Almost four feet tall, the work has a machine-made look and is unique; it was originally shown at Ota Fina Arts in Tokyo. One photographer in the sale is Cao Fei, whose work is included in "Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum. ... full story
Plenty of specially commissioned art and sculpture adorns the walls and surfaces. The bronze “sweeping monks” in the area where the nightly jazz band play particularly took my fancy. The lighting and bespoke lamp designs are wonderful. ... full story
1938) aimed his camera at the streets of Tokyo, looking to capture images that would illuminate, in subtle ways, the impact of modernization on a centuries-old culture. The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a number of these striking black-and-white ... full story
The shop is supervised by Yoshitaka Haba, who is responsible for the selection of books and other items at Tsutaya Tokyo Roppongi and Souvenir From Tokyo at the National Art Centre, Tokyo. “You can find things here not usually seen at conventional ... full story
TOKYO.- After its trailblazing debut in 2005, Art Fair Tokyo has procured its position as Japan s most anticipated art fair and soared to the vanguard of the Asian art world with its devotion to diverse and unique works of art. ... 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
Kubota was 20-year-old textile artist in 1937 when he saw a 350-year-old silk fragment displayed at the Tokyo National Museum. The remnant displayed the lost textile process of tsujigahana (tsu-jee-ga-ha-na), intricate layered dyeings combined with ... full story
Art historian Ralph Jentsch, organizer of several Grosz exhibitions over the years, acts as an executor of the artist's estate, and presently heads efforts to retrieve his works from museums in New York, Tokyo, Bremen and Vienna. ... full story
By Laura Seewoester Frances Bagley's Absence/Presence won an award in the 10th Kajima Sculpture Exhibition held in Tokyo. Dallas artist Frances Bagley has a boastful Resume, including a laundry list of exhibitions, Bagley's work is included in several ... full story
BERLIN, March 29, (AFP): New York’s MoMa, Tokyo’s Bridgestone Museum and Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art have one thing in common: they will all have some blank wall-space to fill if Marty Grosz gets his way. The 79-year-old jazz musician is the son of ... full story
