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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Art</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>
				<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<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>&#8216;Turner from the Tate:  The Makings of a Master&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[J.M. Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner&#8217;s experimental style allowed him to become one of the most prominent artistic figures of 19th-century Romanticism. This exhibition reflects the diversity of Turner&#8217;s talents and offers a comprehensive overview of some of his most famous paintings. Special attention is also given to rarely displayed works, some of which are [...]]]></description>
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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>&#8216;Kyoto from Inside and Outside: Scenes on Panels  and Folding Screens&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nijo Castle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryoanji Temple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo National Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, has harbored a rich traditional culture that has remained strong for generations. Focusing on large-scale works that present depictions of town life as well as seasonal views of the city, this exhibition reveals a detailed glimpse into the aesthetics of Kyoto culture. Three locations of particular symbolic interest are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Masterpieces from the Collection of Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 2013&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impressionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the 19th and 20th centuries, Paris gained a reputation as a cultural hub of Europe. It attracted artists such as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Odilon Redon, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Felix Vallotton — all of whom inspired and influenced each other&#8217;s work. It was also an era of change, when such artists sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Takamikura and Michodai: Chrysanthemum and Nippon&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/10/02/arts/takamikura-and-michodai-chrysanthemum-and-nippon/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=takamikura-and-michodai-chrysanthemum-and-nippon</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chrysanthemum throne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michodai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[takamikura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zohiko Urushi Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the Emperor&#8217;s 80th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his reign, replicas of the takamikura (Chrysanthemum throne) and michodai (a curtained platform) are being displayed at Kyoto&#8217;s Zohiki Urushi Museum. Created between 1913-1915, these models were made around the same time as the originals, which are now housed in Shishin-den Hall at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansetsu Hashimoto&#8217;s Chinese rebellion</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/kansetsu-hashimotos-chinese-rebellion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kansetsu-hashimotos-chinese-rebellion</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Larking</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansetsu Hashimoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the end of the Edo Period (1603-1867), Japanese art began to shift its fundamental cultural orientation from China to Europe. Kansetsu Hashimoto, however, (1883-1945) initially abjured, and this had much to do with his upbringing Born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, his father was an eminent Confucian scholar whose own painting exploits are nowadays largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chawan: Simply, some of the hardest works of pottery to create</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/chawan-simply-some-of-the-hardest-works-of-pottery-to-create/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chawan-simply-some-of-the-hardest-works-of-pottery-to-create</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Yellin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chawan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musee Tomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pottery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of Japanese traditional ceramics there is not one form held in higher esteem than a chawan, a &#8220;mere&#8221; bowl used to serve whipped green tea. For more than 400 years this celebrated clay form has challenged potters to create a perfect vessel of segmented harmony to &#8220;simply&#8221; enjoy a cup of tea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Divisionism from Van Gogh  and Seurat to Mondrian&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/divisionism-from-van-gogh-and-seurat-to-mondrian/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=divisionism-from-van-gogh-and-seurat-to-mondrian</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Neo-impressionists, divisionism, painting, National Art Center]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Comical Ukiyo-e: Humorous Pictures and  the School of Kuniyoshi&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/comical-ukiyo-e-humorous-pictures-and-the-school-of-kuniyoshi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=comical-ukiyo-e-humorous-pictures-and-the-school-of-kuniyoshi</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[prints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ukiyoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Edo Period (1603-1867) of Japan is well known for its economic growth and strong social order, but a lesser known fact is that people of this era also enjoyed comedy. Comedic ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) were particularly popular and they typically depicted anthropomorphic interpretations of plants or animals, showing them in human-like poses and comical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tokyo Art Meeting:  Bunny Smash —  Design to Touch the World&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/tokyo-art-meeting-bunny-smash-design-to-touch-the-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-art-meeting-bunny-smash-design-to-touch-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project, this exhibition focuses on how expressions in contemporary art and design can inspire each other and society. It spotlights 21 groups of artists, designers and architects from around the globe, all of whom create works inspired by the information-saturated age we live in. The artists approach established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Art Brut Japonais&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/25/arts/art-brut-japonais/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=art-brut-japonais</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art brut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukuoka Art Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsider art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This exhibition already won high praise at its initial 2010-11 showing in Paris. Art brut, like outsider art, refers to creations by those who typically lack any traditional or extensive artistic training, though it more specifically refers to those using art as some form of therapy. Since many of the artists involved in the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nihonga: without the hand over the eye</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/18/arts/nihonga-without-the-hand-over-the-eye/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nihonga-without-the-hand-over-the-eye</link>
