Tokyo Big Site East Hall 4 Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Japanese art star Takashi Murakami is hosting the 10th Geisai art festival this Sunday at Tokyo Big Site (www.geisai.net). Held every six months, the event is an open call for young artists to show their ...
The painters in your collection are commonly described simply as "Individualist." Can you elaborate on what is meant by that? The Japanese do not know where to put these artists, and the Japanese like to have a cubbyhole for every single thing: "You're from the ...
Gallery Koyanagi Closes in 9 days Coming off a blockbuster exhibition at the Hara Museum in Shinagawa this winter, Olafur Eliasson has returned to Tokyo with a smaller, representative show of his work at the respected Gallery Koyanagi in Ginza (www.gallerykoyanagi.com). Eliasson is easily one ...
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 ...
Mood rings, lava lamps, liquid oil color projections. No, these aren't a list of the accouterments of your average psychedelia-obsessed hipster -- they are simply the easiest starting place from which to understand Brain Eno's new 77 Million Paintings software. Displayed over digital monitors, ...
Recent events in the nation's normally staid print media have surprised readers of the powerful Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun. The world's two largest newspapers in terms of circulation are typically on separate sides of the fence: the Yomiuri leans to the political right, while ...
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 ...
See related story: Berlin/Tokyo : Invitation to a car wreck Let's forget for a minute whether or not the Mori's new show "Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo" succeeds in its mission to show the links -- strong or tenuous -- between these two major cities. Instead let's discuss what ...
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 ...
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. After taking in a ...
