Monthly Round-Ups
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
• “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]
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
• “The Long Residence: At Home Again” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]
• Ikko Tanaka at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• David Lynch at the LaForet Museum [Japan Times]
Interviews and Features
• Naoshima [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog of Tokyo [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Koki Tanaka [ART iT]
• Masato Nakamura [Japan Times]
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
• Daido Moriyama at BLD Gallery [Artscape International]
• Studio Mumbai at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Artscape International]
• Chim↑Pom at the Parco Museum [TAB]
Features
• Actuality and Art I [Realtokyo]
News
• Takashi Azumaya (1968–2012) [ART iT]
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
• Takeshi Murata at Salon 94, New York [Art in America]
• Peter Bellars at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• “Gutai: The Spirit of an Era at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Frieze]
• Naoya Hatakeyama at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [LA Times]
• Tatzu Nishi at Columbus Circle, New York [NY Times]
• Tatzu Nishi at Columbus Circle, New York [Spoon & Tamago]
• Hiroshi Fuji at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Spoon & Tamago]
Interviews and Features
• Observations on Japanese Cinema After 3/11 [film.culture.360]
• Tatzu Nishi [NY Times]
• Mr at Lehmann Maupin, New York [VernissageTV]
• MoMAT Pavilion by Studio Mumbai at the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo [Vimeo]
News
• Takashi Azumaya (1968–2012) [ART iT]
• Japanese galleries open in the Gillman Barracks in Singapore [ART iT]
• Japanese galleries open in the Gillman Barracks in Singapore [Japan Times]
• Blum & Poe announces plans to open Tokyo Office [LA Times]
• Blum & Poe announces plans to open Tokyo Office [The Art Newspaper]
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
• 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]
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.
Reviews
• Masako Ando at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artforum]
• “Open Space 2012” at the NTT Intercommunication Center [Artscape International]
• “Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary Art” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• “Gutai – The Spirit of an Era” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Osamu Wataya at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film [Japan Times]
• Kaoru Hirano at SCAI The Bathhouse [Japan Times]
• “Gutai – The Spirit of an Era” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [TAB]
Features
• Women’s Style: Yayoi Kusama [AnOther Magazine]
• The Yappeshi Festival in Tohoku [ArtAsiaPacific]
• The opening of Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art [Artforum]
• The Dog House, a house for art patron Joni Waka, by Joseph Kosuth [Artscape International]
• The Tokoro Museum of Art, Omishima, and the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari [Artscape International]
• Kenji Yanobe at the Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Jikken Kobo [Japanese Contemporary Art ]
• Yayoi Kusama [New York Magazine]
News
• Ahn Sehong’s “Layer by Layer” exhibition of photographs depicting “comfort women” survivors shut down [ArtAsiaPacific]
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
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at Pace Beijing [Artforum]
• Kishio Suga at Tomio Koyama Gallery [ArtReview]
• “The Allure of the Collection” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Jun Itami at Gallery Ma [Artscape International]
• “Function Dysfunction” at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Japan Times]
• Thomas Demand at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Makito Okada at Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Rinko Kawauchi at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Max Ernst at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Shoichi Ida at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Natsumi Hayashi at MEM [TAB]
• “Hors Pistes Tokyo 2012” at Uplink Factory [TAB]
• Thomas Demand at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Daido Moriyama at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film [TAB]
Features
• Tomoko Konoike [Artscape International]
• Rikuzentaka Disaster Document Digitalization Project [Japan Times]
MAY ARTICLE ROUND-UP
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Reviews
• “Sculpture by Other Means” at One and J. Gallery, Seoul [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Kunie Sugiura at Leslie Tonkonow, New York [Art in America]
• Noriyuki Haraguchi at McCaffrey Fine Art, New York [Art in America]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]
• Mika Ninagawa and Nana Funo at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Artscape International]
