OSAKA--It was an e-mail inquiry from a reader that alerted us to an intriguing piece of art sitting quietly atop a building in Honmachi, the bustling business district here in Osaka. Called the "Honmachi Building," the modest nine-story structure ... full story
By now, the looks, character and history of Gutai, the post-World War II Japanese art movement born in 1954 in Ashiya, between Osaka and Kobe, are familiar to regular viewers of modern-art exhibitions in Japan. Last summer's “Gutai: The Spirit of an ... full story
An array of curators, critics and academics in the 20th century worked to codify a tidy, sequential history of that transformative era's art, overlooking, ignoring and marginalizing scores of artists whose work didn't fit their narrative. A little more ... full story
This one has ties to the Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as one of the world's great conceptual thinkers. A wave of 25 artists from Osaka, Japan, will descend on the city next week with new ideas about what art is. The artists are inheritors of ... full story
Osaka.com has been developed by CitiesPlanet.com, the largest network of City.com brands in the industry along with Allan Hsu a Japan-fanatic who has a passion for everything Japan, especially Osaka. Osaka.com CEO Allan Hsu stated “It has been a great ... full story
The first thing about this book is: the art is great. Francois Schuiten & Benoit Peeters, authors of the steampunk-ish "Cities of the Fantastic" series, draw future Osaka as a science fiction paradise. In their Osaka 2034, gardens, restaurants (with ... full story
OSAKA--A retrospective exhibition of the Gutai avant-garde art movement, which originated in the Kansai region after World War II, will be held at New York's Guggenheim Museum from Feb. 15 to May 8. The exhibition, titled Gutai: Splendid Playground ... full story
OSAKA, Dec. 13 — A special Techno-Art event called ” Asia Student Creative Exchange” was held in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Thursday. Organized by the Osaka-based association Knowledge Capital in cooperation with Hong Kong Cyberport, ... full story
Another thought-provoking work playing with the concept of time is Away, by Osaka-born Yukihiro Taguchi, who painstakingly pieces together thousands of single-frame images to create fascinating videos. For this exhibition, Taguchi, who is based in ... full story
Yokoo's "Pink Girls" series, part of his solo exhibition in Osaka in 1966, was the artist's debut as a painter, and it featured immodest forms of women in shades of hot pink with big breasts, mouths agape, hairy armpits and low-angled up-skirt points ... full story
