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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.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” [Artforum]
• Makoto Aida at Mizuma Art Gallery [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Toyoshige Watanabe at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura [Japan Times]
• William Eggleston at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Fergus Freehily at Misako & Rosen [Japan Times]
• “From the 11th Chinese National Art Exhibition 2009: Contemporary Fine Art from China” at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Japan Times]
• Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “Open Space 2010” at the NTT Inter Communication Center [TAB]
• Genichiro Inokuma at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [TAB]
• Ritsuko Yamashita at hpgrp Gallery Tokyo [TAB]
• Seiichi Furuya at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Pawel Jaszczuk at Zen Foto Gallery [TAB]
• “Where Is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Aki Sasamoto [ART iT]
• William Eggleston [Japan Times]
• David Elliott [Japan Times]
Features
• Wilhelm Sasnal [ART iT]
• Jean Fabre [ART iT]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• Teratotera Art Project [TAB]
Obits
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [ART iT]
• Remembering Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [The Guardian]
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.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• Yoshiji Takehara at Gallery MA [Artscape]
• “Plastic Memories – To Illuminate ‘Now’” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi: Alternative Humanities” [Japan Times]
• Ryoichi Yamazaki at Nakaochiai Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Akihisa Hirata x SHIMABUROS.” at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto [Japan Times]
• “Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Mika Ninagawa at G/P Gallery [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Aleksandr Rodchenko + Varvara Stepanova: Visions of Contructivism” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum [TAB]
Interviews
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 2) [ART iT]
• Nobuyoshi Araki [Japan Times]
• Kohei Nawa [Studio Banana TV]
• Noriyuki Haraguchi [TAB]
Features
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape]
• Toshiki Okada [Realtokyo]
Obits
• Ichiro Haryu (1925–2010) [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
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.
Reviews
• “Design-Conscious Apartments Then and Now”at Misawa Homes Seminar Hall [Artscape]
• John Lurie at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Art Fair Tokyo [TAB]
• Ryoko Kimura at Kido Press [TAB]
Interviews
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 2) [ART iT]
Features
• Yoshinari Nishio in Nairobi [Artscape]
• Boat People Association and Tokyo Artpoint Project [Artscape]
• The Galapagosi-isation of the Japanese art scene [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Masato Nakamura and Takashi Murakami [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Teppei Kaneuji, Koki Tanaka and Tatzu Nishi [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Fram Kitagawa and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Shinji Kohmoto [Japan Times]
• Johnny Walker and the Bacon Prize [Japan Times]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
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.
Reviews
• “Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape]
• Hisashi Hojin at Prismic Gallery [Artscape]
• Taiji Kiyokawa at Kiyokawa Taiji Memorial Gallery [Japan Times]
• Takuya Tsukahara at Syadai Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Life=Works=Projects” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Chronicle 1945, 1951, 1957: A Revision of Postwar Japanese Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “MAM Project: Jules de Balincourt” at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Book Review: “Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s” [NYAB]
• Yasumasa Morimura at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Life=Works=Projects” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• MOT Annual 2010 - Neo-ornamentalism at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Nara Yoshitomo [ART iT]
• Dan Graham [Japan Times]
• Yasumasa Morimura [Japan Times]
• TABuzz #12:Tony
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.
Reviews
• Teppei Kaneuji at ShugoArts [Artforum]
• Miwa Yanagi at Rat Hole Gallery [Artforum]
• “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” at the Mori Art Museum [ART iT]
• Teppei Kaneuji at ShugoArts [Frieze]
• Tsuyoshi Tane and Teppei Kaneuji at Taka Ishii Gallery and ShugoArts [Japan Times]
• G-tokyo art fair [Japan Times]
• “Garden of Painting” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• Jack McLean, Patrick Tomlinson and Natasha Rees at RBR Gallery [Japan Times]
• Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Chise Shimomura at Musée F [TAB]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at Mujin-to Production [TAB]
• Tomoaki Suzuki at SCAI The Bathhouse [TAB]
Features
• A tour of Tokyo’s galleries [The Guardian]
• Art and social change in Japan [Tactical Museum]
• “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” (Part 1) at the Mori Art Museum [We Make Money Not Art]
• “Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love” (Part 2) at the Mori Art Museum [We Make Money Not Art]
Interviews
• Miyake Saori [ART iT]
• Toshiki Okada [TAB]
Go Walkies!
The tireless philanthropists at Art Beat have just launched their iPhone apps for Tokyo and New York, which means you will never get lost on your way to an exhibition again!
As with the main sites themselves, you can browse hundreds of events by area, media, opening nights and user-rated popularity, but all with the added benefit of GPS.
The NY app is going for a discounted rate of $0.99 until the end of February, while the Tokyo app is priced at $1.99.
As a sign of how in-demand this service is, for the past week the Tokyo app has been in the top five of all paid apps on the Japan iTunes store!
Meanwhile, TAB continues its donation campaign. They’re nearly at the 500,000 yen mark, but that’s only one-third of the way to their target amount. If you haven’t already, please show your support to this essential goldmine of information.
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.
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.
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.
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
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round-up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
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
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round-up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
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
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round-up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
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.
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.
Reviews
• Ai Weiwei at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Kohei Nawa at Maison Hermès’ Le Forum Gallery [TAB]
• “Terrifying Girls School” film series at Laputa Cinema [TAB]
• “Stitch by Stitch” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum [TAB]
• “Musashino Art University 80th Anniversary exhibition” at Gallery αM [TAB]
• “Camino a la Modernidad: Masterpieces of Modern Mexican Painting” at the Setagaya Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Kosho Ito at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Koizumi Meiro at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Timothy Saccenti at Deisel Denim Gallery [Japan Times]
• Tomoko Konoike at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• DanDans at Chinzan-so Garden [Japan Times]
Interviews
• Jonathan Chandler [TAB]
• Andrea Hope [TAB]
• Mami Kataoka [ART iT]
• Ai Weiwei (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Ai Weiwei (Part 2) [ART iT]
Features
• Megumi Matsubara [TAB]
• Anthony Gormley at the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale< [Japan Times]
• Echigo-Tsumari Triennale [Japan Times]
• Ai Weiwei [Artforum Scene and Herd]
• The demise of Studio Voice magazine [RealTokyo]
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.
Reviews
• “Press Photographers’ Story” and “World Press Photo ‘09” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
• “Winter Garden: The Exploration of Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Gutai Art Association at the Venice Biennale [Japan Times]
• Yoko Ono awarded Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale [Japan Times]
• Satoshi Hashimoto & Kanako Hatashi at CAMP / Otto Mainzheim Gallery [Artscape]
• Ai Weiwei at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “GA International 2009” at GA Gallery [TAB]
• “Bones” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Miwa Yanagi at the Venice Biennale [ART iT]
Interviews
• Takahiro Yamaguchi [TAB]
• Minam Apang [TAB]
• Keisuke Narita [TAB]
• Sayaka Akiyama [TAB]
• Adam Pasion [TAB]
• TABuzz # 05: Oliver Watson
Features
• Cambodian artists in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site [Japan Times]
• Naoko Jin [Japan Times]
• Contemporary transportation in manga [TAB]
• Mail Art [TAB]
• Sound Gardening [TAB]
About & Community
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.