• Hirofumi Isoya (Photo Report) at Aoyama | Meguro [ART iT]
• Daido Moriyama at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [Huffington Post]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Otomo Katsuhiro at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• Makoto Morimura at Tokio Out of Place [Japan Times]
• Ryosuke Uehara and Yoshie Watanabe at Ginza Graphic Gallery [Japan Times]
• Beat Takeshi Kitano at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Oliver Payne at Nanzuka [TAB]
Features
• Tabaimo [Art 21]
• Japanese artists in Berlin [Adrian Favell on the ART iT Blog]
• Luxury Brands and the Arts [Realtokyo]
• Koki Tanaka [Spoon & Tamago]
• Chiharu Shiota at Haunch of Venison, New York [Vernissage TV]
News
• Takeshi Miyakawa arrested in New York after his guerrilla artworks were mistaken for bombs [Artinfo]
• Koki Tanaka to represent Japan at Venice Biennale 2013 [ART iT]
• Tokyo Skytree, the world’s tallest tower, opens [The Guardian]
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]
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
• “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” [Adrian Favell’s blog on ART iT]
• Noriyuki Haraguchi at McCaffrey Fine Art [Artforum]
• Yasumasa Morimura at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• “Global Ends: Towards the Beginning” at Gallery Ma [Artscape International]
• Fumio Nambata at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Yayoi Kusama at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japapn Times]
• “Mental Map Studies” at the Meguro Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Mirei Shigemori at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Hiroji Noda at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Ryudai Takano at Yumiko Chiba Associates and NADiff a/p/a/r/t [TAB]
• Ami Clarke at The Container [TAB]
• Naoyuki Hata at Guardian Garden [TAB]
• Mao Ishikawa at Zen Foto Gallery [TAB]
• Lee Bul” at the Mori Art Museum [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Tomoko Yoneda (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Tomoko Yoneda (Part 2) [ART iT]
• Tomoko Yoneda (Part 3) [ART iT]
Features
• ARCUS Residency Project [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Miwako Tezuka in conversation with Doryun Chong [Art Journal]
• Koki Tanaka shares his web inspirations [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Ten of the best contemporary art galleries in Tokyo [The Guardian]
• Ten of the best works of architecture in Tokyo [The Guardian]
• Tadaaki Kuwayama [NY Art Beat]
• Miwa Yanagi [Realtokyo]
• Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
JANUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP
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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
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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
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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
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• “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
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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]
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
• Aki Sasamoto at Take Ninagawa [Artforum]
• Tadasu Takamine at the Yokohama Museum of Art [ART iT]
• DanDans at Bulgari Ginza Tower [Artscape International]
• “GA Japan 2010: Contemporary Japanese Architects” at GA Gallery [Artscape International]
• Mizuki Shigeru at the Hachijoji Yume Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Masatoshi Sakaegi at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Saburo Aso at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Aki Sasamoto at Take Ninagawa [Japan Times]
• Lee Ufan at SCAI The Bathhouse [TAB]
• Motohiko Odani at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Oscar Tuazon and Gardar Eide Einarsson at Rat Hole Gallery [Tokyo Weekender]
• Ai Weiwei at Misa Shin Gallery [Tokyo Weekender]
• Motohiko Odani at the Mori Art Museum [Tokyo Weekender]
• “Transformation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Yutaka Sone [ART iT]
• Misa Shin [TAB]
• Sou Fujimoto [Tokyo Weekender]
Features
• Taiji Matsue (Part I) [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
• Katsuhiko Hibino at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• Tomoki Kurokawa at Nanzuka Underground [Artscape International]
• “Snapshots Cast Their Spell” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• “Primary Field II” at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama [Japan Times]
• “Reality Lab” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Ichiro Fukuzawa and His Disciples” at the Itabashi Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “Collection 3: Japanese Art 1950–2010” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• Dominique Perrault at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Shinya Aota at Aoyama | Meguro [TAB]
