Tag: Tokyo
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Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory
This major respective celebrates the Japanese artist known for his colourful works, which reflect childhood memories of the second world war and the impact of American pop culture that came after
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Dialogue with Joseph Beuys
Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated
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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
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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
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Ayashii: Decadent and Grotesque Images of Beauty in Modern Japanese Art
This exhibition explores Japanese artists’ notion of beauty in the late-18th to the early 20th century, and how it came to be profoundly influenced by western views
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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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Mami Kataoka – interview: ‘We need to look at long-term museum management because this situation will linger’
The director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo explains how it has used its online presence and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers how this will shape the future of exhibitions and the funding of museums
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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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Hayato Kiyuna, No Aloha
No Aloha is an exhibition of brightly coloured works on paper by Japanese artist Hayato Kiyuna. It is perhaps no surprise, since he is influenced by music and sound, that the exhibition is titled after one of his favourite songs…
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Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
An exhibition of more than 80 drawings by Cy Twombly is on show at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. The works give an insight into the formation of Twombly’s characteristic style through process and experimentation
