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		<title>&#8216;The World of Red and White&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yuhei Wada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hasegawa Machiko Museum Closes Feb. 13 If you were to ask a Japanese person to name a very popular anime titles, he or she would likely mention &#8220;Sazae-san,&#8221; the amusing adventures of a ordinary Japanese family. While the TV program and the original comic-book series has become a household name, loved nationwide since its beginnings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Daido Moriyama: Tsugaru&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Closes Dec. 18 Daido Moriyama started taking photographs in the 1960s and has since become a cultural icon across the world. &#8220;Tsugaru,&#8221; showcases images he took during the mid 1970s in Tsugaru plain and Goshogawara in northeastern Aomori Prefecture. In a style that Moriyama has become known for, these black-and-white photographs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dominique Perrault: Urban Landscape&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Closes Dec. 26 The work of French architect Dominique Perrault is currently on show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Today numbered among the top tier of French architects alongside Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, Perrault shot to international fame early by scooping a major competition for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Global Ends: Towards the beginning&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOTO Gallery Ma Closes Feb. 26 TOTO Ltd., perhaps most well known for manufacturing high-tech electronic toilets, such as its trademarked &#8220;Washlet,&#8221; opened Gallery Ma in 1985 as a space dedicated to exhibitions on architecture. It has since attracted a number of Japan&#8217;s leading designers and architects as exhibition advisers, such as Tadao Ando, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Catalysis for Life: New Language of Dutch Art and Design&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Closes Jan. 30 In the design world, if there is one nation that has the knack of being self-referentially humorous, it has to be the Dutch. Take a look at its entry to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Instead of designing a pavilion, the Netherlands opted to build an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;&#8221;Home Sweet Home&#8221; by Invader&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallery Target Closes Nov. 19 Since its origin in 1970s New York, when youths started &#8220;bombing&#8221; buildings and subway trains with stylized graffiti of their names and other messages, street art has morphed to encompass various media and subject matter. It has also become hot property in the global contemporary art scene. The artist known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Llove&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Daikanyama i Studio Closes Nov. 23 Celebrating 400 years of trade relations between Japan and the Netherlands, artists from both countries have come together to open a three-story &#8220;love hotel&#8221; in Tokyo&#8217;s trendy Daikanyama area. For artistic director Suzanne Oxenaar, of Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam, Japan&#8217;s love hotel concept of &#8220;freely selecting a room according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;2011 s/s Collection &#8220;L&#8217;Etranger&#8221;&#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Glass-Space Exhibition opens Oct. 25, closes Oct. 30 Taro Horiuchi, one of a new generation of Japanese fashion designers, studied and established himself in London and Antwerp, Belgium. Unlike many other designers who have followed similar career paths, however, he chose to return to Japan to launch his first collection. This might not sound surprising, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Saburo Miyamoto: 1940-1945&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setagaya Art Museum Closes Nov. 28 One of the most astounding and, indeed, slightly unnerving pictures in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is Saburo Miyamoto&#8217;s &#8220;The Meeting of General Yamashita and General Percival&#8221; (1942). In a masterly, realist Western style, it depicts the conference between the Japanese and British military leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Here Comes the Tengu&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History Closes Oct. 31 Maybe it&#8217;s because of the big nose and the red face &#8212; like some grotesque characterization of my fellow Europeans and me &#8212; or it might just be the aura of a potent figure existing on the margins of a society. Whatever it is, since arriving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Self Portrait: Others as Myself&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Takahashi Collection Hibiya Closes Nov. 28 Since Seiki Kuroda (1866-1924), a leader of the yoga (Western-style painting) movement, introduced self-portraiture as a graduation project at the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts, it has become one of the school&#8217;s ongoing traditions and a respected art form in Japan. To celebrate the importance of self-representation, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mizuki Shigeru: Illustrations of Yokai&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe Closes Oct. 3 In an attempt to bolster its artistic pedigree, manga has sought parentage in the popular ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Edo Period (1603-1868) that achieved high-art status from the late decades of the 19th century. There are compelling reasons for establishing such parent/offspring connections. &#8220;Mizuki Shigeru: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Roni Horn: White Dickinson&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rat Hole Gallery Closes Dec. 5 In 2008, the Rat Hole gallery held American artist Roni Horn&#8217;s first solo exhibition, titled &#8220;This is me, This is You.&#8221; Horn placed a series of 48 photographs of her niece on one wall and on the opposite wall, she hung another 48 photographs that mirrored the first set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Look at Me&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Closes Oct. 3 &#8220;Look at Me,&#8221; the second exhibition in an ongoing series about photographic portraits, takes a big risk by not only limiting itself to a dangerously cliched subject &#8212; the nude &#8212; but also by drawing exclusively from the collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Nevertheless, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What&#8217;s Going on in Your Head When You&#8217;re Dancing&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laforet Museum Harajuku Closes Sept. 15 A garden shed took center stage on Aug. 25, the opening day of Karl Hyde&#8217;s debut solo exhibition at Laforet Museum in Harajuku, Tokyo. The British artist and musician, best known as one half of the influential electronic music group Underworld, gave a live painting performance that over an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Agnosian Fields&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Maison Hermes Le Forum Closes Nov. 23 &#8220;Agnosian Fields&#8221; &#8212; which takes its name from the neurological disorder Agnosia, the inability to recognize objects, shapes, smells, sounds