Category: Art

More to Mucha at the Mori

May 8, 2013 | No Comments | 562 views

Ambitions downsized at Roppongi’s design bunker

Mar 26, 2013 | No Comments | 968 views

My big skinny Greek painting at Tokyo Met

Mar 18, 2013 | One Comment | 768 views

Enku’s Buddhas

Religion and art come together at the Tokyo National Museum

Mar 5, 2013 | No Comments | 678 views

Artist File 2013

Contemporary art with popular appeal at Roppongi’s NACT

Feb 13, 2013 | No Comments | 1,223 views

Takao Trick Art Museum

Take your eyeballs on a visual joyride

Jan 29, 2013 | One Comment | 2,058 views

Going beyond the photographic

Jan 16, 2013 | 3 Comments | 4,363 views

Strange new forms of life and art take shape at the ICC

Jan 2, 2013 | No Comments | 1,691 views

Japanese Modern

A turbulent century of Japanese art at a renewed MOMAT

Dec 6, 2012 | No Comments | 3,222 views

Free exhibition recalling Japanese-American wartime experience

Nov 20, 2012 | 2 Comments | 1,728 views

Treasures from Sacred Izumo

Japan’s Shinto legacy at the TNM

Nov 13, 2012 | No Comments | 1,329 views

Hisashi Tenmyouya “Rhyme”

Neo-Nihonga retro-yakuza pastiche

Oct 24, 2012 | No Comments | 1 views

James Ensor in Context

A touch of madness at the Sompo

Oct 15, 2012 | No Comments | 1,304 views

Ayami Nishimura by Rankin

Make up for art at Diesel

Sep 13, 2012 | No Comments | 1,691 views

Coming back to kawaii in Yokohama

Aug 29, 2012 | No Comments | 2,215 views

Edward Burne-Jones

A Pre-Raphaelite Master in Tokyo’s Little London

Aug 1, 2012 | No Comments | 1,579 views

Gosse de Peintre

Jul 23, 2012 | No Comments | 1,647 views

Omiya Bonsai Art Museum

Art and nature battle it out in Saitama

Jun 14, 2012 | No Comments | 2,689 views

Got yourself a living doll

Jun 1, 2012 | 2 Comments | 21,465 views

Sato Sakura Museum Tokyo

Tokyo’s newest museum brings Nihonga to Nakameguro

May 30, 2012 | No Comments | 1,748 views

The Mori shows the feminism and femininity of the avant-garde Korean artist

Apr 26, 2012 | 3 Comments | 2,933 views

Cézanne: Paris and Provence

A town-and-country look at the “father of modern painting”

Apr 12, 2012 | One Comment | 1,830 views

Find your own way at this feast of variety

Mar 16, 2012 | One Comment | 3,364 views

Jackson Pollock

The first major Japan exhibition of the abstract superstar

Feb 29, 2012 | 3 Comments | 3,924 views

Mirei Shigemori

The Garden as Zen and Art at the Watarium

Feb 18, 2012 | No Comments | 1,949 views

Irving Penn and Issey Miyake

Creative synergy remembered at Tokyo’s temple of style

Dec 26, 2011 | One Comment | 3,684 views

New Era of Tokyo Fashion

An entertaining show tries to reboot Japan’s lost fashion edge

Nov 30, 2011 | No Comments | 2,273 views

The Phillips Collection

America but (sadly) not as we know it, at the NACT

Nov 1, 2011 | No Comments | 2,251 views

Playing Among the Ruins

Berlin cashes in on its cool with this Goethe Institute-sponsored show

Oct 4, 2011 | No Comments | 1,299 views

The Chinese artist brings his provocative installation to the Mori

Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments | 1,703 views

Deconstructing Tokyo

Get into architecture this fall, with a major symposium and related exhibitions

Sep 24, 2011 | One Comment | 5,703 views

The second part of the 100th anniversary show honors the legacy of an artistic phenomenon

Sep 7, 2011 | No Comments | 2,883 views

Transfiguration

Berlin-based Leiko Ikemura's first retrospective in Japan

Sep 6, 2011 | No Comments | 1,292 views

Power Spots of Edo

A visual tour of Edo-era spiritual destinations

Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments | 2,004 views

Art Scope 2009-2011: Invisible Memories

The fruit of a collaboration between young German and Japanese artists

Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments | 1,105 views

Leo Rubinfien: Wounded Cities

Chicago artist presents portraits of traumatized urbanites

Aug 18, 2011 | No Comments | 1,652 views

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces

Impressionism with frills

Aug 5, 2011 | No Comments | 3,469 views

Mixed-up movie magic delights at the Hara

Jul 28, 2011 | No Comments | 1,248 views

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

An irrepressible ukiyo-e talent shines at the Ota

Jul 14, 2011 | No Comments | 2,182 views

Tokyo’s biggest art event channels sympathy for an injured nation

Jun 2, 2011 | One Comment | 3,544 views

The Teien takes us for a mysterious walk in the woods

Apr 28, 2011 | No Comments | 3,598 views

MOT Annual 2011

Tokyo’s emptiest art venue stages a requiem for the voiceless

Apr 7, 2011 | One Comment | 3,728 views

The NACT takes a short-sighted, Francophone look at an international art movement

