Category: Art  

Lee Bul
Art

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

Apr 26, 2012 | One Comment | 1,014 views
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Cézanne: Paris and Provence
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A town-and-country look at the “father of modern painting”

Apr 12, 2012 | No Comments | 845 views
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Art Fair Tokyo
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Find your own way at this feast of variety

Mar 16, 2012 | One Comment | 2,174 views
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Jackson Pollock
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The first major Japan exhibition of the abstract superstar

Feb 29, 2012 | 3 Comments | 2,205 views
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Mirei Shigemori
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The Garden as Zen and Art at the Watarium

Feb 18, 2012 | No Comments | 1,131 views
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Irving Penn and Issey Miyake
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Creative synergy remembered at Tokyo’s temple of style

Dec 26, 2011 | One Comment | 1,977 views
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New Era of Tokyo Fashion
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An entertaining show tries to reboot Japan’s lost fashion edge

Nov 30, 2011 | No Comments | 1,740 views
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The Phillips Collection
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America but (sadly) not as we know it, at the NACT

Nov 1, 2011 | No Comments | 1,403 views
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Playing Among the Ruins
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Berlin cashes in on its cool with this Goethe Institute-sponsored show

Oct 4, 2011 | No Comments | 984 views
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Tsang Kin-Wah
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The Chinese artist brings his provocative installation to the Mori

Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments | 1,320 views
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Deconstructing Tokyo
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Get into architecture this fall, with a major symposium and related exhibitions

Sep 24, 2011 | One Comment | 3,612 views
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Taro Okamoto
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The second part of the 100th anniversary show honors the legacy of an artistic phenomenon

Sep 7, 2011 | No Comments | 1,898 views
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Transfiguration
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Berlin-based Leiko Ikemura's first retrospective in Japan

Sep 6, 2011 | No Comments | 867 views
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Power Spots of Edo
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A visual tour of Edo-era spiritual destinations

Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments | 1,403 views
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Art Scope 2009-2011: Invisible Memories
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The fruit of a collaboration between young German and Japanese artists

Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments | 723 views
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Leo Rubinfien: Wounded Cities
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Chicago artist presents portraits of traumatized urbanites

Aug 18, 2011 | No Comments | 1,172 views
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces
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Impressionism with frills

Aug 5, 2011 | No Comments | 2,290 views
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Ming Wong
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Mixed-up movie magic delights at the Hara

Jul 28, 2011 | No Comments | 808 views
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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An irrepressible ukiyo-e talent shines at the Ota

Jul 14, 2011 | No Comments | 1,604 views
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Design Festa
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Tokyo’s biggest art event channels sympathy for an injured nation

Jun 2, 2011 | One Comment | 2,969 views
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Forest and Art
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The Teien takes us for a mysterious walk in the woods

Apr 28, 2011 | No Comments | 2,571 views
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MOT Annual 2011
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Tokyo’s emptiest art venue stages a requiem for the voiceless

Apr 7, 2011 | One Comment | 2,901 views
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Le Surrealisme
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The NACT takes a short-sighted, Francophone look at an international art movement

Mar 10, 2011 | One Comment | 2,169 views
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300 Years of Meissen
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The Suntory ramps it up with some rocking rococo ceramics

Feb 10, 2011 | No Comments | 2,147 views
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Motohiko Odani
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A rising star astounds with a death-obsessed show at the Mori

Jan 13, 2011 | 4 Comments | 3,597 views
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Hoki Museum
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A new shrine to real excellence opens in Chiba

Nov 25, 2010 | 2 Comments | 6,438 views
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Edgar Degas
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The Yokohama Museum of Art freshens up an old master

Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments | 3,035 views
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Sensing Nature
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The Mori scales up a show of small ideas to fill a big space

Sep 30, 2010 | No Comments | 3,111 views
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Swinging London
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As the John Lennon Museum winds down, MOMA Saitama revives the '60s

Sep 2, 2010 | No Comments | 3,464 views
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The Birth of Chinese Civilization
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An extensive exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum leads straight to the souvenir shop

Aug 5, 2010 | No Comments | 2,595 views
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William Eggleston
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A photo legend snaps Paris and Kyoto minus the clichés

Jul 22, 2010 | 2 Comments | 3,132 views
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Makoto Aida + Hisashi Tenmyouya + Akira Yamaguchi
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It’s nihonga, Jim, but not as we know it

Jul 8, 2010 | No Comments | 5,389 views
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Post-Impressionism
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A wide-ranging portmanteau show unpacks its wares at the NACT

Jun 24, 2010 | No Comments | 3,197 views
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Tale of Tales
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MoMA Hayama pays tribute to Russian animation legends

Jun 10, 2010 | No Comments | 1,998 views
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Where is Architecture?
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MoMAT poses itself a question… and gets lost looking for the answer

May 27, 2010 | No Comments | 2,689 views
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Rodchenko & Stepanova: Visions of Constructivism
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There are Reds under the beds at Meguro’s palatial Teien Art Museum

May 13, 2010 | No Comments | 7,181 views
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Manet & Modern Paris
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A new venue in Marunouchi reboots the past with the first modernist

Apr 29, 2010 | No Comments | 1,994 views
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Roppongi Crossing
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The Mori’s annual show ticks boxes and encourages lunatics

Apr 15, 2010 | No Comments | 2,495 views
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Tokyo Art Fair
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The annual event offers a time to indulge your senses and trust your taste

Apr 1, 2010 | 4 Comments | 17,816 views
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Galleria Borghese
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Purity and profanity on loan from Rome

Mar 18, 2010 | No Comments | 3,171 views
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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A major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT

Mar 4, 2010 | 3 Comments | 6,348 views
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Cecil Balmond
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An architectural genius gets placed on a pedestal at Tokyo Opera City

Feb 18, 2010 | One Comment | 3,652 views
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Tabaimo
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A leading contemporary artist dissects Japan’s “lost generation”

Feb 4, 2010 | No Comments | 2,944 views
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The Power of Dogu
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A riddle wrapped up in an enigma inside the TNM

Jan 21, 2010 | No Comments | 4,710 views
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Zeshin Shibata
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The lusciousness of lacquer delights at the Mitsui

Jan 7, 2010 | No Comments | 1,981 views
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Medicine and Art
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A mixed show at the Mori unleashes morbid musings

Dec 17, 2009 | One Comment | 3,621 views
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Rebecca Horn
Art

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

Dec 3, 2009 | 3 Comments | 7,755 views
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Treasures of The Habsburg Monarchy
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The National Art Center, Tokyo relives memories of European art

Nov 19, 2009 | No Comments | 2,261 views
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Heritage of the Roman Empire
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The NMWA asks, "What did the Romans ever do for us?"

Nov 5, 2009 | One Comment | 2,999 views
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Tibetan Treasures
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Buddhist art cries freedom from behind the Bamboo Curtain

Oct 22, 2009 | 3 Comments | 5,866 views
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Henri Riviere
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France’s "Little Hokusai" gets the star treatment in Hayama

Oct 8, 2009 | No Comments | 4,542 views
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Someno Collection
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Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National Museum of Modern Art

Sep 24, 2009 | 2 Comments | 3,057 views
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Ai Weiwei
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The Mori presents drab minimalism and toothless iconoclasm

Sep 10, 2009 | 2 Comments | 9,704 views
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Taoism Art
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The yin and yang of art are little in evidence at this uninspiring show

Aug 28, 2009 | No Comments | 2,508 views
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