Titled "City of the future, floating on air, reaching for the sky," the structure seems an ideal gateway to the world of modernist art in Tokyo, a city that crawled from the rubble of World War II and achieved high economic growth. The exhibition ...full story
"Not only for its subject matter, but for the idea that a comic book could present this type of material and present it very powerfully." "I wanted to put down on paper the scenes engraved in my mind," Nakazawa told Tokyo's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2009.full story
Art Fair Tokyo was bigger—and, in some people's opinions, better— this year, taking up about twice as much space in Tokyo International Forum's main exhibition hall than in previous events. The young contemporary galleries, instead of having their ...full story
1 p.m. - With the construction of several new museums in recent years, Roppongi is now billing itself as "Art Triangle Roppongi." Within a short walking distance are the Mori Art Museum, the Suntory Museum of Art, and The National Art Center, Tokyo.and more »full story
While World War II devastated the Japan's infrastructure, the '50s and '60s were a time of transformation in the city of Tokyo, creating a path for new generations of artists and intellectuals and establishing the city as an international epicenter for ...full story
These are a few of an artist's favorite things—a giant blender shredding pretty young girls into a bloody milkshake; mountains of dead businessmen; and a giant woman being raped and killed by a giant three-headed dragon. The said favorites are images ...full story
Surrealism and performance art flourished, in groups like Jikken Kobo, a collective of 14 artists that popularized performance art and modern dance in Japan. Their work is largely unknown outside of Japan. As The New York Times notes, one of the most ...full story
Tokyo gallery to borrow Slav Epic. ČTK |. 28 November 2012. Prague, Nov 27 (CTK) - The Prague City Hall yesterday nodded to the loan of the Slav Epic monumental cycle by Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha to Japan for an exhibition in Tokyo in 2017.full story
In a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde,” curator Doryun Chong presents some 200 pieces from that period by over 60 artists and collectives. Many of them are rare: unless you have been hanging around ...full story
The new art follows two previous reveals of storyboard art from the project with three CGI cityscapes that give a sneak peak at what Neo Tokyo could have looked like had director Albert Hughes stayed with the movie, as well as some sketches imagining ...full story