• “Global Ends: Towards the Beginning” at Gallery Ma [TAB]
Features
• 0000 Collective [Japan Times]
• Tokyo Art Meeting at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Katsuhiro Yamaguchi [ART iT]
• Things Worth Remembering 2010” [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
• Koga Harue at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama [Artscape International]
• “U-30: Under 30 Architects exhibition” at ODP Design Gallery, Kyoto [Artscape International]
• Junya Ishigami at Shiseido Gallery [Realtokyo]
• Kenji Yanobe at Yamamoto Gendai [TAB]
• “Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Kiyoshi Suzuki at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Features
• Print exhibitions at Kichijoji Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Fram Kitagawa and the Setouchi International Art Festival [The Internetwork]
• Three architecture exhibitions: Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and “City 2.0” [Realtokyo]
• Tokyo FILMeX [TAB]
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
• Taiji Matsue at Taro Nasu [Artforum]
• Ryota Aoki at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Jae-Eun Choi at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Jae-Eun Choi at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• “Love’s Body: Art in the Age of AIDS” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Masahiko Sato at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Roni Horn” at Rat Hole Gallery [TAB]
Interviews
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part One) [ART iT]
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part Two) [ART iT]
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part Three) [ART iT]
• Peter Fischli and David Weiss [Japan Times]
Features
• The Future of Setouchi and Aichi” [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
• Yurie Nagashima at SCAI The Bathhouse [ART iT]
• The Aichi Triennale in Nagoya [Artscape International]
• “Sensing Nature: Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Anpo: Art x War” at Uplink Factory [TAB]
Interviews
• Kazuyo Sejima [ART iT]
• Ryue Nishizawa [ART iT]
• Junya Ishigami [ART iT]
• Sou Fujimoto [ART iT]
• Mika Tajima [ART iT]
• Takashi Murakami [New York – Tokyo]
• Takashi Murakami [Vernissage TV]
Features
• Tatsumi Orimoto [art.es]
• Tsuneko Sasamoto [Japan Times]
• Shoen Uemura [Japan Times]
• The Aichi Triennale 2010 [Artscape International]
• Shinro Ohtake [Designboom]
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
• Yuichi Higashionna at NADiff Gallery 2F [Artscape International]
• Man Ray at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Innocence – Art Towards Life” at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts [Japan Times]
• Paramodel at Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Christian Boltanski at the Setouchi International Art Festival [Japan Times]
• Robert Waters at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
• Mamoru at Yuka Contemporary [TAB]
• Isao Sugiyama at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP [TAB]
• The Tokyo Art Book Fair at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [TAB]
Interviews
• Takashi Murakami [Interview Magazine]
• Lee Ufan [Japan Times]
Features
• Yuuki Matsumura [ART iT]
• Setouchi International Art Festival [Japan Times]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• The Aichi Triennale [Japan Times]
• Shinro Ohtake’s Indexical Survey of Tokyo in the Age of Cinema [ART iT]
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And when an interview with the Maestro himself isn’t enough, here’s your Murakami Moment of the Month:
• Murakami’s planned show at Versailles riles right-wing critics
[Art Info]
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
• William Eggleston at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artforum]
• “What is Architecture?” at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Artscape]
• Naoya Hatakeyama at Taka Ishii Gallery [Japan Times]
• Robert Waters at Mizuma Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• William Eggleston at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• “Wind Speed 0” at Radi-um [TAB]
• Osamu Mori at Yamamoto Gendai [TAB]
• Tam Ochiai at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• “Meaningful Stain” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• “Darkness for Light – Czech Photography Today” at Shiseido Gallery [TAB]
• Yuki Matsumura at Take Ninagawa [TAB]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at Gallery aM [TAB]
• Shinjuko at Parabolica-bis [TAB]
Interviews
• Adrian Favell [TAB]
Features
• An Indexical Survey of Tokyo in the Age of Cinema [ART iT]
• Japan as Galapagos [ART iT]
• The Mitsubishi Ichigokan [Artscape]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Realtokyo]
Obits
• Yoshitaka Azuma (1977–2010) [ART iT]
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]
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…
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]
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.
