Tag: Japan

Art Without Heroes: Mingei

This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity
Jaeeun Choi: La Vita Nuova

With projects including plans to drop seed bombs on Korea to studying what happens to paper if you bury it for years, this retrospective looks back over Choi’s 40-year career and her passion for nature and ecology
In-Spire: Breath of Life

Fashion stylist Shinichi Mita brings together 11 craftspeople to show how traditional Japanese workmanship practised for hundreds of years can be adapted for the future
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective

Contemporary Japanese artists celebrate their country’s traditional ancient crafts using natural products as well as looking to the future of design
Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp – Venice Biennale 2022

The artist, who is of mixed Japanese and Samoan heritage, talks about showcasing queer rights and revealing the toxic influence of colonialism in her works
Tokyo: Art and Photography

A dizzying array of 400 years of artworks from the capital is testimony to the ability of the Japanese people to reinvent themselves
Kenji Hirasawa – interview: ‘I approach the sitter like a guardian angel, watching over them from far away’

Hirasawa uses a thermal imaging camera to make portraits of people. He explains what drew him to this way of working
Rebecca Salter – interview: ‘I believe that art thrives in a crisis and this can be a cause for hope’

The first female president of the Royal Academy talks about the impact the pandemic has had on the institution and on her own work, and why Japanese art has had such a major influence for her
Exhibition Cuttings, curated by Mathieu Copeland

Copeland challenges the usual perceptions of what an exhibition should be. Here he explores the idea of the closed exhibition and considers how organisms, like art shows, change according to where they are sited
Ryoji Ikeda

An ear-shredding, eye-rending survey of the audiovisual artist transforms data into engulfing experiences and fires up the mind