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DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP

Posted by Ashley Rawlings on Sunday, December 30th 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

• “Tokyo Art Meeting III: Art and Music — Search for New Synesthesia” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [ArtAsiaPacific]

• Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles [Artforum]

• “Pop-Up Mathaf” at the Mori Art Museum [ART iT]

• “How Physical” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [ART iT]

• Tadanori Yokoo at the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]

• Tadanori Yokoo at the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]

• Hideki Nakazawa at the Kichijoji Art Museum [Japan Times]

• Ben Shahn at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama [Japan Times]

• Kishin Shinoyama at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]

• Taiji Matsue at the Izu Photo Museum [Japan Times]

• “Tokyo Designers Week” at Jingu-Gaien Kaigakukanmae [TAB]

• “Tokyo Photo 2012” at Tokyo Midtown Hall [TAB]

• Makoto Aida at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]

• FILMeX 2012 [TAB]

News

• Japanese Architects lead M+ Shortlist [ART iT]

• Shizuko Watari (1932–2012) [ART iT]

• Yasumasa Morimura to direct Yokohama Triennale 2014 [ART iT]

• Japan’s museums enjoy a makeover [Japan Times]

• A Year of Art News in Japan [TAB]

• 2012: The Year in Review [TAB]