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SHIODOME MUSEUM

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
The Renaissance rebranding of Italy
Every country tries to find an image that its people can believe in and unite around. Britain recently decided to become an island in its own right instead of a "Continental" country, tied mainly to the European Union. Japan, meanwhile, still seems caught between its manufacturing past and a perceived need to rebrand — with the help of the 2020 Olympics — as a successful knowledge economy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 14, 2016
'The Genius of Michelangelo: Majestic Renaissance Architecture'
June 25-Aug. 28
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 5, 2016
'Revalue Nippon Project: Hidetoshi Nakata's Favorite Japanese Kogei'
April 9-June 5
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 16, 2016
What do you know about the flowers that grow in an English royal garden?
There is a fascinating story to be found at the "English Garden" exhibition now on at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum — that is if you look closely. That tale is of botanical imperialism, namely the desire by the expansionary spirit of the British Empire to send artists and botanists to far-flung, exotic lands to draw, paint, record, collect and occasionally transplant various plant species to new environments.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 8, 2015
Real beauty lies in rustic reality
French society and culture has always had a fascination with the exotic, going back to the Chinoiserie of the rococo period, the Orientalist fascination with the harems and slave markets of the Middle East, and the Japonisme of the 19th century. One might even suspect that this trait could represent a certain vacuous element in French society.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2015
'Jules Pascin Exhibition'
Traveling was a major source of inspiration for Jules Pascin (1885-1930), a painter who was of Italian-Serbian and Spanish heritage and born in Bulgaria. Educated in Vienna and then in Munich, he later moved to France, where in the 1920s he became a significant figure of the Modern School of Paris. This exhibition is divided into five sections related to the places Pascin lived in — from Munich to Paris, Montparnasse and Montmartre, then his journey to America and back to France after World War I.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 4, 2014
The trick to understanding Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico is not unlike a rock star in terms of his career trajectory. His greatest and most seminal work was done when he was young — between the ages of 23 and 32 — after which he lost much of his "edge," but kept going by rehashing his earlier career, mixing it with the less adventurous but still interesting output of his later years.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2014
'Giorgio de Chirico: De la Metafisica a la Neo Metafisica'
About 100 works by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) — including oils, watercolors sketches and sculptures — are being brought to the Shiodome Museum Rouault Gallery, with roughly 80 percent of them being shown in Japan for the first time.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 3, 2014
Japan's iron age continues in style
Nambu Tekki, traditional Japanese ironware has developed to produce many aesthetically pleasing designs, including brightly colored contemporary products for the French market.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013
'Gustave Moreau et Georges Rouault: Filiation"
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 "son." Moreau encouraged Rouault throughout his life and even appointed him as the director of the Gustave Moreau Museum in his will.

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Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
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