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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>Tokyo Photo 2013 heads for Zojoji Temple</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/18/arts/tokyo-photo-2013-heads-for-zojoji-temple/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tokyo-photo-2013-heads-for-zojoji-temple</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zojoji Temple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s first international photography fair, Tokyo Photo, strengthens its hold on the photography scene in Asia with its fifth yearly installment from Sept. 27 to 30 at a new location at the Zojoji Temple in the downtown area of the city. The move to the storied temple for Tokyo Photo 2013, making the event a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Roppongi Crossing 2013:  Out of Doubt&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mori Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Returning for a fourth time since its first installment in 2004, the &#8220;Roppongi Crossing&#8221; series of exhibitions aim to provide an extensive overview of the current contemporary Japanese art scene. For 2013, the state of modern Japanese art is explored through works influenced by current events and global perspectives. &#8220;Out of Doubt,&#8221; refers to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sengai and the World of Zen&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[calligraphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idemitsu Museum of Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sengai Gibon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During his life as a monk, Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) was admired for not only his artistic ability but also his modesty and simplistic way of life. Despite his social status, he chose to don an everyday black robe instead of one of distinguished purple silk, and his beliefs were reflected in what is now one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Arakawa Africa 4&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gallery Ogu Mag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Arakawa district of Tokyo and Africa are thousands of kilometers apart, the two locations do, perhaps surprisingly, share some commonalities in their culture and landscape. As part of the Asahi Art Festival, &#8220;Arakawa Africa&#8221; bridges the gap between the two peoples by highlighting such similarities and creating artistic collaborations. While the event is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Light and Illumination&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Light is an integral aspect of all forms of artistic expression, whether it&#8217;s portrayed in paintings, captured in ceramic glazes or created as man-made illuminations. This exhibition displays some of the most famous artistic expressions of light by many of the world&#8217;s most-respected artists. Featured paintings include those by Claude Monet and Georges Rouault, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-world validations of our digital realm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cameron Allan Mckean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kawasaki City Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are now living in a super, hyper-extended information society,&#8221; says curator Masafumi Fukugawa, &#8220;and that idea was the starting point for our new exhibition.&#8221; Fukagawa is one of five curators of &#8220;Being-in-the-Wired-World,&#8221; a group exhibition at Kawasaki City Museum that features eight emerging artists (or artist duos) commissioned to make work responding to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tireless patience of a behavioral photographer</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/11/arts/the-tireless-patience-of-a-behavioral-photographer/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-tireless-patience-of-a-behavioral-photographer</link>
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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>&#8216;A Toast to the Drinking Glass:  In History and Life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glassware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suntory Museum of Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the title suggests, an everyday object becomes a spectacle of art and history for this exhibition, which explores the evolution of the drinking glass from primitive to modern times. With a focus on historical artworks depicting the usage of various drinking vessels for ritual or daily life, the show highlights the importance of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Soul of Meiji: Edward Sylvester Morse, His Day by Day With Kindhearted People&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edo Tokyo Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Sylvester Morse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American zoologist Edward Sylvester Morse was one of the leading figures in the popularization of Japanese ceramic art overseas. While on a science research trip to Japan in 1877, Morse amassed a collection of more than 5,000 pieces of pottery. For his service and academic contributions to Japan, he also received a number of ceramic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Homage to Henri Rousseau: The World of Naive Painters and Outsiders&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Henri Rousseau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naive art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsider art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setagaya Art Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tax collector-turned-Post-Impressionist artist, Henri Rousseau was a self-taught painter known for his Naive works. Though it took time for his style, which was often described as simplistic and childlike, to be accepted by art critics, he helped pave the way for other talented untrained artists. Now often referred to as Outsider art, such artists&#8217; work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hashimoto Kansetsu Retrospective&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan Sievers  and Jordan C. Sievers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hashimoto Kansetsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nihonga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the 130th anniversary of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artist Kansetsu Hashimoto&#8217;s birth, the Hyogo Museum presents around 70 of his most famous works. As a scholar of Chinese culture and history, Hashimoto&#8217;s artistic style mirrors that of traditional Chinese folklore, featuring elegantly illustrated animals and allusions to allegorical significance. Hashimoto pioneered a new [...]]]></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>The poster nation of unusual graphic design</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art often thrives as it wriggles out from under a big heavy rock. This can be said about creativity in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to &#8217;80s. As the nation broke free of Stalinism, careered toward the Prague Spring and then finally celebrated the end of Communism in 1989, music, art and film began mixing messages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese collectors take a conceptual turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cameron Allan Mckean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing the choice of Koki Tanaka — a conceptual artist — for the Japanese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale this year, &#8220;Why Not Live For Art? II: 9 collectors reveal their treasures&#8221; at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery suggests that art collecting in Japan has taken a conceptual turn. Curated by Hori Motoaki, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Illusion of light: Museum of the Magic, Art in Wonderland&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie Omata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ueno Royal Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Museum of the Magic, Art in Wonderland&#8221; has already visited 18 locations across Japan, drawing in a total of more than 500,000 visitors. Due to popular demand, it was even repeated at some of its venues. This is the 23rd showing of the exhibition and its first time in Tokyo. An interactive show, the artworks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Special Exhibition: Momoyama Ceramic Masterpieces — Shino, Ki-seto, Seto-guro and Oribe Wares&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/04/arts/special-exhibition-momoyama-ceramic-masterpieces-shino-ki-seto-seto-guro-and-oribe-wares/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=special-exhibition-momoyama-ceramic-masterpieces-shino-ki-seto-seto-guro-and-oribe-wares</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie Omata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitsui Memorial Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Momoyama Period]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ceramics in this exhibition date to the late-Momoyama Period (1573-1615) and all hail from the Mino Province in modern-day Gifu Prefecture. Four kinds of Mino ceramic ware became representative of the Momoyama Period — Shino (thick white glaze with red marks), Ki-Seto (yellow glaze and green blemishes), Seto-guro (black glaze) and Oribe-yaki (various colors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Gustave Moreau et Georges Rouault: Filiation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/04/arts/gustave-moreau-et-georges-rouault-filiation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gustave-moreau-et-georges-rouault-filiation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie Omata</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Georges Rouault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustave Moreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiodome Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), the leading French Symbolist painter, was also a professor at Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. He taught many well-known artists but he was particularly enamored with Georges Rouault (1871-1958), who he sometimes referred to as his &#8220;son.&#8221; Moreau encouraged Rouault throughout his life and even appointed him as the director of the [...]]]></description>
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