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JAPANESE ART

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2017
'Human: Ideal Expression of People in Japanese Painting'
March 1 -May 31
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2017
'Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century'
Feb. 18-April 9
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2017
'Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan Around the 1970s'
Feb. 18-April 16
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2017
'The Exhibition of The Sengoku Period: A Century of Dreams'
Feb. 25-April 16
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 7, 2017
Yasuyuki Namikawa: A master of cloisonne color and design
There are two ways that the skill of craftsmanship can be emphasized: by showing it off through masses of meticulous decorative details, or by stripping everything to the bare minimum and bringing into focus just a few perfectly executed qualities. Think of it as maximalism vs. minimalism — Gucci vs....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 7, 2017
'The Works of Yasuji Hanamori: A Designer's Hand, an Editor's Eye'
Feb. 11-April 9
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 7, 2017
'The Collection of Matsumoto City Museum of Art: Connections, Nature and Yayoi Kusama'
Feb. 11-March 12
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 31, 2017
Naoki Ishikawa: the full picture
Naoki Ishikawa does not seem to want to take fantastically dramatic photographs. He has travelled from the North to South Pole, climbed "The Seven Summits," the highest mountains of every continent, and traveled the length of the Japan, but his images are remarkable for their restraint and subtlety....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 31, 2017
The future looks bright for artists in the ancient capital
"Kyoto Art For Tomorrow" at The Museum of Kyoto draws together single pieces by 43 up-and-coming artists under the age of 40. Focusing on a new generation, the exhibition looks forward to the international attention Japan will receive for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Indeed, the show adopts Pierre de Coubertin...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 17, 2017
Taking an art trip through time
"The State of This World: Thought and the Arts," the second of the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History's "Art Trip" exhibitions, this time focuses on four contemporary artists' works that are in some instances inspired by archaeology. They address issues of seen and unseen worlds, life and death, and...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / PHOTO ESSAY
Jan 14, 2017
Echigo-Tsumari: Creative adventures on the art field
It's winter. Inclement weather in December far north of Tokyo should come as no surprise: the farms and forests are normally blanketed in snow. So while preparing for our stay at the "House of Light," an installation in Niigata Prefecture by U.S. conceptual artist James Turrell, we aren't deterred when...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 10, 2017
World War II: Yasuka Goto gets up close and personal
Some artists from earlier generations like Tsuguharu Foujita (also known as Leonard Foujita) have been "outed" in the past decade or two and are now almost celebrated for producing incredibly complex propaganda paintings complicit with Japan's World War II ideology. For others, however, such politics...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 10, 2017
Namikawa Yasuyuki and Japanese Cloisonne: The Allure of Meiji Cloisonne — The Aesthetic of Translucent Black
Jan. 14-April 9
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 10, 2017
Tokujin Yoshioka_Spectrum: Resonant Rainbows Radiate from Prisms
Jan. 13-March 26
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 20, 2016
Reverse Paintings on Glass: The 200 Years of Dazzling History
Dec. 23-Feb. 26
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 20, 2016
Yoshitoshi, a Genius Ukiyo-e Master in a Turbulent Time
Dec. 23-Feb. 13
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
Tokyo: photogenic to its very core
Care to take a guess what the new exhibition "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it's "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" and "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
'Contemporary Japanese Crafts: The Kikuchi Kanjitsu Prize II'
Dec. 17-March 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
'Tomoko Konoike "Skin, Needle, Thread" '
Dec. 17-Feb. 12
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
'The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl: Transmitting a Secret Art across Generations of the Raku Family'
Dec. 17-Feb. 12

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan