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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]
MAY 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
• Jack McLean at the Container [Artforum]
• Yasuo Higa at the Izu Photo Museum [Artscape International]
• Firoz Mahmud at Ota Fine Arts [TAB]
Features
• Yuken Teruya [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Quakes and Arts [Realtokyo]
APRIL 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
• “Happy Mind – My Pleasure” at Misako & Rosen [ART iT]
• “Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [ART iT]
• Takehiko Higuchi at the Hiratsuka Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• “Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• “Kuramata Shiro, Ettore Sottsass” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• Sakae Ozawa at Mori Yu Gallery [TAB]
• Iichiro Tanaka at Yuka Sasahara Gallery [TAB]
• Tomoko Konoike at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
Features
• Art Charities for the Tohoku Disaster [Artscape International]
• Tadashi Kawamata [TAB]
• Third Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions [TAB]
News
• Koji Taki (1928–2011) [ART iT]
FEBRUARY 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
• Yasumasa Morimura at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art [Artscape International]
• “Global Ends: Towards the Beginning” at Gallery Ma [Artscape International]
• Reikisai Kobayashi at the Tobacco & Salt Museum [Artscape International]
• Tadasu Takamine at the Yokohama Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Torawo Nakagawa at Kodama Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• “Creative Fantasista” at Vacant [Japan Times]
• “How is the World Engaging with Contemporary Asian Art?” Symposium at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Paule Saviano at Gallery éf [Japan Times]
• Shindo Tsuji at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Be Alive! – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection” at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Lee Ufan at SCAI the Bathhouse [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Yutaka Sone [ART iT]
• Motohiko Odani [TAB]
Features
• Tomoo Gokita Studio Visit [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Additional Photos from Tomoo Gokita Studio Visit [ArtAsiaPacific]
• Outsider Calligraphy [ART iT]
• Taiji Matsue (Part II) [ART iT]
• G-tokyo Contemporary Art Fair [Japan Times]
• Shigeo Goto and the Tokyo Frontline Art Fair at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• Art and Theater [Realtokyo]
• The Nagoya commercial gallery scene [TAB]
• Festival/Tokyo [TAB]
News
• New Gallery Building Opens in Roppongi [ArtAsiaPacific]
JANUARY 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
• Aki Sasamoto at Take Ninagawa [Artforum]
• Tadasu Takamine at the Yokohama Museum of Art [ART iT]
• DanDans at Bulgari Ginza Tower [Artscape International]
• “GA Japan 2010: Contemporary Japanese Architects” at GA Gallery [Artscape International]
• Mizuki Shigeru at the Hachijoji Yume Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Masatoshi Sakaegi at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• Saburo Aso at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Aki Sasamoto at Take Ninagawa [Japan Times]
• Lee Ufan at SCAI The Bathhouse [TAB]
• Motohiko Odani at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• Oscar Tuazon and Gardar Eide Einarsson at Rat Hole Gallery [Tokyo Weekender]
• Ai Weiwei at Misa Shin Gallery [Tokyo Weekender]
• Motohiko Odani at the Mori Art Museum [Tokyo Weekender]
• “Transformation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Tokyo Weekender]
Interviews
• Yutaka Sone [ART iT]
• Misa Shin [TAB]
• Sou Fujimoto [Tokyo Weekender]
Features
• Taiji Matsue (Part I) [ART iT]
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
• Katsuhiko Hibino at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• Tomoki Kurokawa at Nanzuka Underground [Artscape International]
• “Snapshots Cast Their Spell” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Japan Times]
• “Primary Field II” at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama [Japan Times]
• “Reality Lab” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Ichiro Fukuzawa and His Disciples” at the Itabashi Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “Collection 3: Japanese Art 1950–2010” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Japan Times]
• Dominique Perrault at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [Japan Times]
• Shinya Aota at Aoyama | Meguro [TAB]
• “Global Ends: Towards the Beginning” at Gallery Ma [TAB]
Features
• 0000 Collective [Japan Times]
• Tokyo Art Meeting at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Katsuhiro Yamaguchi [ART iT]
• Things Worth Remembering 2010” [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
• Koga Harue at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama [Artscape International]
• “U-30: Under 30 Architects exhibition” at ODP Design Gallery, Kyoto [Artscape International]
• Junya Ishigami at Shiseido Gallery [Realtokyo]
• Kenji Yanobe at Yamamoto Gendai [TAB]
• “Tokyo Art Meeting: Transformation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
• Kiyoshi Suzuki at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Features
• Print exhibitions at Kichijoji Art Museum [Artscape International]
• Fram Kitagawa and the Setouchi International Art Festival [The Internetwork]
• Three architecture exhibitions: Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami and “City 2.0” [Realtokyo]
• Tokyo FILMeX [TAB]
Nakaochiai Gallery Closing
I’m sorry to report that after six years of exhibitions, Nakaochiai Gallery is holding its closing party on November 27.
