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CULTURE / Art

Jan 3, 2008

"Hitoshi Kuriyama"

Magical Art Room

CULTURE / Art

Jan 3, 2008

Taka Ishii Gallery

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Dec 27, 2007

Blockbusters and new momentum

This was another great year for art enthusiasts with breadth, depth and an audience for all kinds exhibitions and events.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Dec 20, 2007

Human conditions

Like Picasso at his most mythologically cubist or a dark dream from the subconscious, the Dairakudakan butoh dance troupe took its audience back to the primordial for its 35th anniversary performances last week — and then brought it right back to the present.

CULTURE / Art

Dec 20, 2007

"SALON — Art Lounge"

Mado Lounge, Mori Hills 52F

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Dec 6, 2007

"Norbert Schwontkowski: My Face in My Next Life"

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Nov 22, 2007

Asian collectors overtake Japanese market

China casts a long shadow over the Japanese art market. However lively, large and long-suffering the art world in Japan may be, it has not garnered the kind of excited interest that the relatively young Chinese scene has in the last five years.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Oct 25, 2007

Hands on contemporary clay

D.H. Rosen, an occasional contributor to The Japan Times Arts Page, is also a ceramicist who has been studying art at Tama Art University in Tokyo since 2004. Unlike many foreign ceramic artists who come to absorb the traditional wabi-sabi aesthetic of traditional pottery, Rosen was interested in Tama because it is the one university that encourages the use of clay as a medium for nonfunctional art — as opposed to solely as a material for vessels. In advance of a live performance involving his works that Rosen will be held Friday night at SuperDeluxe in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, we spoke with him about the current state of ceramics in Japan.

CULTURE / Art

Oct 18, 2007

Design meets art at 'Roppongi Crossing'

The world loves Japanese design. Because of this, Design Week, coming up next month, is arguably one of the most successful international events in Tokyo. By contrast, Tokyo Fashion Week and Tokyo International Film Festival hardly generate in those fields' fans the rabid excitement that the designers' event does.

CULTURE / Art

Oct 18, 2007

Eight must-sees as Mori Art embraces 'excess'

Chu Enoki, "RPM-1200" (2005): Chu's work is a standout, a shining metal city made of what look like industrial drill bits, massive screws and saw blades. It's a perfect example of the use of excess in a number of the works in the exhibition to convey the chaos of the present day urban experience.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Sep 27, 2007

Tokyo gallery walkabout

Tokyo's galleries have woken from their summer slumbers — or, more likely, beach naps — with a vengeance. The current wave of openings started out in the east, at the complex of galleries in Kiyosumi, with shows that are set to close this Saturday (two were reviewed here this month).

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Sep 6, 2007

Tomio Koyama Gallery Closes in 17 days

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Aug 30, 2007

Immersed in playful worlds

Tokyo Opera City Gallery has one of the best art spaces in the city, and a program that ranks it with The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo near Kiyosumi in eastern Tokyo and the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Aug 16, 2007

"Takafumi Tsuchiya Exhibition"

Wada Fine Arts Closes in 9 days

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Jul 26, 2007

It's almost counterintuitive — in the midst of the glorious chaos that is China as it modernizes itself, Chinese painters are technically spotless. In their hands, paint has been tamed, a tool with which they slickly create canvases with flawless surfaces that almost hide their workmanship.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Jul 5, 2007

"Yoshihiro Suda"

Gallery Koyanagi Closes in 24 days

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

Jun 7, 2007

Subtlety and humor in American art

It's strange to go to China — in the midst of a contemporary-art boom, or bubble as could be feared — and encounter a stunning exhibition of American art. But that's what Shanghai's Museum of Contemporary Art is currently offering visitors.

Japan Times

CULTURE / Art

May 24, 2007

Products from other dimensions

At the Sanja Matsuri festival last weekend in Asakusa, the residents of that old Tokyo town were re-enacting community-building rituals that they have enjoyed since the Edo Period (1603-1867). Meanwhile, across town in Nakaochiai, two artists who met in San Francisco, Crust and Dirt, were creating their own new ways of bringing people together with the exhibition "Inter-dimensional Trading Table" at the Nakaochiai Gallery.

CULTURE / Stage

May 24, 2007

Defining the nation

When Chikamatsu Yanagi and his collaborators were writing "Ehon Taikoki" in 1799, Japan was arguably enjoying the height of Edo Period culture (1603-1867). In retrospect it was a transitional time — perhaps the last moments of peace before the pressures of the outside world started to affect the island, and "Ehon Taikoki" is often called the last great bunraku play. Still, as they looked back on the events of 1582 depicted in the story, the writers could see them as fundamental to the establishment of a unified Japan — the origins of the modern, supposedly homogenized nation in which they were living.

CULTURE / Music

Apr 20, 2007

Dinosaur Jr "Beyond"

With a band as consistent as Dinosaur Jr, you would hope that their first release in 10 years, "Beyond," would sound pretty much like the band always has. And it does, with the same grinding, whiny guitars, the insistent wall of sound and the same obscure lyrics.

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.

[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.

Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree

By Alex K.T. Martin

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