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Ten Best Galleries and Works of Architecture on The Guardian
The Guardian has just launched its Tokyo City Guide, a fantastic interactive look at the city that includes recommendations for the best restaurants, hotels, bars, and clubs. Their summary of typical salaryman hangouts is a great alternative look at life in Tokyo.
I was asked to contribute my ten favorite galleries and museums, and my ten favorite architectural highlights. All of these locations are marked on a Google map of the city that you can play with here. The top ten galleries and works of architecture also have their own separate pages if you want to read them without having to click between from one to the other.
DECEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• Tomoko Yoneda at Shugoarts [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Art Radar Asia]
• “Art Scope 2009–2011: invisible Memories” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Artscape International]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow – New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Artscape International]
• Jikken Kobo at Bétonsalon, Paris [Frieze]
• Kaori Watanabe at Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Makoto Aida at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo [Japan Times]
• Rika Noguchi at the Izu Photo Museum [Japan Times]
• “311 Lost Homes” at Gallery Ma [Japan Times]
• POPCORART at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• Yoko Ono at Gallery 360˚ and Tomio Koyama Gallery [TAB]
• Tokyo FILMeX 2011 at Yurakucho Asahi Hall [TAB]
Features
• Things Worth Remembering in 2011 by Erimi Fujihara [ART iT]
• Things Worth Remembering in 2011 by the editors [ART iT]
• Lieko Shiga [ART iT]
• Simon Starling / Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) [ART iT]
• Mariko Mori at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media [Designboom]
• Kazuyo Sejima [Domus]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Domus]
• Sou Fujimoto [Domus]
• Rue Nishizawa [Domus]
• Seeking solace in artistic responses to March 11 [Japan Times]
• 2011 – The Year in Review [TAB]
• “Architectural Environments for Tomorrow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
News
• Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) [ART iT]
• Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) [ART iT]
NOVEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• Chu Enoki at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• Motoi Yamamoto at the Hakone Open-Air Museum [Artscape International]
• Kenji Yanobe at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum [Japan Times]
• Alyson Shotz at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Irving Penn and Issey Miyake at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Villa Tokyo in the Kyobashi, Nihombashi & Kudanshita area [TAB]
Interviews
• Sputniko! [TAB]
• Shozo Ichiyama, program director of Tokyo FILMeX [TAB]
Features
• Tadashi Kawamata [ART iT]
• Florian Busch [Japan Times]
• The Teratotera Festival in Kichijoji [TAB]
• Christan Marclay’s “The Clock” at the Yokohama Triennale [Realtokyo]
OCTOBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• “Metabolism, The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• “Shin Minatomura: A Small City for the Future” at BankART [Artscape International]
• Chim↑Pom at The Container [Japan Times]
• “Berlin 2000–2011: Playing Among the Ruins” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Tadao Ando at Gallery GA [Japan Times]
• “Artgig Tokyo: Mummy Im Scarrred!” at Tamai Hospital [Japan Times]
• “Metabolism, The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Leo Rubinfien at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Alyson Shotz at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Rem Koolhaas and Fumio Nanjo on Metabolism [TAB]
Features
• Art Center Ongoing [Artscape International]
• Japanese arts course opens door to foreigners [Japan Times]
• Project Fukushima [Realtokyo]
SEPTEMBER ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• “House Inside City Outside House: Tokyo Metabolizing” at Tokyo Opera City Art Museum [Artforum]
• Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Artforum]
• Seiichi Furuya at Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin [Artscape International]
• Art Fair Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum [Artscape International]
• “House Inside City Outside House – Tokyo Metabolizing” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Artscape International]
• Hiroh Kikai at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Artscape International]
• ChimPom at Mujin-to Production [Japan Times]
• Arata Isozaki at Misa Shin Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Metabolism: The City of the Future” at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
Interviews
• Miwa Yanagi [ART iT]
Features
• The relationship between Japan’s corporate sector and the art world [TAB]
AUGUST ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• Kohei Nawa at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Artforum]
• Tadaaki Kuwayama at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at the Mori Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Chim↑Pom at Mujin-to Production [Artscape International]
• Art Fair Tokyo at the Tokyo International Forum [Art Newspaper]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Scottish National Museum of Art [Culture 24]
• Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Scottish National Museum of Art [Guardian]
• “Café in Mito” at Art Tower Mito [Japan Times]
• Yayoi Kusama at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Tsubasa Kato at SNAC and Kiba Park [TAB]
• The Yokohama Triennale at the Yokohama Museum of Art [TAB]
• Yoko Ono talk at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Koki Tanaka at Aoyama | Meguro [TAB]
• The Dojima River Biennale [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim Museum [VOA]
Interviews
• Yoko Ono [Boing Boing]
• Kohei Nawa [Japan Times]
• Tsuneo Enari at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Motoi Yamamoto [Japan Times]
Features
• Postcard from Japan [Frieze]
• Video on Chim↑Pom [Frontline / PBS]
• Video of photographs washed away by tsunami being restored and returned to their owners [Guardian]
• Quakes and Arts IV [Realtokyo]
• Molten glass pyrographs by Etsuko Ichikawa [Spoon & Tamago]
• Manga, sex and censorship [Yomiuri]
JULY ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
• “War Through the Eyes of Children: With the Help of Barefoot Gen” at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum [Artscape International]
• “Making of the Tokyo Sky Tree” at Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) [Artscape International]
• “Art of Photographing the Child” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• Rong Rong and Inri at Shiseido Gallery [Japan Times]
• “On the Road” at the National Museum of Modern Art [Japan Times]
• Ryoko Takahashi at Gallery Momo Ryogoku [TAB]
• Photo report on Art Fair Tokyo [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [AM New York]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [Art in America]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [The Financial Times]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [The Ranunculus]
• Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim [NY Times]
Features
• Recent exhibitions and publications about postwar Japanese art: Whose Modernism is it Anyway? [The Brooklyn Rail]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Huffington Post]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Spotlight on artists at Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
• The reconstruction of Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari [Japan Times]
• Quakes and Arts III on Chim↑Pom and their reaction to the nuclear crisis [Realtokyo]
• Chim↑Pom and guerrilla/graffiti art [Realtokyo]
• A Summer Night “Delusion” Tour with the Moso Café [TAB]
News
• Public to benefit from new art indemnity system [Japan Times]
JUNE ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites. For up-to-the-minute info on Japanese contemporary art, follow us on Twitter.
Reviews
• Xavier Veilhan at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo [Artforum]
• “NOART” at Taka Ishii Gallery [Artscape International]
• Masatsune Matsumura at Gallery A4 [Artscape International]
• Yukihiro Taguchi at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• LG Williams at the Container [Japan Times]
• Takashi Hinoda at Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• LG Williams at the Container [TAB]
• Kohei Nawa at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• “French Window” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Chim↑Pom at SNAC [TAB]
Interviews
• Jun Igarashi [Japan Times]
• Kim Sooja [ART iT]
Feature
• Tsuyoshi Ozawa & Relational Art [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Yukihiro Taguchi [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Tabaimo [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• “Inside Out” project [Japan Times]
• “Quakes and Arts II” [Realtokyo]
News
• Chim↑Pom inserts their own panel about nuclear disaster into Taro Okamoto’s mural in Shibuya Station [Asahi]
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A place to keep abreast of Art Space Tokyo related news, reviews, events and updates.
Art Space Tokyo is a 272 page guide to the Tokyo art world produced and published by Craig Mod & PRE/POST.
It was originally published in 2008 by Chin Music Press.