Having long been involved in art projects all over Tokyo, the owners, Julia Barnes and Clint Taniguchi, have decided to move their home to Mejiro and continue their art activities without a permanent gallery space.
The only other featured gallery to have closed in the two and a half years since Art Space Tokyo was first published is Project Space Kandada, run by the nonprofit artist collective commandN. However, like Nakaochiai they were not shutting down their operations but were relocating and expanding them elsewhere, at their new initiative, the 3331 Arts Chiyoda center.
When Craig and I chose the 12 spaces to feature in the book, we did try to choose those with longevity. After all, we were looking for some of the most architecturally and historically distinctive galleries and museums, so the fact that most of them are located in striking, often purpose-built buildings makes them less likely to relocate.
But it was inevitable that some would, and Project Space Kandada and Nakaochiai were the two that we suspected would be most likely to do so. But it’s important to remember that we also chose these spaces because of the fascinating neighborhoods they are in. We want our readers to continue to explore the secondhand bookstores of Kanda and the old-world residential backstreets of Nakaochiai. Keep wandering!
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
• Taiji Matsue at Taro Nasu [Artforum]
• Ryota Aoki at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Jae-Eun Choi at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Jae-Eun Choi at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• “Love’s Body: Art in the Age of AIDS” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Masahiko Sato at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Roni Horn” at Rat Hole Gallery [TAB]
Interviews
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part One) [ART iT]
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part Two) [ART iT]
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Part Three) [ART iT]
• Peter Fischli and David Weiss [Japan Times]
Features
• The Future of Setouchi and Aichi” [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
• Yurie Nagashima at SCAI The Bathhouse [ART iT]
• The Aichi Triennale in Nagoya [Artscape International]
• “Sensing Nature: Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Anpo: Art x War” at Uplink Factory [TAB]
Interviews
• Kazuyo Sejima [ART iT]
• Ryue Nishizawa [ART iT]
• Junya Ishigami [ART iT]
• Sou Fujimoto [ART iT]
• Mika Tajima [ART iT]
• Takashi Murakami [New York – Tokyo]
• Takashi Murakami [Vernissage TV]
Features
• Tatsumi Orimoto [art.es]
• Tsuneko Sasamoto [Japan Times]
• Shoen Uemura [Japan Times]
• The Aichi Triennale 2010 [Artscape International]
• Shinro Ohtake [Designboom]
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.
