By ROBBIE SWINNERTON It's always a pleasure to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) out in Koto Ward. The surrounding park is calm, the architecture of the museum exemplary, and the exhibitions invariably well curated. ... full story
His work has been the subject of several retrospectives in Denmark and abroad, most recently Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, held at the Royal Academy and the Museum of Western Art, Tokyo in 2008. full story
... his likeness continue to sell well in Tokyo's "otaku" (geek) district of Akihabara. The cultural affairs agency has reportedly requested 12 billion yen to create a national centre for media art that would promote Japanese pop culture overseas. ... full story
When Tokyo-based Art Restoration Studio 21 analyzed the painting with infrared photography in March this year, Bubnova's signature appeared in Russian. After the painting is restored, it is due to be put on display in June in a hall at Sendai Orthodox ... full story
Closes 5/31. Daido Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs - Approx. 45 photos taken in & around Tokyo in the 1980s. Closes 6/30. Henri Matisse & Modern Art on the French Riviera - 40 works from the Museum's collection & local private collections. Closes 11/1. $7. ... full story
The world of Japanese cartoons is to be immortalised in a £80 million (11.7 billion yen) national "anime shrine" to be built in Tokyo. By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo Soaring international popularity for contemporary Japaneses sub cultures such as anime ... full story
The images in greatest popular demand dealt with the Kabuki theater, life in the red light district of Edo, now Tokyo, or low-brow novels, and the illustrations could easily be interpreted as a metaphorical critique of the prevalent political and ... full story
The Cultural Affairs Agency wants nearly 12 billion yen to build a "National Comprehensive Centre for Media Art" that would showcase contemporary Japanese culture such as manga, anime and video games, the Asahi newspaper reported. ... full story
The thought of all this information might frighten many people, but for the artist Ryoji Ikeda it's inspiration for the artworks that can be seen in the new exhibition "+/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]" at the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT). ... full story
"Artist File 2009," a group show at The National Art Center Tokyo (NACT) till May 5, has none of these things. But this is not a typical group of artists, and the NACT is not your typical art space. With 14000 sq.-meters of exhibition space, ... full story