Exhibition Reviews
• “Neoteny Japan” and Yayoi Kusama at the Ueno Royal Museum and Takahashi Collection Hibiya [TAB]
• “Winter Garden: The Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Chim↑Pom at NADiff [TAB]
• Keizo Kitajima at Rat Hole Gallery [TAB]
• “The Kaleidoscopic Eye” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Kosuke Ichikawa at PLSMIS [ART iT]
• Venice Biennale report [ART iT]
• “Hundred Stories about Love” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa [ART iT]
• “Vision of Contemporary Art 2009” at the Ueno Royal Museum
[ART iT]
• Tadasu Takamine at the Sendai Mediatheque [ART iT]
More Exhibition Reviews...
• Hitoshi Nomura at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Venice Biennale report [Japan Times]
• ArtBasel report [Japan Times]
• “Tadao Ando Exhibition 2009: The City of Water/Osaka vs. Venice” at Suntory Museum Tempozan [Japan Times]
• Aloise Corbaz at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Hitomi Watanabe at the Phillia Museum [Artscape]
• “Neoteny Japan” at the Ueno Royal Museum [Artscape]
• Ryoji Ikeda at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [White Rabbit]
• Tatzu Nishi at Arataniurano [Artforum]
• “Neoteny Japan” and “Winter Garden” at the Ueno Royal Museum and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Metropolis]
Interviews
• Tatzu Nishi at Arataniurano (Part 1) [TAB]
• Tatzu Nishi at Arataniurano (Part 2) [TAB]
• TABuzz #03: Satoru Aoyama [TAB]
• TABuzz #04: Yosuke Kurita
• Miwa Yanagi at the Venice Biennale [Japan Times]
• Tadao Ando and Hiroshi Sugimoto in conversation [ART iT]
• Miwa Yanagi at the Venice Biennale [ART iT]
• Interview with Satoru Aoyama [ART iT]
• Interview with Teppei Kaneuji [ART iT]
Features
• Ryutaro Takahashi and “Neoteny Japan” [Artscape]
• Architectural Institute of Japan [Artscape]
• Chim↑Pom’s “Gallery Vagina” [RealTokyo]
• ART iT magazine’s transfer to the web [Japan Times]
... And your Murakami Moment of the month
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.
Exhibition Reviews
• Ryoji Ikeda at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at Maison Hermès’ Le Forum gallery [TAB]
• “Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today”
at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Yishay Garbasz at Wako Works of Art [TAB]
• Aiko Miyanaga at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
• Hiroshi Yoshida at Waitingroom [TAB]
• Natsuyuki Nakanishi at SCAI the Bathhouse [TAB]
• More Exhibition Reviews...
• Yishay Garbasz at Wako Works of Art [Japan Times]
• “U-Tsu-Wa” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection” at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Tetsuya Umeda at Ota Fine Arts [Japan Times]
• Mark Rothko at the Kawamura Memorial Museum [Japan Times]
• “20: Klein Dytham Architecture” at Gallery Ma [Japan Times]
Yet More Exhibition Reviews...
• Tadasu Takamine at the Sendai Mediatheque [ART iT]
• Yishay Garbasz at Wako Works of Art [Artforum]
• “Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today”
at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Artscape]
• “20: Klein Dytham Architecture” at Gallery Ma [Artscape]
• Osamu Tezuka at Edo-Tokyo Museum [Metropolis]
• “Matisse and His Circles – France Wild, France Refined” at Bridgestone Museum [Metropolis]
And Some Interviews and Features...
• The first in the TABuzz series of interviews: curator Haruka Ito [TAB]
• The second in the TABuzz series of interviews: artist Teppei Kaneuji [TAB]
• A video interview with artist Shantell Martin [TAB]
• An interview with David Pollard and Tomonari Waku, of organic architecture collective Natural House Project [TAB]
• A profile of one of Japan’s leading collectors of contemporary art, Ryutaro Takahashi [Japan Times]
• A profile of artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, who are on an artist-in-residence program at Tokyo Wonder Site [Japan Times]
• Tetsuya Ozaki on Aiko Miyanaga at Mizuma Art Gallery [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.