and even people &#8212; is the first solo exhibition in Japan of Paris-based architect Didier Fiuza Faustino. &#8220;For me, this is all about architecture,&#8221; says Faustino, who explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Exhibition of the History of Japanese Confectionary&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naoko Kuramochi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Toraya Gallery Closes Sept. 20 Although wagashi (Japanese confectionary) may seem unusual and very different from Western sweets, in fact it has a long history of being influenced by foreign foods. The Toraya gallery traces the transformation of wagashi by showcasing various kinds of sweets from different historical periods, as well as documents, utensils, packaging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Innocence &#8212; Art Towards Life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Closes Sept. 20 The main focus of &#8220;Innocence &#8212; Art Towards Life,&#8217; is the work of people in Tochigi Prefecture who have mental difficulties or intellectual disabilities. Such untutored artists, often referred to as &#8220;outsider&#8221; artists, are considered to enjoy a more direct approach to self-expression than those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Paramodel Solo Exhibition: The World According to P&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Larking</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto Closes Aug. 28 Following on from the large-scale June-July retrospective &#8220;The World According to Paramodel&#8221; at the Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Kyoto&#8217;s Mori Yu Gallery has mounted a complementary show of recent Paramodel works in the solo exhibition: &#8220;The World According to P.&#8221; Artistic duo Yasuhiko Hayashi (b. 1971) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Naoya Hatakeyama: &#8220;Tracing Lines / Yamate Dori&#8221; &#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Closes Aug. 14 Hatakeyama is internationally renowned for his depictions of modern civilization and humankind&#8217;s relationship with nature, which comprise of dramatic photographs of lime quarry explosions, ominous shots of tunnels and rivers, and scale-distorting interpretations of architects&#8217; city models. Though his subjects have been diverse, his overarching theme of man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Robert Waters: MAN&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mizuma Art Gallery &#8212; Mizuma Action Closes on Aug. 14 Mizuma Art Gallery is hosting the first show in Asia of 35-year-old Canadian artist Robert Waters. &#8220;MAN&#8221; explores a variety of issues concerning sexuality, the body and human mortality. The figure in &#8220;Man at Computer&#8221; was made by attaching strips of brown packing tape to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Nippon Takaine Exhibition&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[@butterfly.stroke.inc. gallery Closes on July 25 During the 1990s, photographer Masayuki Yoshinaga published &#8220;Nippon Takaine,&#8221; a photo-book of Japan&#8217;s immigrant minority groups, which has become so popular it is being republished this year. To celebrate this second publication, @butterfly.stroke.inc. gallery is exhibiting 80 images from &#8220;Nippon Takaine,&#8221; ranging from a woman in a traditional Indian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science exhibition / &#8216;Sensor in the Life&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony ExploraScience &#8220;Sensor in the Life&#8221; closes Aug. 31 In a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in 2003, science was ranked as the subject school students thought to be the least important to learn, even though it was also listed as their favorite. Perhaps children see science as fun but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fergus Feehily: Inland&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Misako &#38; Rosen Closes July 4 Fergus Feehily&#8217;s &#8220;Inland,&#8221; now showing at Misako Rosen, is like a fleeting dreamy vision &#8212; a blurry image of a woman wrapped in the layers of a kimono that lingers when your eyes are closed. Behind a glass wall, a white sheet of paper with pale-pink brush marks hangs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Watanabe Toyoshige: Playing with ONI&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naoko Kuramochi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Closes Aug. 29 Demon, ogre, troll &#8212; in English, the Japanese oni has been given many names and is usually described as a mythical creature that is either malevolent or a punisher of bad deeds. For &#8220;Playing wih ONI,&#8221; at The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, however, Toyoshige Watanabe&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Alessandro Papetti: Dynamic Space&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marius Gombrich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo Closes June 17 Since being featured at the Venice Biennale in 2003, Italian oil painter Alessandro Papetti has started to gather a critical mass of interest in the art world, leading many to see the 52-year-old as the next big thing. Now, Tokyo&#8217;s Italian Cultural Institute is joining in, devoting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yoshitomo Nara: ceramic works&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Closes June 19 Yoshitomo Nara, one of the pioneers of the Japan&#8217;s 1990s&#8217; pop art wave, is virtually a household name in this country. His cartoon-style and cute characters have been exhibited worldwide and decorate a whole host of merchandise, such as cell-phone straps, wristwatches and T-shirts. The question now is: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fear Experiment: Science in &#8220;Haunted House&#8221; &#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mio Yamada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[National Museum of Emerging Science Closes May 31 A haunted house is not something you would expect to find at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), but this latest special exhibition begins with just that &#8212; an experience that spooks visitors with dank passageways, glowing fireball spirits, eerie floating ghosts and noisy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Maurice Utrillo: Un peintre solitaire qui aimait Paris&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marius Gombrich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sompo Japan Museum of Art Closes July 4 Maurice Utrillo is one of those artists who seem to defy gravity. When you take a good, long look at his canvases and notice the repetitiveness of subject matter (Parisian street corners and buildings apparently chosen at random) and his unsophisticated technique, at times reminiscent of naive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wilhelm Sasnal: 16 mm films&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Lowther</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rat Hole GalleryCloses June 6 A snowman on fire, women dancing on a car and the chopped-off roof of a vehicle used as a skate ramp are just some of the countless startling images encountered in the &#8220;16 mm films&#8221; exhibition of Wilhelm Sasnal. Presented in the basement of the Rat Hole Gallery, in Tokyo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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