On 21st August 2012 Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod launched the digital edition of Art Space Tokyo. As well as releasing the book online it is also now available across all digital publishing platforms. The original version of Art Space Tokyo was a 272 ...full story
AMHERST, MA.- On Saturday, August 25, 2012, Amherst College's Mead Art Museum opened Reinventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination, the first exhibition ever held in the United States to consider portrayals of Tokyo in light of ...full story
The city is home to more than 240 museums, such as the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and the Nerima Art Museum, plus an array of magnificent temples and shrines. For the arts and crafts lover, visit Tokyo's arts and crafts scene at the Edo Shitamachi ...full story
Today sees the digital launch of Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod's Art Space Tokyo, a guide to 12 galleries and other cultural spots in and around Japan's capital. The book is great; it's beautifully laid out and features insightful essays by and ...full story
Now, 40 years later, “Gutai: The Spirit of an Era” Exhibition is being showcased at The National Art Center, Tokyo. It is the first major retrospective on “Gutai” art in Tokyo. The exhibition runs through Sept. 10. Gutai has remained hugely popular in ...full story
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama works at her studio, filled with wall-sized paintings throbbing with her repetitive dots, in Tokyo. Kusama's signature splash of dots has now arrived in the realm of fashion in a new collection from French ...full story
Louis Vuitton had already scored success 10 years ago by collaborating on a bag line with another Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami. The latest Kusama collection is showcased at its boutiques around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo and ...full story
Louis Vuitton had already scored success 10 years ago by collaborating on a bag line with another Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami. The latest Kusama collection is showcased at its boutiques around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo and ...full story
The Gutai group, an influential Kansai-area abstract art movement from the 1950s-70s got considerable attention outside Japan, but never really got much respect at home. Will an ambitious retrospective exhibition now on at the National Art Center in ...full story
Entering the “GUTAI – The Spirit of an Era” exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo you pass through a doorway clad in an oversized sheet of torn gold paper; the feeling is that of having arrived after the event. For those who have even a very ...full story