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APRIL 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
• “Breathing Atolls: Japanese Art in the Maldives at the National Art Gallery, Male’ [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Lee Bul at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• Ken Nakazawa at Ando Gallery [Artscape International]
• “How Physical” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Frieze]
• Lee Bul at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Jackson Pollock at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Roppongi Art Night [Japan Times]
• Turning Around” at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• “Turning Around” at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Katsuhiro Otomo at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [TAB]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
Interviews
• Shingo Francis [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Kishio Suga [ART iT]
Features
• Erina Matsui [Adrian Favell’s blog on ART iT]
• The Adachi Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Sueo Mitsuma and Japanese art in Beijing [Japan Times]
• Lee Bul [Realtokyo]
News
• Architect Ryue Nishizawa recognized with AIJ Prize 2012 [ART iT]
MARCH 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
• “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” [Artforum]
• Chim↑Pom at Project Fulfill Art Space [Artforum]
• “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” [Artnet]
• Yayoi Kusama at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• “Cosmic Travelers – Toward the Unknown” at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Artscape International]
• Akinori Matsumoto at BankART Studio NYK [Artscape International]
• G-tokyo Contemporary Art Fair at the Mori Arts Center [Japan Times]
• “March 11 seen through the eyes of comic artists from all over the world: Magnitude Zero” at the Kyoto International Manga Museum [Japan Times]
• Kota Takeuchi at XYZ Collective [Japan Times]
• “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” [LA Times]
• “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture” at Japan Society [NY Times]
• Misaki Kawai at the Children’s Museum of the Arts [NY Times]
• Misaki Kawai at the Children’s Museum of the Arts [NY Times]
• Aleksandr Rodchenko at Ginza Graphic Gallery [TAB]
• Ken Okiishi at Take Ninagawa [TAB]
• Art Fair Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum [TAB]
Interviews
• Paramodel [Art Radar Asia]
• How the nuclear disaster roused Chim↑Pom [The Economist]
• Makoto Nomura [TAB]
• Roppongi Art Night [TAB]
• Yusuke Asai at Yoyogi Park [TAB]
• Tadashi Kawamata [TAB]
News
• ICP to honor Daido Moriyama for lifetime achievement [ART iT]
• Curator Sayoko Nakahara awarded 2012 H+F curatorial grant [Art Radar Asia]
• Minoru Mori (1934–2012) [NY Times]
• Hermès taps Hiroshi Sugimoto [Spoon & Tamago]
JANUARY 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
• The Louvre DNP Museum Lab at the DNP Gotanda Building [Artscape International]
• Mirei Shigemori at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]
• Takashi Homma at Blind Gallery [Artscape International]
• Fuyuko Matsui at Yokohama Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• On Kawara at David Zwirner Gallery [Spoon & Tamago]
• “Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition 2012” at BankArt Studio NYK [TAB]
Features
• Mono-ha Moment [Art in America]
• Takashi Murakami rips into “Cool Japan” [Artinfo]
• Ryo Yamada’s Kumamoto Artopolis Kahoku Project [Designboom]
• Ten Shows to mark on the 2012 calendar [Japan Times]
• A rough guide to museums and galleries that are fun for kids [TAB]
News
• Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) [ART iT]
DECEMBER 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
• Tomoko Yoneda at Shugoarts [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Art Radar Asia]
• “Art Scope 2009–2011: invisible Memories” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow – New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Artscape International]
• Jikken Kobo at Bétonsalon, Paris [Frieze]
• Kaori Watanabe at Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Makoto Aida at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo [Japan Times]
• Rika Noguchi at the Izu Photo Museum [Japan Times]
• “311 Lost Homes” at Gallery Ma [Japan Times]
• POPCORART at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• Yoko Ono at Gallery 360˚ and Tomio Koyama Gallery [TAB]
• Tokyo FILMeX 2011 at Yurakucho Asahi Hall [TAB]
Features
• Things Worth Remembering in 2011 by Erimi Fujihara [ART iT]
• Things Worth Remembering in 2011 by the editors [ART iT]
• Lieko Shiga [ART iT]
• Simon Starling / Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) [ART iT]
• Mariko Mori at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media [Designboom]
• Kazuyo Sejima [Domus]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Domus]
• Sou Fujimoto [Domus]
• Rue Nishizawa [Domus]
• Seeking solace in artistic responses to March 11 [Japan Times]
• 2011 – The Year in Review [TAB]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
News
• Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) [ART iT]
• Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) [ART iT]
NOVEMBER 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
• Chu Enoki at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• Motoi Yamamoto at the Hakone Open-Air Museum [Artscape International]
• Kenji Yanobe at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum [Japan Times]
• Alyson Shotz at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Irving Penn and Issey Miyake at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Villa Tokyo in the Kyobashi, Nihombashi & Kudanshita area [TAB]
Interviews
• Sputniko! [TAB]
• Shozo Ichiyama, program director of Tokyo FILMeX [TAB]
Features
• Tadashi Kawamata [ART iT]
• Florian Busch [Japan Times]
• The Teratotera Festival in Kichijoji [TAB]
• Christan Marclay’s “The Clock” at the Yokohama Triennale [Realtokyo]
OCTOBER 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
• “Metabolism, The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• “Shin Minatomura: A Small City for the Future” at BankART [Artscape International]
• Chim↑Pom at The Container [Japan Times]
• “Berlin 2000–2011: Playing Among the Ruins” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Tadao Ando at Gallery GA [Japan Times]
• “Artgig Tokyo: Mummy Im Scarrred!” at Tamai Hospital [Japan Times]