Exhibition Reviews
• Roppongi Art Night in and around Roppongi Hills [TAB]
• Miwa Yanagi at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Teppei Kaneuji at the Yokohama Museum of Art [TAB]
• Akiyoshi Mishima and Motohiko Odani at Nanzuka Underground and Yamamoto Gendai [TAB]
• “20: Klein Dytham Architecture” at Gallery Ma [TAB]
• “20: Klein Dytham Architecture” at Gallery Ma [Japan Times]
• Ryoji Ikeda at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Sophy Rickett at Nichido Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Miwa Yanagi at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Artscape]
• Norio Hosaka at Coexist Gallery [Artscape]
• “Artists’ File” at the National Art Center Tokyo [Metropolis]
Features
• Taro Okamoto’s mural “Myth of Tomorrow” at Shibuya Station
Interviews
• Hiroshi Eguchi of publishing house UTRECHT [TAB]
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.
Exhibition Reviews
• Shimabuku at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Jim Lambie at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Tse Su-Mei at Art Tower Mito [TAB]
• “GA Houses Project” at GA Gallery [TAB]
Interviews
• Paule Saviano at Gallery éf [TAB]
• Tekko Itoh on the Kawaguchi i-mono iron cookware brand [TAB]
• Koo Fu jewelry [TAB]
• Hiroyuki Saito on Ikazaki Shachu washi paper [TAB]
• Satoshi Yamashita on Hokubo blade-producing [TAB]
• Naoki Ishibashi on Soejima igusa grass for tatami mats [TAB]
• Shutaro Nomura on Nomura Orimono textiles [TAB]
• Toshihisa Yoshizawa on Nigara Uchihamono Tanzono bladesmithing [TAB]
• Tsuneo Goto on Naruko lacquerware [TAB]
• Japan Knit Brand [TAB]
• Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec on visiting sites of craft production in rural Japan [TAB]
Features
On Realtokyo, Tetsuya Ozaki discusses Kiyoshi Awazu’s retrospective at the Kawasaki City Museum and announces that ART iT and RealTokyo will be downscaling their activities.
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.
Exhibition Reviews
• “Chalo! India — A New Era in Indian Contemporary Art” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Diener & Diener at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [TAB]
• “Light Insight” at the NTT ICC [TAB]
• Vik Muniz at Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya [TAB]
• Toshio Matsumoto at Theatre Image Forum [TAB]
• Yutaka Takanashi at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• “57th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works” at Tokyo University of the Arts [TAB]
• Regional Code Asia + Richard Streitmatter-Tran at Project Space Kandada [TAB]
• Aram Dikiciyan at Clear Gallery [Japan Times]
• Aiko Miyanaga at Shiseido Gallery [Japan Times]
• Jim Lambie at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Mark Ryden at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Japan Times]
• Peter McDonald at Gallery Side 2 [Artscape]
Interviews
• Yoshinobu Watanabe of Kikuyu on Mizuhiki knot tying [TAB]
• Nissin Furniture Crafters [TAB]
• Motoyuki Tamagawa of Gyokusendo on tsuikidoki coppersmith techniques in Niigata prefecture [TAB]
• Tsutomu Deshimaru talks about Satuma Kuro Kiriko glass from Kagoshima [TAB]
Features
• Tetsuya Ozaki discusses War and Art [RealTokyo]
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.
