News, Reviews, Reports
JANUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Reviews
• Kosuke Ichikawa at Foil Gallery [Artforum]
• Rei Naito at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura [ART iT]
• “8 Days – Beuys in Japan” at Art Tower Mito [ART iT]
• Tabaimo at the Yokohama Museum of Art [ART iT]
• “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” at the Mori Art Museum [Artscape]
• “Architecture of the Future” at Mistubishi-Jisho Artium [Artscape]
• “No Man’s Land” at the former French Embassy [Artscape]
• “No Man’s Land” at the former French Embassy [Japan Times]
• “The Outline: The Unseen Outline of Things” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• Cecil Balmond at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Ihei Kimura and Henri Cartier Bresson at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• “Paintings by Four Artists” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Nagisa Oshima at the National Film Center [TAB]
• Ihei Kimura and Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Haruo Mitsuta at Radi-um [TAB]
• Motohiko Odani at Maison Hermès’ Le Forum Gallery [TAB]
• G-tokyo 2010 art fair at the Mori Arts Center [TAB]
Interviews
• Nobuyoshi Araki [ART iT]
• Yang Fudong [Japan Times]
• Cheungvogi architectural practice [TAB]
• Fumiko Imano [TAB]
And your Murakami Moment of the month…
Keep the Information Flowing
Tokyo Art Beat recently launched an appeal for donations to help it stay afloat in 2010.
TAB is a nonprofit organization, so much of its activities are realized only through the generosity of dozens of volunteers. But the site simply cannot exist without revenue to support its core team of five paid staff. These are the people who keep TAB up to date, adding and translating information about the hundreds of art, design, architecture and fashion events taking place every week.
This cause hits close to home for me, because I know how much work these people put into keeping TAB running—I was a translator and editor there for nearly three years. On top of the event listings TAB’s staff works on commissioning and distributing limited-edition artist T-shirts, organizing events, and publishing a bi-monthly art map that you can pick up all over the city. These people live and breathe the Tokyo art scene and they want nothing more than to make it easier for you to find your way in.
I just made a donation and it was encouraging to see the donation bar jump up a decent amount within 24 hours, showing that there are other people out there who care. If you’re passionate about contemporary art in Japan, please, please keep the information flowing and give these brilliant people a boost.
Snow Magazine Launches
Following weeks of dropping hints and teasers on his blog, long-time Tokyo-based design writer and editor Jean Snow has finally launched his new online magazine.
Snow magazine offers news and guest-columns covering the cultural landscape of Tokyo and Japan, as well as some syndicated content from the Néojaponisme web journal and Paper Sky magazine. And it’s a joy to look at!
It’s a much-needed successor to PingMag, the popular online design magazine that ceased publication with the recession.
Art Space Tokyo in 2010
This is running a little late maybe, but Happy New Year!
Where to in 2010?
The Art Space Tokyo blog was less dynamic in 2009 than I would have liked. My move from Tokyo to New York in January last year meant that I’ve had to run it as a bit of a skeleton service since then. I haven’t had the time to post weekly updates on art in Tokyo, so the best I could do was to keep compiling the monthly round-ups of links to exhibition reviews, artist interviews and feature articles.
These long lists of links may not be the most exciting things to receive on your RSS feed, but I think that in the long term this archiving of the main sources of information on the Tokyo art scene is a useful project, and one that isn’t being undertaken anywhere else.
In any case, Craig and I are working on new developments for AST in 2010, details of which we will bring to you over the next couple of months.
Until then, thank you for keeping your eye on AST, and please stay tuned for more!
DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Reviews
• Sandro Chia at the Italian Cultural Institute [TAB]
• “Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Taku Obata + Rei Aruga + Ken Hayashida at Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo [TAB]
• Christopher Bucklow at Emon Photo Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” at the Mori Art Museum” [Japan Times]
• Jean-Claude Wouters at Marunouchi Gallery [Japan Times]
• Kengo Kuma at Gallery Ma [Artscape]
• “CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama” [ART iT]
• The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale” at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum [ART iT]
Interviews
• TABuzz #11: Shai Ohayon
• SymbioticA [TAB]
• Rei Naito [TAB]
• Rei Naito [ART iT]
• Tabaimo [ART iT]
• Pipilotti Rist [ART iT]
• Thomas Ruff [ART iT]
• Olafur Eliasson [Japan Times]
Features
• Year in Review 2009 [TAB]
• Japanese artists at the Asia-Pacific Triennial [Japan Times]
• Changes in the financial landscape of Tokyo’s art scene during the 2000s [Japan Times]
• Lieko Shiga at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama [Artscape]
• Zenpukuji Park and Yokobo Art Space [Artscape]
... And your Murakami Moment of the month.
NOVEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Reviews
• Rebecca Horn at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• “Workshop Party” at Yuka Contemporary [TAB]
• “The Far Fog” at Vacant [TAB]
• “Tenth Tokyo Filmex” at Yurakucho Asahi Hall [TAB]
• Cao Fei at Shiseido Gallery [TAB]
• Rebecca Horn at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Jeon Joonho” at SCAI The Bathhouse [Artforum]
• Shinro Ohtake at Take Ninagawa [Artforum]
• Nakaya Fujiko + doubleNegatives Architecture at L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo [ART iT]
• Cao Fei at Shiseido Gallery [ART iT]
• 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum [ART iT]
• CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama [Tactical Museum]
Interviews
• TABuzz #09: Antonin Gaultier (Digiki) and Stanley Lieber
• TABuzz #10: DadaD
• Yuki Kimura [ART iT]
• Shinro Ohtake [ART iT]
• ShimaBros [ART iT]
• Yuki Kimura [ART iT]
• Pipilotti Rist [Japan Times]
Features
• Dispute at Yokohama CREAM Festival [Japan Times]
• The 21st-Century Kanazawa Museum [Artscape]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Izu Photo Museum [Artscape]
OCTOBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Reviews
• “Contemporary Japanese Architecture Seen from Abroad” at GA Gallery [Artscape]
• “In the Little Playground: Nobuyuki Hitsuda and His Students” at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Nagoya City Art Museum [Artscape]
• Misaki Kawai at Take Ninagawa [TAB]
• Tokyo Graphic Passport symposium [TAB]
• “Why Are Artists Poor?” lecture at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music [TAB]
• Chiharu Shiota at the Nizayama Forest Art Museum [ART iT]
• Tomoko Konoike at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [ART iT]
• Seiji Aruga at Radi-um [Artforum]
• “Light Streams” at Center for Cosmic Wonder” [Artforum]
• “Shadow – Exhibition Obsura” at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• “Hisho Art Award” at the Setagaya Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Izu Photo Museum [Japan Times]
• Vernon Panton at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
Interviews
• Mark Pearson, director of the newly opened Zen Photo Gallery [TAB]
• Cao Fei [Japan Times]
Features
• A profile of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Kengo Kuma’s Nezu Museum [Japan Times]
SEPTEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Reviews
• Jun Aoki at Taro Nasu Gallery [TAB]
• Noritake at Rocket [TAB]
• Chikako Hasegawa at Radi-um [TAB]
• “Travel” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• “The Light: Yoko Matsumoto / Rika Noguchi” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Tsuyoshi Ozawa at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Miwa Yanagi at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• Tokyo Photo” art fair [Japan Times]
• Jun Aoki at Taro Nasu Gallery [ART iT]
• Aiko Tezuka at Kenji Taki Gallery [ART iT]
• Martin Creed at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art [ART iT]
• Kosho Ito at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Artscape]
• “Before Architecture, After Architecture” at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Artscape]
• Echigo-Tsumari Triennale [Artscape]
• Meiro Koizumi at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• Jonathan Meese at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Artforum]
Interviews
• Shinro Ohtake [Japan Times]
• Lieko Shiga [ART iT]
• Kazuhiko Hachiya [ART iT]
• Tomoko Konoike [ART iT]
• Sara Dolatabadi [TAB]
TABuzz #07: Akihito Inui
TABuzz #08: Roger McDonald
Features
• Shinro Ohtake in Naoshima [Japan Times]
• Tokyo Photo” art fair [Art Info]
... And your Murakami Moment of the month.
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