Tag: Japan
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Art for SDGs: Kitakyushu Art Festival – Imagining Our Future
The premise of this 11-day festival is that art can draw attention to the state of our planet and propose a better future through sustainable development goals
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Jadé Fadojutimi – interview: ‘I bathe in the conversations between colour, texture, line, form, composition, rhythm, marks and disturbances’
Jadé Fadojutimi talks about how lockdown enriched her practice, her obsession with Japan, her Liverpool Biennial exhibition – and why she wants her studio to feel like her bedroom
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Tim Clark – interview: ‘This set of Hokusai’s drawings is a really important piece of the jigsaw’
The British Museum has just bought 103 newly rediscovered drawings by Hokusai. Tim Clark, the museum’s leading expert on the Japanese artist, talks about studying the pictures and their connections during lockdown, making them available online and preparing for a…
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Ayako Suwa: Taste of Reminiscence, Delicacies from Nature
The Japanese food artist Ayako Suwa usually uses food and flavours as her medium, but the Covid pandemic means she has had to adapt her practices. In this show, she focuses instead on our sense of smell
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Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?
How did you choose the clothes you are wearing today, and what do they say about you? This show picked apart fashion and the meaning of dress codes
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Yuko Hasegawa – interview: ‘We built Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition without the artist’
The artistic director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo was preparing a solo exhibition of Eliasson’s work when the museum shut because of Covid-19. She explains how a printed catalogue and an online talk saved the day
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Revamped Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art is soon to reopen
The original 1933 building, a mix of traditional Japanese design and 1920s western architectural style, has been sympathetically renovated by architects Jun Aoki and Tezzo Nishizawa to make it relevant to 21st-century museum-goers
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Mangaマンガ
The British Museum turns its attention to Japan’s distinctive medium of graphic storytelling, and reveals a diverse, culturally intriguing picture
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Rie Nakajima: ‘What I am making is to be experienced through your body, through your perception and through your sense’
Japanese artist Rie Nakajima’s practice sees everyday objects turned into semi-autonomous mechanisms that come alive in the most inventive ways
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The photographic works of Kishin Shinoyama: Picture Power
The Japanese photographer, famous for his portraits of celebrities and nudes, has selected about 120 works, taken over a 50-year period, leading the viewer on a trip down memory lane