Exhibition Reviews
• Manabu Ikeda at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
• Tabaimo at Gallery Koyanagi [TAB]
• Yasuzo Masumura at Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku [TAB]
• Vik Muniz at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya [Japan Times]
• Jim Lambie at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Ryo Sehata at the Nerima Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Donna Ong at Wada Fine Arts [Japan Times]
• Peter McDonald at Gallery Side 2 [Japan Times]
• Takashi Yasumura and Satoru Eguchi at Misako & Rosen [Artscape]
• Atushi Nogimura at Living Design Center Ozone Gallery [Artscape]
• Miyako Ishiuchi at the Meguro Museum of Art [Artscape]
• The Fuchu Biennial [Metropolis]
Features
• The second part of “Year in Art 2008,” covering July to December [TAB]
Interviews
• Michael Borremans at Gallery Koyanagi [ART iT]
• Rug weaving in Yamagata prefecture [TAB]
• Cast iron manufacturing in Yamagata prefecture [TAB]
• Tansu woodcraft in Niigata prefecture [TAB]
And in Other News....
• Yoshitomo Nara arrested for Graffiti in New York [Art in America]
DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Tokyo Art Beat’s of the month was “Towards an Open Source Urbanism”, Dominick Chen’s examination of how the virtual urban environment relates to the physical city in Tokyo.
On Tokyo Art Beat, I published the first part of “The Year in Art 2008”, my round up of the key exhibitions and events that shaped the Tokyo art scene this year.
Similarly, RealTokyo offers its highlights of 2008.
In December, the Japan Times published an article questioning whether or not the Chinese art bubble has burst and how this may be shifting more attention onto Japanese contemporary art.
Unfortunately, one bubble that burst in December was PingMag, which fell victim to the global economic downturn and has suspended its activities for the forseeable future. Its last article was an interview
with artist Ryu Itadani.
Exhibition reviews for this month included:
• Bruce Conner at Miyake Fine Art [TAB]
• Michael Borremans at Gallery Koyanagi [TAB]
• Mika Ninagawa at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [TAB]
• “Chalo! India — A New Era in Indian Contemporary Art” at Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Andrew Wyeth at the Bunkamura Museum of Art [Metropolis]
• Leonard Foujita at the Ueno Royal Museum [Metropolis]
And your Murakami Moment of the Month: A little bundle of Superflat let loose at Art Basel Miami Beach.
NOVEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
With the Yokohama Triennale having come to a close on November 30, Tokyo Art Beat concluded its coverage with a review of Pedro Reyes’ Baby Marx on display at the shinko pier, and Artscape reported on the nearby Koganecho Bazaar.
November was a big month for Tokyo’s design community, with Design Week Tokyo 2008 dominating the Aoyama area and other locations around Tokyo. PingMag picked out its highlights; Tokyo Art Beat reviewed the week’s two major events “100% Tokyo” and “Design Tide”, as well as the Good Design Exhibition held at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub.
A low key, but historically significant event that took place this month was the recreation of Nobuo Sekine’s Phase — Mother Earth, last seen in Kobe in 1968; its 2008 reincarnation was documented in a TAB photo report.
In his monthly “Out of Tokyo” column at Realtokyo, Tetsuya Ozaki covered the fallout surrounding artist group Chim↑Pom’s atom bomb-inspired “Pika” performance in Hiroshima last month.
Similarly headline-grabbing was world-famous animator Hayao Miyazaki’s criticism of Prime Minister Taro Aso, who he derided as “an embarrassment.”
Also in animation-related news was Takashi Murakami’s decision to open an animation studio in Los Angeles.
Other reviews this month:
• Hisashi Tenmyoya at Mizuma Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Tomotaka Yasui at Megumi Ogita Gallery [Japan Times]
• Hideaki Shibata and Kazuya Matsunaga at Yukari Art Contemporary [Japan Times]
• Chikako Ikeguchi at the Shibuya Shoto Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• “Art of our Time” at the Ueno Royal Museum [TAB]
• Tomoko Yoneda at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Tadao Ando at Gallery Ma [TAB]
• “On Your Body” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Kazunari Sakamoto at the Tokyo Institute of Technology [Artscape]
• Sachigusa Yasuda at Base Gallery [ART iT]
OCTOBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Coverage of the Yokohama Triennale appears to have peaked this month, with a slew of reviews and interviews. Roger McDonald gives a fascinating critique from a curatorial point of view on his Tactical Museum blog.
