Topic Archives: Japanese

Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton continues to push fashion and art collaboration to the cutting edge as his partnership with the contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama proves.

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The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in cooperation with the Japan Foundation attempts to show art that has been influenced by Japan’s Tōhoku earthquake.

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Art Radar lists the twenty artists chosen for solo exhibitions at TWS-Hongo studio by TWS-Emerging in 2011 and takes a closer look at five of them.

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Yoko Ono is to hold her first Indian solo in January 2012 at Vadehra Gallery in New Delhi, The Times of India reported on 3 December 2011.

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Five artists from across the Asian region have been named as winners in the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011. Filipino Rodel Tapaya took home the Grand Prize.

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Japanese-style houses built in Taiwan at the turn of the century are the subject in a new series by photographer Tomoko Yoneda, called “Japanese House”.

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Art Radar reports from the auction room of Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary Asian Art on October 3, 2011. The 176-lot sale featured two ‘premium’ works, and revealed lagging enthusiasm in the contemporary Asian art market

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Two out of the three artists on Artprice’s top ten list of best auction results generated by Japanese artists (August 2011) are contemporary: Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama.

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Thirty-year-old Japanese artist Hirotoshi Iwasaki combines drawing and animation to create flip book-like artworks and video pieces that explore time, memory and space.

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In this continuation of our ongoing series of list posts, we look at how the photography market is growing in Asia by linking to the best posts on this topic from our archives.

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We look at what critics are saying about ”Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity”, which opened in June 2011 at the Guggenheim in New York and is the artists’ first American retrospective.

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In this joyous video a child runs excitedly around Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Dots Mirrored Room (1996), on display at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, USA.

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In an article for ART IT, columist Kyoichi Tsuzuki takes some time to show us how art has been utilised by Japanese people during and after horrific and extreme events.

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JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIST INTERVIEW Master post-war Japanese photographers Kozo Miyoshi and Asako Narahashi have been practising photography from the era before digital for over thirty years, and both are deeply revered by today’s contemporary photographers. We couldn’t resist giving you a heads … Continue reading →

Art Radar looks at Tokyo Visualist, a book that helps readers access the world of Japanese contemporary art through interviews, essays and artist biographies.

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The Merlion Hotel could be considered the centre piece of the 2011 Singapore Biennale. What has response has it engendered from the public and critics?

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New works by Takashi Murakami snapped up in Taipei with the USD459,000 proceeds being donated to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief effort.

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Ko Nakajima and Kentaro Taki exhibited new video installations as part of the Visual Art programme of the Auckland Arts Festival 2011. We profile the artists and their work.

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Report by The Japan Times on cutting-edge exhibitions organised by Japanese curator group 0000 that drew attention (and funds) from Takashi Murakami.

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While Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, perhaps unsurprisingly, claimed top spot with the channel’s video on his much-discussed Tate Modern exhibition, Sunflower Seeds, it seemed viewers thought that what Japanese Takashi Murakami had to say was worth third place in this list.

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KOREA ART EXHIBITIONS BIENNALES ART EVENTS EMERGING ARTISTS The Busan Biennale 2010 will be held from 11 September until 20 November at several locations in Busan, including the Busan Museum of Art, as well as at the nearby Yachting Center … Continue reading →

JAPANESE KOREAN ARTIST MUSEUM OPENINGS MODERNISM An article by The Japan Times covers the opening of a brand new art museum in Japan dedicated to the Korean-born artist Lee Ufan. The article features an extensive interview in which the artist … Continue reading →

JAPANESE ARTIST INTERVIEW PAINTING DRAWING EMERGING ARTISTS Eight years ago, Japanese artist Hiroshige Fukuhara was building up a successful career as a promising contemporary artist. He showed work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2001 then disappeared from the contemporary … Continue reading →

ART GALLERIES OPENINGS JAPANESE ART TAIWANESE ART PAINTING As reported in a recent Taiwan News article, world-renowned contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami opened a new art gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, at the end of June this year. Named the Kaikai Kiki … Continue reading →

TATE MODERN ARTS FESTIVALS ASIAN ART INSTITUTIONS LISTS In celebration of the Tate Modern‘s tenth birthday, thirteen Asian art institutions were invited to join global arts festival No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents in early May this year. The event brought … Continue reading →