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YAYOI KUSAMA

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...
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BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2014
'Abenomics' colors Japan's art market after years of pallid returns
Just a decade ago, a lithograph by artist Yayoi Kusama would sell for several hundred dollars at best. But now her pieces, some just the size of a magazine, can fetch as much as $74,000.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 21, 2014
Artists' mission to revitalize an onsen town
It begins with a long, slow hiss. The valves open, and a thick fog is released into the air, pouring from the roof of Dogo Onsen Honkan, the famous three-tiered bathhouse built in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, in 1894. It flows down the side of the building, past bathers in bathrobes on the open balcony...
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2012
METI rolls out 'Cool Japan' spring events to promote food, art and fashion
A series of spring events to promote Japanese food, art and fashion has kicked off in Tokyo as part of the "Cool Japan" campaign, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 7, 2004
Yayoi Kusama: Lost and found in art
Yayoi Kusama was just shy of 30 when she left her hometown of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and headed to America to meet her hero, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Jan 1, 2003
So you thought '02 was good? Well, there's Mori to come
It looks, at first glance, like a refreshing case of "out with the old, and in with the new": In late 2002 the Tokyo art community bade a teary goodbye to its Mecca, when the falling-down old Sagacho building, home for years to some of Japan's most progressive gallery spaces, finally closed its doors...

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