Tag: Tokyo

Gibraltar focus

Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River is a large-scale project by the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs. Shot in the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Africa and Europe, the video installation shows on one screen a line…
A Futuristic Architectural Movement from the Past Speaks to the Present

Metabolism, the City of the Future Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 17 September 2011–15 January 2012
V&A Dundee: Blueprint on a tidal surge

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s new policy for generating and catalysing satellite ventures outside London has taken off with a dramatic proposal to create a new building at Dundee, Scotland. The initiative was driven by Professor Georgina Follett, Vice-Principal of…
Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 17 September 2005-9 January 2006
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 29 March – 19 June 2005
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 21 December 2004-13 March 2005
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe – Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron

In 1999 Prada launched the “Epicentre Store” programme to examine different ways of reinventing the Prada retail experience by commissioning avant-garde architects like Rem Koolhaas and SANNA to design their new shops. The latest addition to the programme was Prada…
Interview with David Elliott, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Since it opened in October 2003, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has attracted 750,000 visitors for its inaugural exhibition ‘Happiness: a survival guide for art and life’. This figure is surprising considering that the Mori Museum does not have…
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

The Mori Art Museum opened in Tokyo this October. It is part of the 11-hectare urban development enterprise, Roppongi Hills, conceived by the property developer Minoru Mori and opened in central Tokyo in April of this year. The unprecedented scale…