PingMag offered a mini guide to the triennale, while Tokyo Art Beat published reviews of a number of works featured in the show, including Cao Fei’s Play with your Triennale, Matthew Barney’s Guardian of the Veil, and Cerith Wyn Evans and Throbbing Gristle’s A=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N. The Japan Times also reported on Terence Koh’s White Bunny Parade.
For interviews with artists taking part in the triennale, see TAB’s video series that focused on Joan Jonas, Aki Sasamoto, and Andreas Stasta, an assistant to Hermann Nitsch.
Other reviews this month:
• Aida Makoto at Mizuma Art Gallery [Artscape]
• Tomoko Shioyasu at SCAI The Bathhouse [Artscape]
• Seiichi Yamashita at Gallery Bauhaus [Artscape]
• “Diorama of the City: Between Site and Space” at Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya [Japan Times]
• Noritoshi Hirakawa at Wako Works of Art and Nanzuka Underground [Japan Times]
• Joan Jonas at Wako Works of Art [Japan Times]
• “Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art” at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Tomoko Yoneda at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Tomoko Yoneda at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artforum.com]
• Yasuyuki Nishio at NADiff [TAB]
• GEISAI #11 [Art Newspaper]
More general articles that have appeared this month have included Tokyo Art Beat’s exploration of the Koganecho Bazaar in Yokohama, and its interview with Lieko Shiga, who was in last month’s “Trace Elements” exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, and is currently showing at in the “On Your Body” exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Meanwhile, the Japan Times looks at the Venice Architecture Biennale and touches on Junya Ishigami’s work there. They have also reported on the Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Auction; the Kunst Oktoberfest, a bus tour of several galleries in the Ginza and Nihonbashi areas; and the controversy that artist group Chim↑Pom recently caused in Hiroshima, which is then discussed in relation to Cai Guo Quiang’s work in Hiroshima at the art life blog.
ART iT takes a look at art works installed in the Tokachi Plain in central Hokkaido, while in his “Out of Tokyo” column at Realtokyo, Tetsuya Ozaki comments on Tsuyoshi Ozawa and Paramodel’s participation in the “Akasaka Art Flower” exhibition held at various sites in Akasaka, as well as the “Extended Senses: Present of Japanese / Korean Media Art” exhibition at the NTT ICC.
Shiftblog has interviewed Megumi Matsubara of the architectural unit “assistant”, while PingMag interviews Reno Camerota about Japan’s graffiti and street art. As October draws to a close, Tokyo Design Week begins, so as with their Yokohama Triennale coverage last month, PingMag have come up with an introductory guide followed by a more exhaustive list of what’s going on.
Lastly, because no month of Japanese art news would be complete without something from Mr Murakami, I leave you with Nylonmag’s report on the artist’s new series of limited edition Levi’s.
SEPTEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
This month has been dominated by coverage of the Yokohama Triennale, which started on September 13 and runs until the end of November.
At ARTINFO, Lucy Birmingham explains how this year’s triennale outperforms its predecessor in 2005. In the Japan Times, James Hadfield pointed out some of the key performances to look out for. Andrew Maerkle also picks out some of the highlights but brings up the overall consensus in the Japanese art industry that the triennale is “boring”. Meanwhile, Edan Corkill interviewed the triennale’s director Tsutomu Mizusawa.
Tokyo Art Beat has commenced its coverage of the triennale with a series of photo reports on the multiple venues in Yokohama: the Shinko Pier, the Red Brick Warehouse, BankART Studio NYK, and the “Echo” exhibition being held at ZAIM, which has in turn been reviewed by the Japan Times. In connection with this exhibition, sociologist Adrian Favell gave a talk about the post-Murakami generation of Japanese contemporary artists, and he has published a PDF of the transcript in English and Japanese. Meanwhile, TAB’s first review of the triennale focusses on the video installation by Swiss artists Fischli and Weiss.
