TEHRAN -- The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) has lent a Jackson Pollock painting to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo to go on display at “Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective”. The show will be running from February 10 to May 6 ... full story
Now through to December 18 you have your opportunity to let robots get closer to you at an art installation, Desire of Codes, at the InterCommunication Center in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. The artist Mikami Seiko set up walls covered with small robotic ... full story
Robot arm cameras hang from the ceiling in Mikami Seiko's dizzying installation "Desire of Codes," now showing at the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo. The large installation consists of 6 cameras on robot arms and 90 wall-mounted moving ... full story
Unfortunately, the poems, which are her strongest weapons [often commenting on the role of women in society], aren't translated into other languages, but this only makes her, and her art, more mysterious. Aiko was born in Tokyo and is based in New York ... full story
In other words, it's more like a piece of art. To portray some 20 exhibition rooms and other museum facilities on the map, Saito has put together square or rectangular panels of materials with different textures, such as wood, fabric, metal and stone. ... full story
Since July last year it has been the site of one of Tokyo's newest — and most unlikely — art schools. Demystifying culture: Coordinator of the "Seminars on Japanese Art and Culture" series, Associate Professor Kenji Yanai, says the course — with ... full story
(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government said it has launched a campaign to promote creative industries in Tokyo with the aim of strengthening the brand value of the capital and increasing the number of foreign tourists. Art ... full story
The term was invented in 1872 by a French art critic and collector to reflect the West's infatuation with all things Japanese, which ignited soon after Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the US Navy stationed his warships in Edo (Tokyo) Harbor in 1854 and ... full story
Recently, a selection of highlights from SAM's Asian art collection traveled throughout Japan, where they were enthusiastically received from Tokyo to Fukuoka. To celebrate the homecoming of these Asian treasures, SAM is mounting a major exhibition in ... full story
National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, in partnership with Prado museum, will host the exhibition “Goya : Light and Shade, Masterpieces from the Museo del Prado”, from 22 October to 29 January 2012. The show will display over a hundred of Goya's ... full story
