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AUGUST ARTICLE ROUND-UP

Posted by Ashley Rawlings on Friday, August 31st 2012

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]