• “Metabolism, The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Leo Rubinfien at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Alyson Shotz at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Rem Koolhaas and Fumio Nanjo on Metabolism [TAB]
Features
• Art Center Ongoing [Artscape International]
• Japanese arts course opens door to foreigners [Japan Times]
• Project Fukushima [Realtokyo]
SEPTEMBER 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
• “House Inside City Outside House: Tokyo Metabolizing” at Tokyo Opera City Art Museum [Artforum]
• Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Artforum]
• Seiichi Furuya at Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin [Artscape International]
• Art Fair Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum [Artscape International]
• “House Inside City Outside House – Tokyo Metabolizing” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Artscape International]
• Hiroh Kikai at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Artscape International]
• ChimPom at Mujin-to Production [Japan Times]
• Arata Isozaki at Misa Shin Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Metabolism: The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
Interviews
• Miwa Yanagi [ART iT]
Features
• The relationship between Japan’s corporate sector and the art world [TAB]
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
• Kohei Nawa at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Artforum]
• Tadaaki Kuwayama at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at the Mori Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Chim↑Pom at Mujin-to Production [Artscape International]
• Art Fair Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum [Art Newspaper]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Scottish National Museum of Art [Culture 24]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Scottish National Museum of Art [Guardian]
• “Café in Mito” at Art Tower Mito [Japan Times]
• Yayoi Kusama at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Tsubasa Kato at SNAC and Kiba Park [TAB]
• The Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [TAB]
• Yoko Ono talk at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Koki Tanaka at Aoyama | Meguro [TAB]
• The Dojima River Biennale [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim Museum [VOA]
Interviews
• Yoko Ono [Boing Boing]
• Kohei Nawa [Japan Times]
• Tsuneo Enari at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Motoi Yamamoto [Japan Times]
Features
• Postcard from Japan [Frieze]
• Video on Chim↑Pom [Frontline / PBS]
• Video of photographs washed away by tsunami being restored and returned to their owners [Guardian]
• Quakes and Arts IV [Realtokyo]
• Molten glass pyrographs by Etsuko Ichikawa [Spoon & Tamago]
• Manga, sex and censorship [Yomiuri]
JULY 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.
• “War Through the Eyes of Children: With the Help of Barefoot Gen” at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum [Artscape International]
• “Making of the Tokyo Sky Tree” at Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) [Artscape International]
• “Art of Photographing the Child” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Rong Rong and Inri at Shiseido Gallery [Japan Times]
• “On the Road” at the National Museum of Modern Art [Japan Times]
• Ryoko Takahashi at Gallery Momo Ryogoku [TAB]
• Photo report on Art Fair Tokyo [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [AM New York]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [Art in America]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [The Financial Times]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [The Ranunculus]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [NY Times]
Features
• Recent exhibitions and publications about postwar Japanese art: Whose Modernism is it Anyway? [The Brooklyn Rail]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Huffington Post]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Spotlight on artists at Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
• The reconstruction of Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari [Japan Times]
• Quakes and Arts III on Chim↑Pom and their reaction to the nuclear crisis [Realtokyo]
• Chim↑Pom and guerrilla/graffiti art [Realtokyo]
• A Summer Night “Delusion” Tour with the Moso Café [TAB]
News
• Public to benefit from new art indemnity system [Japan Times]
JUNE 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
• Xavier Veilhan at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Artforum]
• “NOART” at Taka Ishii Gallery [Artscape International]
• Masatsune Matsumura at Gallery A4 [Artscape International]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• LG Williams at the Container [Japan Times]
• Takashi Hinoda at Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• LG Williams at the Container [TAB]
• Kohei Nawa at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• “French Window” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Chim↑Pom at SNAC [TAB]
Interviews
• Jun Igarashi [Japan Times]
• Kim Sooja [ART iT]
Feature
• Tsuyoshi Ozawa & Relational Art [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Yukihiro Taguchi [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Tabaimo [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• “Inside Out” project [Japan Times]
• “Quakes and Arts II” [Realtokyo]
News
• Chim↑Pom inserts their own panel about nuclear disaster into Taro Okamoto’s mural in Shibuya Station [Asahi]
MAY 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
• Jack McLean at the Container [Artforum]
• Yasuo Higa at the Izu Photo Museum [Artscape International]
• Firoz Mahmud at Ota Fine Arts [TAB]
Features
• Yuken Teruya [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Quakes and Arts [Realtokyo]
APRIL 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
• “Happy Mind – My Pleasure” at Misako & Rosen [ART iT]
• “Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [ART iT]
• Takehiko Higuchi at the Hiratsuka Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• “Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• “Kuramata Shiro, Ettore Sottsass” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• Sakae Ozawa at Mori Yu Gallery [TAB]
• Iichiro Tanaka at Yuka Sasahara Gallery [TAB]
• Tomoko Konoike at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
Features
• Art Charities for the Tohoku Disaster [Artscape International]
• Tadashi Kawamata [TAB]
• Third Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions [TAB]
News
• Koji Taki (1928–2011) [ART iT]
MARCH 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.
