Art Space Tokyo - Tokyo art world news, updates and maps http://artspacetokyo.com/ en ashley@chinmusicpress.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-01T03:07:00+09:00 APRIL ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/zpjlVRjkaDM/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/april_article_round_up3/#When:03:07:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Japan Art News 2012-05-01T03:07:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/april_article_round_up3/#When:03:07:00Z MARCH ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/MLPbxg3RoJA/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/march_article_round_up3/#When:23:18:01Z {summary} 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]

]]> Japan Art News, Tokyo Art Events 2012-04-09T23:18:01+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/march_article_round_up3/#When:23:18:01Z FEBRUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/s7w3-QxdfhE/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/february_article_round_up3/#When:20:55:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News 2012-03-17T20:55:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/february_article_round_up3/#When:20:55:00Z JANUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/zwqo66JZm7k/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/january_article_round_up3/#When:03:00:00Z {summary} 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 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2012-02-12T03:00:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/january_article_round_up3/#When:03:00:00Z Ten Best Galleries and Works of Architecture on The Guardian http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/tmIopH0K4sw/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/ten_best_galleries_and_works_of_architecture_on_the_guardian/#When:20:40:00Z {summary}

The Guardian has just launched its Tokyo City Guide, a fantastic interactive look at the city that includes recommendations for the best restaurants, hotels, bars, and clubs. Their summary of typical salaryman hangouts is a great alternative look at life in Tokyo.

I was asked to contribute my ten favorite galleries and museums, and my ten favorite architectural highlights. All of these locations are marked on a Google map of the city that you can play with here. The top ten galleries and works of architecture also have their own separate pages if you want to read them without having to click between from one to the other.

]]> Tokyo Art Maps, Tokyo Architecture 2012-02-01T20:40:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/ten_best_galleries_and_works_of_architecture_on_the_guardian/#When:20:40:00Z DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/L6WRqkOy8pI/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/december_article_round_up3/#When:03:38:02Z {summary} 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]

]]> Japan Art News 2012-01-10T03:38:02+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/december_article_round_up3/#When:03:38:02Z NOVEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/_3ccVgubpO8/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/november_article_round_up3/#When:00:21:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-12-05T00:21:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/november_article_round_up3/#When:00:21:00Z OCTOBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/xvmThdPgBh0/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/october_article_round_up3/#When:23:50:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-11-14T23:50:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/october_article_round_up3/#When:23:50:00Z SEPTEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/u75PYaaDgdI/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/september_article_round_up3/#When:03:54:00Z {summary} 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

• “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]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-10-20T03:54:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/september_article_round_up3/#When:03:54:00Z AUGUST ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/U9kxqtsJSGw/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/august_article_round_up2/#When:22:48:01Z {summary} 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

• 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]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-09-18T22:48:01+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/august_article_round_up2/#When:22:48:01Z JULY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/gxDUapIMejQ/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/july_article_round_up2/#When:19:57:00Z {summary} 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.

• “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]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-08-04T19:57:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/july_article_round_up2/#When:19:57:00Z JUNE ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/WIGRo4DUnrU/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/june_article_round_up2/#When:11:47:00Z {summary} 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

• 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2011-07-07T11:47:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/june_article_round_up2/#When:11:47:00Z MAY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/i5rOirIVwWY/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/may_article_round_up2/#When:11:36:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2011-07-07T11:36:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/may_article_round_up2/#When:11:36:00Z APRIL ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/5VcUtq-Xx7s/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/april_article_round_up2/#When:23:15:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2011-07-06T23:15:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/april_article_round_up2/#When:23:15:00Z MARCH ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/K4SM_XGOro8/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/march_article_round_up2/#When:21:42:00Z {summary} 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

• Yusuke Nakahara (1931–2011)

]]> Japan Art News 2011-04-10T21:42:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/march_article_round_up2/#When:21:42:00Z FEBRUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/_6ea1MjFPQM/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/february_article_round_up2/#When:19:02:00Z {summary} 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]

• New Gallery Building Opens in Roppongi [TAB]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2011-03-06T19:02:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/february_article_round_up2/#When:19:02:00Z ArtAsiaPacific Magazine relaunches its website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/27vlkLoeVxw/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/artasiapacific_magazine_relaunches_its_website/#When:17:21:00Z {summary}

ArtAsiaPacific, the leading publication on contemporary art in Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East, relaunched its website this week.

