Art Dec 10, 2020
Captured history: A collection of milestones in early images of Japan
by Alice Gordenker
An exhibition of rare photographs gets a second chance to present the evolution of photography in Japan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
Art Jun 24, 2018
Masatoshi Naito: 'The other face' of Japan
by Martin Laflamme
When Masatoshi Naito first began researching Tohoku folklore, he expected to find places "haunted with a macabre atmosphere." Instead, he stumbled into a vivacious traditional society "filled with elderly women who throw boisterous bashes all night long."
Art Dec 13, 2016
Tokyo: photogenic to its very core
by John L. Tran
Care to take a guess what the new exhibition "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it's "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" and "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo." It ...
Art / Openings In Tokyo Nov 29, 2016
20 Year Anniversary: TOP Collection — Tokyo Tokyo and Tokyo
by Yuki Yamauchi
Until Jan. 29 This is the Tokyo Photographic Art (TOP) Museum's first exhibition of works drawn from its collection since it re-opened in September after two years of renovation. Formerly known as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, TOP boasts a vast collection of works, ...
Art Sep 6, 2016
Japan's TOP museum sees the big picture
by Alice Gordenker
After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo's best-known photography museum in Tokyo's fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new ...
Art Sep 6, 2016
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we still feel fine
by John L. Tran
Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Lost Human Genetic Archive," the inaugural exhibition for the reopening of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (now the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), is an erudite and elaborate exercise in gallows humor. The theme is the end of civilization and human life, ...
Art / Openings In Tokyo Aug 30, 2016
'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lost Human Genetic Archive'
by Mark Jarnes
Sept. 3-Nov. 13 For the opening exhibition of the rebranded Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (formerly the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography), acclaimed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto asks us to reflect on our way of life and how it affects the environment. The New York-based photographer's thought-provoking ...