Mar 10, 2011 | One Comment | 2,782 views

300 Years of Meissen

The Suntory ramps it up with some rocking rococo ceramics

Feb 10, 2011 | No Comments | 2,644 views

A rising star astounds with a death-obsessed show at the Mori

Jan 13, 2011 | 4 Comments | 4,868 views

A new shrine to real excellence opens in Chiba

Nov 25, 2010 | 2 Comments | 7,776 views

The Yokohama Museum of Art freshens up an old master

Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments | 3,634 views

The Mori scales up a show of small ideas to fill a big space

Sep 30, 2010 | No Comments | 3,754 views

Swinging London

As the John Lennon Museum winds down, MOMA Saitama revives the '60s

Sep 2, 2010 | No Comments | 4,390 views

The Birth of Chinese Civilization

An extensive exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum leads straight to the souvenir shop

Aug 5, 2010 | No Comments | 3,232 views

William Eggleston

A photo legend snaps Paris and Kyoto minus the clichés

Jul 22, 2010 | 2 Comments | 3,767 views

Makoto Aida + Hisashi Tenmyouya + Akira Yamaguchi

It’s nihonga, Jim, but not as we know it

Jul 8, 2010 | No Comments | 7,435 views

Post-Impressionism

A wide-ranging portmanteau show unpacks its wares at the NACT

Jun 24, 2010 | No Comments | 3,747 views

MoMA Hayama pays tribute to Russian animation legends

Jun 10, 2010 | No Comments | 2,468 views

Where is Architecture?

MoMAT poses itself a question… and gets lost looking for the answer

May 27, 2010 | No Comments | 3,320 views

Rodchenko & Stepanova: Visions of Constructivism

There are Reds under the beds at Meguro’s palatial Teien Art Museum

May 13, 2010 | No Comments | 11,614 views

Manet & Modern Paris

A new venue in Marunouchi reboots the past with the first modernist

Apr 29, 2010 | No Comments | 2,507 views

Roppongi Crossing

The Mori’s annual show ticks boxes and encourages lunatics

Apr 15, 2010 | No Comments | 3,085 views

The annual event offers a time to indulge your senses and trust your taste

Apr 1, 2010 | 5 Comments | 25,057 views

Galleria Borghese

Purity and profanity on loan from Rome

Mar 18, 2010 | No Comments | 3,988 views

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT

Mar 4, 2010 | 3 Comments | 8,212 views

An architectural genius gets placed on a pedestal at Tokyo Opera City

Feb 18, 2010 | One Comment | 4,629 views

A leading contemporary artist dissects Japan’s “lost generation”

Feb 4, 2010 | No Comments | 3,579 views

The Power of Dogu

A riddle wrapped up in an enigma inside the TNM

Jan 21, 2010 | No Comments | 7,386 views

The lusciousness of lacquer delights at the Mitsui

Jan 7, 2010 | No Comments | 2,624 views

Medicine and Art

A mixed show at the Mori unleashes morbid musings

Dec 17, 2009 | One Comment | 4,096 views

The edgy contemporary artist unfurls her sad wings of destiny at the MOT

Dec 3, 2009 | 3 Comments | 9,923 views

Treasures of The Habsburg Monarchy

The National Art Center, Tokyo relives memories of European art

Nov 19, 2009 | No Comments | 2,650 views

Heritage of the Roman Empire

The NMWA asks, "What did the Romans ever do for us?"

Nov 5, 2009 | One Comment | 3,606 views

Tibetan Treasures

Buddhist art cries freedom from behind the Bamboo Curtain

Oct 22, 2009 | 3 Comments | 7,101 views

France’s "Little Hokusai" gets the star treatment in Hayama

Oct 8, 2009 | No Comments | 6,046 views

Someno Collection

Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National Museum of Modern Art

Sep 24, 2009 | 2 Comments | 3,613 views

The Mori presents drab minimalism and toothless iconoclasm

Sep 10, 2009 | 2 Comments | 11,401 views

The yin and yang of art are little in evidence at this uninspiring show

Aug 28, 2009 | No Comments | 3,050 views

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