the 17th-century English Civil War escape through a field of mushrooms, only to be captured by an alchemist and descend into a nightmare of both body and mind &#8212; all against the backdrop of the English countryside. Such madness and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open sky, flying high</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/08/07/arts/open-sky-flying-high/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=open-sky-flying-high</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aircraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts Chiyoda 3331]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In her book &#8220;North to the Orient,&#8221; published in 1935, aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh, one of America&#8217;s first female pilots, and wife of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh, wrote of the cultural differences she experienced traveling across Asia, and on the simple act of saying farewell. She remarked of her fondness for the Japanese word &#8220;sayonara,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveying the city from a different viewpoint</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/07/10/arts/surveying-the-city-from-a-different-viewpoint/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=surveying-the-city-from-a-different-viewpoint</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MOMAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Museum of Modern Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beside Stephan Balkenhol&#8217;s sculpture &#8220;Big Head with Three Part Relief&#8221; a note reads, &#8220;Nothing here is as it should be.&#8221; This figureless &#8220;head&#8221; set against a black void represents &#8220;Mr. Everyman,&#8221; that common figure, detached from his surround and considering his place in the world. Balkenhol, having experienced the reunification of Germany, perhaps found himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gregor Schneider: temporary structures that resist conformity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seemingly out of nowhere, German artist Gregor Schneider exhibits major work at the recently opened TOLOT/heuristic Shinonome complex. His solo show brings together &#8220;It&#8217;s All Rheydt&#8221; (Kolkata, 2011) and photography from his largest undertaking, &#8220;Haus u r,&#8221; a house in his hometown of Rheydt that, since 1985, has slowly been refashioned from within. &#8220;It&#8217;s All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we all blinded by our sense of beauty?</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/arts/are-we-all-blinded-by-our-sense-of-beauty/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-we-all-blinded-by-our-sense-of-beauty</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hara Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophie Calle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sophie Calle is an enigma. She is an artist, writer, photographer and filmmaker yet doesn&#8217;t work exclusively in any of these areas. She has become famous for her work in photography but her objects and later films have drawn equal attention — work that carries with it the curiosity of a detective who chases ghosts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observing the present and past is to see into the future</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/13/arts/observing-the-present-and-past-is-to-see-into-the-future/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=observing-the-present-and-past-is-to-see-into-the-future</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daido Moriyama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallery 916]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 48 years, Daido Moriyama has followed his photographic instinct, drawn to subjects whose characters appear as vibrant as they are tragic while leaving the question of which for us to decide. The act of exhibiting, through the unraveling of images, has charted this one man&#8217;s continuous urban exploration, which after nearly five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How far does the apple drop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Container]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zevs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t like Graffiti&#8221; states French artist Zevs, who is known for his street-art work and is currently showing at The Container in Daikanyama. &#8220;Heaven&#8221; presents two pieces. The first — a poster depicting a young couple in New York surrounded by electronics, while the Apple logo bears down from behind— is a recreation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JR&#8217;s portraits put a face on Tohoku</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watari-um]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[French artist JR, whose show of photographic artwork is on display at the Watari-um (Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), inspires while questioning the role of art in war-torn and disaster-ridden places, asking whether art could really change things for the better. JR not only documents but also involves people he meets, curating ad-hoc galleries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoy an art night out in Roppongi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Roppongi Art Night]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring finally returns and with the change of weather comes a flurry of activity in and around Tokyo, as this year&#8217;s Roppongi Art Night is welcomed back. Running from 10 a.m. on March 23 until 6 p.m. the next day, the festival hosts a diverse collection of new and established artists, some showing for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the ubiquity of great design</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/14/arts/on-the-ubiquity-of-great-design/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-the-ubiquity-of-great-design</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21_21 Design Site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keigo Oyamada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taku Satoh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yugo Nakamura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Originally made as a program broadcast on NHK&#8217;s education channel, &#8220;Design Ah!