The new site—designed by LinkedBy Air, the team behind the Whitney Museum site’s relaunch last year—makes dozens of past articles available for free, including many on contemporary Japanese art.

The bimonthly magazine will continue to release selected articles with each issue, and there will be regular uploads of web-exclusive reviews, video interviews, news reports and blog posts. Meanwhile, the archives, which currently go back to 2007, will grow over time.

Here is a compilation of links to the articles on contemporary Japanese art currently available on the site. As the 2011–2007 span of the archives happens to coincide with when I started contributing to the magazine from Tokyo and then moved to New York to become a full-time editor, you’ll notice that a chunk of them are my own!

Features

• Daido Moriyama: “Out of the Darkness” by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 70, Sept/Oct 2010]

• Taboos in Postwar Japanese Art: Mutually Assured Decorum by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 65, Sept/Oct 2009]

• Lee Ufan: Illusions and Interrelationships by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 62, Mar/Apr 2009]

• Makoto Aida: No More War; Save Water; Don’t Pollute the Sea by Andrew Maerkle [AAP 59, Jul/Aug 2008]

• Yoko Ono: The Artist in Her Unfinished Avant-Garden by HG Masters [AAP 58, May/Jun 2008]

Essays

• Institutional growth and diversification in the Tokyo art scene: “Living in A Beautiful Japan” by Roger McDonald [AAP 53, May/Jun 2007]

Reviews

• Ryoji Ikeda: “+/- [The Inifinite Between 0 and 1]” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, by Kenichi Kondo [AAP 64, Jul/Aug 2009]

• “Into the Atomic Sunshine” at Daikanyama Hillside Forum by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 61, Nov/Dec 2008]

• Daido Moriyama: “Retrospective 1965–2005 / Hawaii” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography by Ashley Rawlings [AAP 60, Sept/Oct 2008]

News

• Controversy over Takashi Murakami’s exhibition at the Château de Versailles by Jina Valentine [AAP 71, Nov/Dec 2010]

• Controversy over Seattle Art Museum guard altering a Yoko Ono work by Rebecca Close [AAP 66, Nov/Dec 2009]

• Yoshitomo Nara’s arrest for writing graffiti in the NYC subway by Hanae Ko [AAP 63, May/Jun 2009]

]]> Japan Art News 2011-02-27T17:21:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/artasiapacific_magazine_relaunches_its_website/#When:17:21:00Z JANUARY ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/x_6jAsjCvOI/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/january_article_round_up2/#When:21:45:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2011-02-04T21:45:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/january_article_round_up2/#When:21:45:00Z ART SPACE TOKYO REVIEWED IN LEAP MAGAZINE http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/O29OaucKd_M/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/art_space_tokyo_reviewed_in_leap_magazine/#When:13:22:00Z {summary} Happy New Year!  We hope you’re as excited about 2011 as we are.

The year has already got off to a good start for us. We just received a copy of the December issue of LEAP, a bilingual Chinese-English periodical on contemporary art in China. In it, its editorial director, Philip Tinari, wrote a brief but glowing review of AST—one that appreciates our enthusiasm for the Tokyo art world, the city and the art of bookmaking.

This immaculately written, edited, and designed pocket archive of the Tokyo art world offers a printed vision of its co-authors’ mental, nodal picture of a scene they know from the inside. Its topical interviews with key dealers and collectors, inky illustrations, and articulate maps don’t so much as portray a city through its art world as they capture an art world through the meticulous voice of its city. Less ironic than gleeful in its embrace of authoritatively bookish conventions—copious endmatter, empirical footnotes, self-conscious copyright page—the compact volume revels in being a monument at a moment when permanence can seem but a stylistic choice.

Thank you, Philip!

]]> AST News, AST Press 2011-01-11T13:22:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/art_space_tokyo_reviewed_in_leap_magazine/#When:13:22:00Z DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artspacetokyo/~3/wmnxRZgBEUY/ http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/december_article_round_up2/#When:13:12:00Z {summary} 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]

]]> Tokyo Art News, Japan Art News 2010-12-25T13:12:00+09:00 http://artspacetokyo.com/blog/december_article_round_up2/#When:13:12:00Z