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Donald Eubank
For Donald Eubank's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 19, 2007
Shinwa Contemporary Art Auction
Shinwa Art Museum, Ginza Last Saturday
CULTURE / Music
Apr 6, 2007
747s "Zampano"
The debut album by the U.K.'s 747s is a grower, not a shower. Although it starts brightly with "Night & Day" -- strangely reminiscent of early 1990s Paul Westerberg -- the excellently produced "Zampano" doesn't really scream for attention immediately. Instead it sets off on a series of songs that channel Supergrass without the edge ("Miles Away" and "Nature's Alibi") or The Beatles through the prism of Andy Partridge's XTC. But as the slower second half takes over, it becomes apparent that "Zampano" is the kind of album to fill in the time between when you are listening to bands that require more concentration -- whether it be because they have you jumping up and down or because you are working out if you like what they're trying. 747s have been opening for Arctic Monkeys so they have some heavy supporters. If they amp up their own sound on their next outing, they'll be on to something.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 5, 2007
"Obey Giant Versus WK Interact"
Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya Closes in 18 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 5, 2007
An art market in the making
When Fukusaburo Maeda and his wife Sohaku Yamashita founded the Nihon International Contemporary Art Festival (NICAF) in 1992, they were hoping to invigorate Japan's contemporary art scene. Perhaps they were ahead of their times, though, because while people were ready to come look at what was on show, they weren't ready to buy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2007
Third point of Roppongi
With the opening of Tokyo Midtown on Friday, the Art Triangle Roppongi concept is now complete. Comprised of the Mori Art Museum, the new National Art Center (NAC) and the elegant new Suntory Museum of Art -- part of the Midtown project -- the idea of a new precinct for art in Tokyo is ready to be tested.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 15, 2007
"16 Hour Museum"
March 17, noon-8 p.m. in Daikanyama March 25, 1 a.m.-9 p.m. at Super Deluxe, Nishi Azabu
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 15, 2007
"Record No.6"
Nadiff Closes in 17 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 1, 2007
"Where to for the Big Museums -- A New Strategy for Survival"
Mori Art Museum Feb. 9, 5-9 p.m.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 21, 2006
New show offers breakthrough installation
About a month ago at Tokyo's Shugoarts, photographer Yasumasa Morimura gave a performance in which he coopted the speech author Yukio Mishima gave from the balcony of the Self-Defense Force headquarters in Tokyo in 1970 before committing ritual seppuku inside the building. In his performance, Morimura repurposed Mishima's manifesto as a call for Japanese artists to return to Japanese culture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 7, 2006
"Hiroshi Sugimoto: Art Capturing"
Gallery KoyanagiCloses in 51 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 14, 2006
"Geisai #10"
Tokyo Big Site East Hall 4 Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 13, 2006
The accidental art collector: Unearthing the pure essence of Nature
The painters in your collection are commonly described simply as "Individualist." Can you elaborate on what is meant by that?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 29, 2006
"Olafur Eliasson -- Your Constants are Changing"
Gallery Koyanagi Closes in 9 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 7, 2006
Bring on the backlash say Arctic Monkeys
It must be difficult to carry the weight of the rock world's expectations on your shoulders, but Sheffield, England's Arctic Monkey's held up well Tuesday night at Studio Coast in eastern Tokyo. Giving Japan a quick preview tour in advance of their headline performances this summer at Summer Sonic, the band blitzed through their debut album and a couple new tunes in just over 60 minutes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 30, 2006
21st-century ambient narratives
Mood rings, lava lamps, liquid oil color projections.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2006
News rivals hit Yasukuni visits
Recent events in the nation's normally staid print media have surprised readers of the powerful Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2006
'Drawing Restraint 9': Matthew Barney's latest film stands on ceremony
There is a scene near the end of Matthew Barney's new movie "Drawing Restraint 9" where your greatest fears about the film come true. And no, it isn't a typical moment of blood-saturated transformation as in his "Cremaster Series" -- it's actually before the knives come out.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2006
Berlin/Tokyo : Your pick of the isms
See related story: Berlin/Tokyo : Invitation to a car wreck
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 6, 2005
Give them what they want
When Paul Baron moved to Tokyo three years ago, he was excited to explore the city's vast art world as he had been an avid follower of art events while studying graphic design in London. There was only one problem: Where to find out what was going on. It should have been easy; it should have all been online. It wasn't.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 24, 2004
Photos take on a life all of their own
When you enter "Frei schwimmer," the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition currently at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (TOC), one of the first things you notice is that the photographs on display are attached to the walls with tape or paper clips.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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