&#8221; &#8212; led by graphic designer Taku Satoh, Interactive designer and artist Yugo Nakamura, and musician Keigo Oyamada &#8212; has gone one step further to become an interactive exhibition. Taking the films and sounds of the television show as a source of inspiration, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infectious artwork that spreads ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beatriz Inglessis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paper cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Container]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On Mosquitoes Human and Other Animals&#8221; is the work of artist Beatriz Inglessis in collaboration with three other people: philosopher Suzanne McCullagh, education specialist Renee Jackson and gallery curator Shai Ohayon. The latest show at The Container gallery in Nakameguro, it&#8217;s the result of months of correspondence and conversation between all involved, who meandered through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old art building faces a new &#8216;Junction&#8217; in life</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/01/03/arts/old-art-building-faces-a-new-junction-in-life/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=old-art-building-faces-a-new-junction-in-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Yanaka, a 10-minute walk from Nippori Station in Tokyo, a new art center is being constructed in the shell of a 50-year-old house that had been the atelier and residence of students from Tokyo Art University since 2004. Like many buildings of its age, it suffered considerable damage during the Great East Japan Earthquake, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprisingly familiar photography</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/12/06/arts/surprisingly-familiar-photography/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=surprisingly-familiar-photography</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you continually surprise and shock when your work has become so familiar? What can you say with a photograph that hasn&#8217;t been said before? Will making things bigger make them better? These questions niggle at the back of the mind while visiting Shinoyama Kishin&#8217;s current show. &#8220;The people by Kishin&#8221; at Tokyo Opera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the details of our landscapes sits a panorama of mankind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Johnny Hardstaff&#8217;s short film &#8220;Transmission,&#8221; a group of astronauts training to visit a distant planet are interviewed. Filmed as a viral promotion for Ridley Scott&#8217;s recent film &#8220;Prometheus,&#8221; &#8220;Transmission&#8221; acts as an introduction to the characters of Scott&#8217;s universe, rich in both story and visual detail. Made as a recorded message to be transmitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ikko Tanaka&#8217;s designs live on</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of a retrospective makes me nervous. Simply put, it often signals the end of something. So in the case of a designer&#8217;s show, a retrospective feels like a parting shot, final note or a bid farewell. Not what you want if your motivation is continuous relevance. Visiting the latest show at 21_21 Design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing life&#8217;s ebb and flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alejandro Chaskielberg is an Argentinean photojournalist who visits places most of us only read about. His current show at Gallery 916 in the Takeshiba district of Tokyo&#8217;s Minato Ward, brings together two photographic series, one from his time in Argentina and the other from Kenya. &#8220;High Tide&#8221; documents the lives of workers in Argentina&#8217;s Parana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a nostalgic train of thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Train travel inspires nostalgia. There&#8217;s no escaping it. It conjures up memories of childhood &#8212; playing beside the rail track at the bottom of the garden or with a miniature railway at home. However, politics and societal change have influenced and produced more controversial images of rail travel &#8212; images of restless kids huddled together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code and function in a world of altered reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hideki Nakazawa originally studied medicine graduating from the Medical School of Chiba University to work as an ophthalmologist until, in 1990, he decided to work with computer graphics as an illustrator. His experience of art during university and his shift to illustration saw him explore representation with repetition and geometry, taking cues from the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to put Masayoshi Sukita in the limelight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1970s, England was in the grips of a recession. Endless trade-union strikes led to power cuts, a &#8220;three-day&#8221; working week and streets engulfed in uncollected rubbish. What transpired was a massive cultural shift, with history and politics colliding with a youth movement that would go on to aggressively shape the country. England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art director Hideki Nakajima throws down the gauntlet of design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Munro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Hiroshima the sun is setting on a large retrospective exhibition by one of Japan&#8217;s leading graphic designers, who for the past 20 years has been working at the edge of his discipline, carving out a unique niche for himself within a very prescribed industry. Born in Saitama Prefecture, Hideki Nakajima grew up aspiring to [...]]]></description>
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