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ART

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Jul 5, 2015
Life's ups, downs lift manga artist Misako Rocks! to success
Manga artist Misako Rocks! is a challenger and a woman of passion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2015
Hotel Granvia's rooms to get contemporary makeovers during Art Osaka
Hotels have long been synonymous with artwork, as opposed to works of art: Much of what you'll encounter are replicas at best or just plain kitsch (ahh, the Eiffel Tower ... again).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 30, 2015
'Kyosai: Master Painter and His Student Josiah Conder'
June 27-Sept. 6
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 30, 2015
'Banditi dell'Arte'
June 26-July 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 30, 2015
'Funakoshi Katsura: A Sphinx in Myself'
June 27-Aug. 30
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015
Germany should buy — and show — Hitler's art
The German government should exhibit Adolf Hitler's artwork publically to help people better undersand what happened to Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 16, 2015
Nissan award echoes a maturing art world
The biennial Nissan Art Award isn't new now, and it wasn't really new when it began in 2013, either — something Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn is fully aware of.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 16, 2015
Just one collector can make all the difference
When Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery opened "Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron," it was packed with people keen to see Ryutaro Takahashi's selection of 140 contemporary artworks by 52 artists. It's only the second major showing of pieces owned by Takahashi, a psychiatrist and one of the most influential...
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 16, 2015
'Bordeaux, Port de la Lune'
June 23-Sept. 23
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 16, 2015
'An Encounter with Treasured Collections of the Museum'
June 13-July 20
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WORLD
Jun 11, 2015
Romantic street art replaces love locks on Paris bridge
Panels of street art have been installed on Paris's Pont des Arts to replace the hundreds of thousands of "love locks" that weighed down the bridge's balustrade until the city began removing them last week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2015
'Beauty of the Spirits': What lurks behind masks of mankind
"Masks: Beauty of the Spirits" comes from the Musee du Quai Branly, an institution that former President Jacque Chirac spearheaded toward the end of his long reign. Opened in 2006 to both fanfare and controversy, the Paris museum's stated mission is to celebrate the masterpieces of non-European countries...
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2015
'Julio Gonzalez Retrospective: Master of Iron Sculpture'
June 7-July 20
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2015
Exhibition on the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Nishiki-e
June 20-Aug. 18
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2015
'No Museum, No Life?'
June 16-Sept. 13
EDITORIALS
Jun 6, 2015
Break the taboo on exotic artworks
A museum is finally going to hold Japan's first major exhibition of erotic art, and hopefully the taboo against such public shows will finally be broken.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 2, 2015
Painting women of Japan
Ask an art lover to name Japanese women artists active before the 20th century, and chances are they'll draw a blank, despite the fact that many highly accomplished women were painting in far-earlier times.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 2, 2015
The big difference a little time can make
The main premise behind "Time of Others" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MoT) is that there is no fixed self — "otherness" can be a matter of recognizing that our identities and qualities as people can change. The curatorial team behind the exhibition do not use "otherness" in its more postcolonial...
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LIFE / Style & Design
May 30, 2015
Home in on Japan's postwar architecture
In the 1960s, architect Kazuo Shinohara made a famous comment in Shinkenchiku magazine: "Residence is art. ... Residence should be outside of what is believed as architecture, it should rather be considered as a form of art, like paintings and sculptures." A bold statement considering that unlike paintings...

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