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ClosingsBunkamura (closed through 3/10)https://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/21_21Design Sight (closed through 3/12)http://www.2121designsight.jp/en/Mori Art Museum (closed through 3/13)https://www.mor…
At Seikado Bunko Art Museum in Setagaya through December 15. 1926) is a Japanese printmaker whose artist name comes from a mythical flower said to bloom once every three thousand years. “Do…
Tokyo at Maho Kubota Gallery presents new oil paintings of unpopulated cityscapes in central and suburban Tokyo. Meo Saito and Temple of Flora at Meguro Museum of Art presents the up-and…
The unusual exhibition Nobumasaki Kushino’s Outsider Art makes its first appearance in Japan at Gallery AaMo. The show brings together Japan’s “outsider art,” generally referring to works by ind…
In the sixth Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum curators Reiko Tsubaki, Hirokazu Tokuyama, and Haruko Kamakura focused their choice of 25 locally active and mostly young artists/artist groups around …
By speaking with the artist, I learned about his sophisticated technique that has evolved over two decades of painting and sculpting. After that I did one at the Maronie Gallery in Kyoto, follow…
His mesmerizing Water Block glass benches have been a permanent fixture there since 2011. Now those in Tokyo can enjoy Yoshioka’s “Glass Project.” This small exhibition at 21_21 Design Site Gall…
As soon as you pick up Brian Ashcraft and Hori Benny’s Japanese Tattoos: History Culture Design (Tuttle, 2016), you know you are in for a whirlwind tour of the unique world of irezumi tattoos. J…
A distinctive alternative art space was recently founded in down-town Tokyo in October 2015. Situated in the backstreets of Asakusa – one of the most popular tourist districts in Tokyo – th…
Sumi Hayashi is a veteran curator whose resume includes Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Yokohama Triennale 2014, and the 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh. TAB: TRANS– bills itself as “an …
