For Stuart Munro's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
"What remains is future" were words written on a bag I saw someone carrying at Yoshihiko Ueda's new exhibition "A life with Camera." It's the same phrase that appeared on badges Patti Smith handed out in New York nearly 10 years ago. Fittingly, her ...
"Can writing succeed as the subject of photography?" This is a question that troubles Paris-based artist Yuki Onodera. Her two works from the series "The World is Not Small Enough" are included in "Photographs by Five," a group show at Zeit-Foto Salon in Kyobashi, Tokyo, ...
At a time when popular culture is fed both mesmerizing and disturbing imagery, it often carries with it a sense of terror, while alluding to the possibility of something disturbingly sublime. What makes that something "sublime," however, evades easy definition. "Expanded Retina #2" at g3 ...
The walkways, ravines and peaks of the Himalayas, Tibet and Swiss Alps form the backdrop for "On the Mountain Path," the latest photographic exhibition by Nao Tsuda at Gallery 916. Tsuda's sizeable photographs show one man's appreciation for landscapes' resilience to inconstant climate and changing ...
Now in its seventh incarnation, Shiseido's most recent Tsubaki-kai group of artists is the first to be formed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of 2011, and it has added to its concerns the meeting of personal preoccupation with art's wider relevance ...
Art needn't be strictly visual. That's how Katsuhiko Hibino sees things. The artist once again serves as artistic director for this year's Roppongi Art Night, which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday and runs straight through until 6 p.m. on Sunday. Moving beyond the visual, Hibino ...
Walking in a line, hands gently touching the person in front and guided by someone able-sighted, blind female entertainers, known as Goze, would travel up and down Japan, come rain or snow, to play the shamisen and perform jōruri narrative music. Walking in unimaginable ...
In today's complicated world of mass media and communication, contemporary British artists are finding new means of expression.
Filmmaker and photographer Dennis Hopper leans against an old wall with his camera sandwiched between his body and the brickwork. Photographer Robert Frank lies sockless on the sand, harmonica in mouth. These celebrities are only two of a very long list of figures from ...
Ever since the Towada Art Center opened five years ago, the city in Aomori Prefecture has seen its prospects dramatically alter. Not only by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but by the subsequent devastation of neighboring areas, all of which compounded ...