Artforum.com’s “Scene and Herd” has faithfully clocked the art world bigwigs at both the Yokohama Triennale and Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI art fair, and in a similar vein, V Magazine has produced a photo report on these two events and others taking place in China.
Back in Tokyo, Annette Messager’s retrospective is on show at the Mori Art Museum, and has been reviewed on Tokyo Art Beat here and the Japan Times here. “Trace Elements: Sprit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery has been covered on TAB both as a review and as an interview with the curator.
Other exhibition reviews include:
• Nobuko Watabiki at Megumi Ogita Gallery and Gallery Shiraishi [Japan Times]
• Masaki Ogihara at Gallery Hashimoto [Japan Times]
• “12 Architectural Visions” at the Setagaya Art Museum [Artscape]
• Alphabet Soup at 21_21 Design Sight [Artscape]
ART iT has published a feature on the growing number of art sites in and around Naoshima and the Seto Inland Sea, and an interview with Roni Horn, following her recent solo exhibition “This is me, this is you” at Rat Hole Gallery. In his Realtokyo column, ART iT editor Tetsuya Ozaki has commented on the Art Taipei fair.
For those of you who still haven’t bought Art Space Tokyo and are interested in a further peek inside, my interview with Atsuko Koyanagi has been published as an extract on Saatchi Online.
In other news, distributor Yohan’s bankruptcy has left Tokyo starved of foreign magazines, including art magazines — the Japan Times looks at how stores are coping.
Lastly, following part one and part two of their Omotesando architecture walk in March, the irrepressible cultural omnivores at PingMag have documented the glassy glitz of Ginza. They conclude the month with an interview with Hajime Ichikawa, a self-titled “map evangelist” who explores every possible facet of Tokyo’s topography.
AUGUST ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Although the Tokyo art world slows right down in August, there have been a number of exhibition reviews published. Two exhibitions stand out in particular.
“Into the Atomic Sunshine”, curated by Shinya Watanabe, brought twelve artists from Japan and abroad together to address the many issues surrounding Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which renounces the state’s right to war.
Roger McDonald of Arts Initiative Tokyo was not so happy with the exhibition’s approach, as he posted here on his blog Tactical Museum.
On the other hand, Darryl Jingwen Wee appreciates the show’s attempt to get stuck into political issues in his review for Tokyo Art Beat, although questions why no manga or anime-related works were included.
I found the exhibition very stimulating — art works that touch on the Emperor’s role in World War II are rare in Japan — and I wrote a review of it for ArtAsiaPacific No.61, which I believe should be out in November.
Edan Corkill has written up a brief interview with Watanabe for the Japan Times. Those who are after a more extensive interview can find one here, at Japan Focus, conducted while the show was in New York earlier this year.
The other show that has been the subject of a fair amount of attention is Tadasu Takamine’s solo exhibition “THE SUPERCAPACITOR”, which is on at Arataniurano until September 20th.
Patrick Brzeski has reviewed it at length for Artscape.
Meanwhile, in her write up for Tokyo Art Beat, Yelena Gluzman questions the apparent disconnect between the artist’s presence and stated ambition versus the reality of the work.
Interested by the artist’s simultaneous attempt to turn the supercapacitor into a kind of brand while also harbouring an activist outlook, I gave a brief review of the show for Artforum.com here.
Lastly, in his column at RealTokyo, Tetsuya Ozaki talks about Takamine in more general terms relating to genre-crossing collaboratons — Takamine has collaborated with Yoshihide Otomo for a show currently on at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
Other reviews that have popped up in August are:
Jeffrey Rosen’s take on Ryohei Usui’s solo exhibition “Flying Goza Mat” at Mujin-to Production [Artscape]
Lucy Birmingham’s review of Hugues Reip’s “Parallel Worlds” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Metropolis]
My doubts about Yosuke Amemiya’s treatment of his own performance at Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya [ART iT]
And my review of “Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery until October 13th [Japan Times]
Links to Articles on the Japanese Contemporary Art Scene
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]
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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.
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