Articles Relating to the March 11 Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake
• Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake Hits Japanese Art Community [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Japan Relief Efforts [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Ways to Contribute to Earthquake Relief [ART iT]
• Tokyo’s art scene struggles to resume” [Japan Times]
• Place Your Bid to Help Japan [Japan Times]
• Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake and Tokyo Art World [TAB]
Reviews
• “Too Far To See” at the Yokohama Museum of Art [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Xavier Veilhan” at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Artforum]
• “The New Snapshot: Contemporary Japanese Photography, vol.9: Radiant Moments” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Artscape International]
• “Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women” atArt Tower Mito [ART iT]
• Jack McLean at The Container [Japan Times]
• Jack McLean at The Container [TAB]
• “Surrealism: An Exhibition Organized With Artworks From The Centre Pompidou Collection” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Toyo Ito [ART iT]
• Kozo Miyoshi [TAB]
Obits
FEBRUARY 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
• Yasumasa Morimura at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• “Global Ends: Towards the Beginning” at Gallery Ma [Artscape International]
• Reikisai Kobayashi at the Tobacco & Salt Museum [Artscape International]
• Tadasu Takamine at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Torawo Nakagawa at Kodama Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• “Creative Fantasista” at Vacant [Japan Times]
• “How is the World Engaging with Contemporary Asian Art?” Symposium at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Paule Saviano at Gallery éf [Japan Times]
• Shindo Tsuji at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Be Alive! – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at SCAI the Bathhouse [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Yutaka Sone [ART iT]
• Motohiko Odani [TAB]
Features
• Tomoo Gokita Studio Visit [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Additional Photos from Tomoo Gokita Studio Visit [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Outsider Calligraphy [ART iT]
• Taiji Matsue (Part II) [ART iT]
• G-tokyo Contemporary Art Fair [Japan Times]
• Shigeo Goto and the Tokyo Frontline Art Fair at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• Art and Theater [Realtokyo]
• The Nagoya commercial gallery scene [TAB]
• Festival/Tokyo [TAB]
News
• New Gallery Building Opens in Roppongi [ArtAsiaPacific]
ArtAsiaPacific Magazine relaunches its website
ArtAsiaPacific, the leading publication on contemporary art in Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East, relaunched its website this week.
The new site—designed by LinkedBy Air, the team behind the Whitney Museum site’s relaunch last year—makes dozens of past articles available for free, including many on contemporary Japanese art.
The bimonthly magazine will continue to release selected articles with each issue, and there will be regular uploads of web-exclusive reviews, video interviews, news reports and blog posts. Meanwhile, the archives, which currently go back to 2007, will grow over time.
Here is a compilation of links to the articles on contemporary Japanese art currently available on the site. As the 2011–2007 span of the archives happens to coincide with when I started contributing to the magazine from Tokyo and then moved to New York to become a full-time editor, you’ll notice that a chunk of them are my own!
Features
• Daido Moriyama: “Out of the Darkness” by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 70, Sept/Oct 2010]
• Taboos in Postwar Japanese Art: Mutually Assured Decorum by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 65, Sept/Oct 2009]
• Lee Ufan: Illusions and Interrelationships by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 62, Mar/Apr 2009]
• Makoto Aida: No More War; Save Water; Don’t Pollute the Sea by Andrew Maerkle [AAP 59, Jul/Aug 2008]
• Yoko Ono: The Artist in Her Unfinished Avant-Garden by HG Masters [AAP 58, May/Jun 2008]
Essays
• Institutional growth and diversification in the Tokyo art scene: “Living in A Beautiful Japan” by Roger McDonald [AAP 53, May/Jun 2007]
Reviews
• Ryoji Ikeda: “+/- [The Inifinite Between 0 and 1]” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, by Kenichi Kondo [AAP 64, Jul/Aug 2009]
• “Into the Atomic Sunshine” at Daikanyama Hillside Forum by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 61, Nov/Dec 2008]
• Daido Moriyama: “Retrospective 1965–2005 / Hawaii” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 60, Sept/Oct 2008]
News
• Controversy over Takashi Murakami’s exhibition at the Château de Versailles by Jina Valentine [AAP 71, Nov/Dec 2010]
• Controversy over Seattle Art Museum guard altering a Yoko Ono work by Rebecca Close [AAP 66, Nov/Dec 2009]
• Yoshitomo Nara’s arrest for writing graffiti in the NYC subway by Hanae Ko [AAP 63, May/Jun 2009]
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A place to keep abreast of Art Space Tokyo related news, reviews, events and updates.
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.
