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Links to Articles on the Japanese Contemporary Art Scene

Posted by Ashley Rawlings on Monday, September 1st 2008

From now on I’ll be trying to post links to useful articles on the Japanese art scene more frequently. For now, I’ve dug into my bookmarks menu to give you the links to some articles on the Tokyo art scene that I’ve come across over the past year or so.

• The closure of the Sagacho Exhibit Space in 2000, one of Tokyo’s few alternative spaces [International Herald & Tribune]

• More on the closure of the Sagacho Exhibit Space [BNET]

• Kay Itoi on the opening of the Shinkawa gallery complex (now closed) [artnet]

• A brief overview of the Tokyo gallery map, including the opening of the Roppongi gallery complex (now closed) [The Economic Times]

• A more thorough look at developments in Tokyo’s gallery scene, including the Kagurazaka gallery complex [Metropolis]

• A new generation of galleries popping up in Tokyo [Tokyo Art Beat]

• The state of the Japanese art market in 2007 [Bloomberg]

• Japanese galleries at Art Basel 2007 [Japan Times]

• Japanese galleries at ShContemporary 2007 [Japan Times]

• An overview of public art in Tokyo [Metropolis]

• The “anti-homeless" design of Tokyo’s public benches [Oh My News]

• Kenji Hall on 101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair and the state of the Japanese art market in 2008 [Businessweek]

• Kenji Hall’s follow-up piece addressing complaints made about the previous article [Businessweek]

• Tokyo’s rental galleries [Japan Times]

• Japan’s culture policy lingers in limbo [Japan Times]

• Tokyo’s art fairs in April 2008 [Japan Times]

• An interview with sociologist Adrian Favell, who gives his perspective on Takashi Murakami [SSRC]

• Nick Currie on the problems facing art criticism, starting with ART iT magazine’s “genuinely rude” slogan [Frieze]

• Japan’s record-breaking museum attendance figures [Japan Times]

• Why are there so few Japanese “super curators”? [Japan Times]