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Art Space Tokyo: An intimate guide to the Tokyo art world

News, Reviews, Reports

AUGUST ARTICLE ROUND-UP

Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.

Reviews

Ai Yamaguchi and Pip & Pop at Spiral Garden [ArtAsiaPacific]

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale at various venues in Niigata [Artforum]

“Gutai: The Spirit of an Era” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Artforum]

Masako Ando at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artforum]

Yoko Ono at the Serpentine Gallery, London [Artforum]

“Gutai: The Spirit of an Era” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Artscape International]

“Tema Hima: The Art of Living in Tohoku” at 21_21 Design Sight [Artscape International]

Takayuki Yamamoto at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco & the Takamatsu City Museum of Art [Artscape International]

Yoko Ono at the Serpentine Gallery, London [Artwrit]

Simon Fujiwara at Tate St Ives [Frieze]

Tomoyoshi Murayama at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [Frieze]

Hideki Nakajima at the Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima [Japan Times]

“The Cosmos as Metaphor” at Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto & Hotel Anteroom, Kyoto [Japan Times]

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale at various venues in Niigata [Japan Times]

Andrew Burns and Brook Andrew at the Australia House in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale [Japan Times]

“Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary Art” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale at various venues in Niigata [Spoon & Tamago]

“Gutai: The Spirit of an Era” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Wall Street Journal]

Interviews

Yayoi Kusama [ART iT]

Yayoi Kusama [Huffington Post]

Naoya Hatakeyama [SF Gate]

Features

• Collector Daisuke Miyatsu [Artinfo]

• Daido Moriyama’s color photographs [ART iT]

Nobuyoshi Araki [Huffington Post]

Yoko Ono and Kenji Yanobe at the Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima [Japan Times]

“Tokyo 1955–1970” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York [Japan Times]

• Yukinori Yanagi’s Banzai Corner [Spoon & Tamago]

News

Nara as Businessman (Original blog post) [Adrian Favell’s blog on ART iT]

Yoshitomo Nara’s list of objections to Favell’s text (English) [ART iT]

Yoshitomo Nara’s list of objections to Favell’s text (Japanese) [ART iT]

• Tetsuya Ozaki’s commentary on Favell/Nara dispute (Japanese) [Realtokyo]

• Toyo Ito’s Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale awarded best pavilion [Designboom]

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Art Space Tokyo is a 272 page guide to the Tokyo art world produced and published by Craig Mod & PRE/POST.

It was originally published in 2008 by Chin Music Press.

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