Reviews
• Yuichi Higashionna at NADiff Gallery 2F [Artscape International]
• Man Ray at the National Art Center, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Innocence – Art Towards Life” at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts [Japan Times]
• Paramodel at Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto [Japan Times]
• Christian Boltanski at the Setouchi International Art Festival [Japan Times]
• Robert Waters at Mizuma Art Gallery [TAB]
• Mamoru at Yuka Contemporary [TAB]
• Isao Sugiyama at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP [TAB]
• The Tokyo Art Book Fair at 3331 Arts Chiyoda [TAB]
Interviews
• Takashi Murakami [Interview Magazine]
• Lee Ufan [Japan Times]
Features
• Yuuki Matsumura [ART iT]
• Setouchi International Art Festival [Japan Times]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Japan Times]
• The Aichi Triennale [Japan Times]
• Shinro Ohtake’s Indexical Survey of Tokyo in the Age of Cinema [ART iT]
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And when an interview with the Maestro himself isn’t enough, here’s your Murakami Moment of the Month:
• Murakami’s planned show at Versailles riles right-wing critics
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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.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” [Artforum]
• Makoto Aida at Mizuma Art Gallery [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Toyoshige Watanabe at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura [Japan Times]
• William Eggleston at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Fergus Freehily at Misako & Rosen [Japan Times]
• “From the 11th Chinese National Art Exhibition 2009: Contemporary Fine Art from China” at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Japan Times]
• Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “Open Space 2010” at the NTT Inter Communication Center [TAB]
• Genichiro Inokuma at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [TAB]
• Ritsuko Yamashita at hpgrp Gallery Tokyo [TAB]
• Seiichi Furuya at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Pawel Jaszczuk at Zen Foto Gallery [TAB]
• “Where Is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Aki Sasamoto [ART iT]
• William Eggleston [Japan Times]
• David Elliott [Japan Times]
Features
• Wilhelm Sasnal [ART iT]
• Jean Fabre [ART iT]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• Teratotera Art Project [TAB]
Obits
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [ART iT]
• Remembering Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [The Guardian]
MAY 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.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• Yoshiji Takehara at Gallery MA [Artscape]
• “Plastic Memories – To Illuminate ‘Now’” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi: Alternative Humanities” [Japan Times]
• Ryoichi Yamazaki at Nakaochiai Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Akihisa Hirata x SHIMABUROS.” at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto [Japan Times]
• “Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Mika Ninagawa at G/P Gallery [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Aleksandr Rodchenko + Varvara Stepanova: Visions of Contructivism” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum [TAB]
Interviews
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 2) [ART iT]
• Nobuyoshi Araki [Japan Times]
• Kohei Nawa [Studio Banana TV]
• Noriyuki Haraguchi [TAB]
Features
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape]
• Toshiki Okada [Realtokyo]
Obits
• Ichiro Haryu (1925–2010) [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
APRIL 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.
Reviews
• “Design-Conscious Apartments Then and Now”at Misawa Homes Seminar Hall [Artscape]
• John Lurie at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Art Fair Tokyo [TAB]
• Ryoko Kimura at Kido Press [TAB]
Interviews
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 2) [ART iT]
Features
• Yoshinari Nishio in Nairobi [Artscape]
• Boat People Association and Tokyo Artpoint Project [Artscape]
• The Galapagosi-isation of the Japanese art scene [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Masato Nakamura and Takashi Murakami [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Teppei Kaneuji, Koki Tanaka and Tatzu Nishi [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Fram Kitagawa and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Shinji Kohmoto [Japan Times]
• Johnny Walker and the Bacon Prize [Japan Times]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
MARCH 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.
Reviews
• “Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape]
• Hisashi Hojin at Prismic Gallery [Artscape]
• Taiji Kiyokawa at Kiyokawa Taiji Memorial Gallery [Japan Times]
• Takuya Tsukahara at Syadai Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Life=Works=Projects” at 21_21 Design Sight [Japan Times]
• “Chronicle 1945, 1951, 1957: A Revision of Postwar Japanese Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “MAM Project: Jules de Balincourt” at the Mori Art Museum [Japan Times]
• Book Review: “Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s” [NYAB]
• Yasumasa Morimura at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Life=Works=Projects” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• MOT Annual 2010 - Neo-ornamentalism at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Nara Yoshitomo [ART iT]
• Dan Graham [Japan Times]
• Yasumasa Morimura [Japan Times]
• TABuzz #12:Tony
About & Community
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.
