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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Mar 31, 2004
Ishiwata's hands make 'Lightworks' at Uplink
In the event that you find yourself up in Edogawabashi, be aware that the northern Shinjuku neighborhood is not completely off the map, art-wise. Two very pleasant spaces occupy a building just a few minutes walk from its eponymous station -- the Uplink Gallery and La Galerie des Nakamura.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Mar 10, 2004
To view life in Lomotion, try denying the details
In photography and image processing these days, the general idea is that higher resolution and more faithful color rendition makes for better images. Of course, that is only the general idea. Thankfully, there are some creative types out there who disagree.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Feb 25, 2004
Discovering the bright side of the 'dark continent'
When I was young, Africa and its people were represented to me through two distinct sets of images. The first, delivered by National Geographic and other anthropological sources, were the cliched photographs of tribesmen gripping spears in their hands and bare-breasted woman balancing baskets on their heads. The second sort of pictures I saw, these from Oxfam and other international aid organizations, were of dirty and undernourished children, abdomens distended from malnutrition, a terrible pleading in their young eyes. These images, taken by and for Westerners, fixed themselves so firmly in my memory that they remain there to this day.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Feb 11, 2004
Contemporary art currents crossing at Roppongi's Mori
"Roppongi Crossing," which opened last weekend at the Mori Art Museum, is a smorgasbord of an exhibition, with work by 60 artists and designers from across Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jan 28, 2004
A love/hate relationship set in concrete
In the classic 1971 British action film "Get Carter," Michael Caine plays a small-time criminal who avenges the death of his brother by tossing one of the gangsters responsible (played by Brian Mosely) off the top of a multistory car park in the gritty northeast England town of Gateshead. From what I learned last week, I'd guess there are more than a few Gateshead residents who wish Caine had tossed architect Owen Luder off the roof instead.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jan 14, 2004
Zoom in on Shinjuku for photogalleries galore
Arguably the premier creative medium in Japan, photography has undergone significant changes over the last few years. The advent of digital imaging has made it easier and cheaper for people to experiment with photography, while the latest generation of inkjet printers have made it possible to display these images at sizes that were all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 31, 2003
Looking back to find new beginnings
New Year's is about endings and beginnings. People we've lost, places we've discovered, what's gone and what's to come. Some thoughts as we cross over:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 17, 2003
A family unit to value in tech's brave new world
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Shinagawa used to be a family home, and it must have been a very nice one because it is a beautiful place, designed and built in the late 1930s in the Bauhaus style. The hardwood floors and comfortably high ceilings create a relaxing atmosphere in the one-time dining, sitting and bedrooms that now serve as galleries. In a couple of weeks, the Hara will celebrate its silver anniversary as a museum (1979-2004) and what better way to do so than with a show about families?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 3, 2003
Take a closer look
Contemporary art sure can be divisive. Every year, the British press fills with angry opinion pieces lambasting the finalists for that nation's Turner Prize. In the United States and elsewhere, citizens' groups regularly mobilize against the controversial in art exhibitions -- be it Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic nudes or Chris Ofili's paintings daubed with elephant dung. A lot of people, it is clear, think it very important that everyone should like all the art they see.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Nov 19, 2003
A helping handyman
Watching Didier Courbot at work, you would probably think he was a nut.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Nov 5, 2003
The goldfish have finally had enough
Long a darling of the Japanese photography scene, Mika Ninagawa's latest exhibition, "Liquid Dreams," brings a riot of color to the Parco Museum in Shibuya. Ninagawa has always been fond of bright and bold hues. What is most surprising about her new work is her choice of subject matter. Although she has enjoyed great success with pictures of people and flowers in the past, this time around Ninagawa has turned her attention to, of all things, goldfish.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Oct 29, 2003
250 reasons to be happy, then some
I'm happy! The reason I'm happy is I love art, and this month a total of four -- yes four -- new contemporary art spaces opened in Tokyo.
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Oct 8, 2003
The future's so pink ...
In preparation for the arrival of Junichiro Koizumi, George Bush, Vladamir Putin and 18 other world leaders for the Oct. 20-21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Bangkok, Thai authorities have swooped down on the city. They have rounded up and shipped out hundreds of Cambodian beggars, thousands of stray dogs and tens of thousands of homeless people. The red lights of the Pat Pong and Soi Cowboy districts have been dimmed, and, if you believe some of the talk, brown patches in the parks alongside official motorcade routes have been painted green to look like grass.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Sep 24, 2003
Ito's embroidered art has got it all stitched up
The Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art in Shibuya is one of Japan's most respected private museums. Now, it seems, the beautiful, Mario Botta-designed art space has also become one of the country's leading supporters of young artists.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Sep 10, 2003
Enjoying the view from up on high
Last Wednesday, in the early evening, a tremendous thunderstorm crashed through Tokyo. There were blackouts, the lightning started fires, even the rain-or-shine Yamanote Line was shut down for three hours. Meanwhile, Yumiko Okui was putting up her show at the Kenji Taki Gallery in Shinjuku.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Aug 27, 2003
Tabaimo pulls ahead of 'fun art' pack
Although she has only recently turned 28, I am starting to think Tabaimo is one of Japan's most important artists. Here's why.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Aug 13, 2003
'Girl! Girl! Girl!' just wants to have fun
I've been looking forward to the new show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Trying not to sound sexist here, there was more than a little appeal in the show's title: "Girl! Girl! Girl!" I guess I'm just a regular guy, sweltering through summer, looking for some easy distraction. A Steve McQueen film festival, or an exhibition titled "Beer! Beer! Beer!" would have had a similar effect.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jul 23, 2003
The high priestess of rock 'n' roll 'n' . . . art
Patti Smith has shown her drawings and paintings before in Japan -- some years ago at the Museum Eki in Kyoto. But it is a safe bet that most of her Japanese fans are more familiar with Smith the rock'n'roller, that sexily disheveled female version of Mick Jagger who kicked out prepunk jams from New York City during the 1970s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jul 9, 2003
At play in the (magnetic) fields of Roppongi
With August just a few weeks away, the new Roppongi Complex group of galleries is running its last shows before the O-bon break and the October debut of their raison d'etre (location-wise) -- the Mori Art Museum, which will be Japan's largest contemporary art space.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jun 25, 2003
Under the spell of Tiki, the Polynesian man-god
I'm in a trendy Berlin eatery. The chef has sat down at my table and is expounding on archeology, and everything he is saying is wrong.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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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.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
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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