By Robert Michael Poole What: Known more for its late night bars and clubs than for culture, the downtown area of Roppongi is set to host its all-night Art Night for a third year. With the main action happening from Saturday 5:56 pm (sunset) to Sunday ...full story
Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is expected to be among as many as 700000 art lovers and artists taking to the streets of the Roppongi district of Tokyo over the weekend of March 24 and 25 for the city's annual all-night art event.Add Another Dot To The Birthday Cake: Yayoi Kusama Turns 83!Huffington Postfull story
A masterpiece by US artist Jackson Pollock titled "Mural on Indian Red Ground" is being exhibited at a Tokyo museum after being kept in Iran since the 1970s. The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art is holding an exhibition of Pollock (1912-1956), ...full story
Tokyo's Roppongi district is a spectacle at the best of times, but come March 24, it promises to outdo even itself. Roppongi Art Night is the one time of the year when everyone in the Japanese art world can let their hair down.full story
Art Fair Tokyo's seventh edition will take place from 30 March to 1 April 2012. In 2011, the fair had to be postponed due to the earthquake which struck Japan on 11 March. This year its exhibition area will increase in size, stretching across the ...full story
Lighting fires is also an image used in the video installation by the artist collective Chim ↑Pom, who lit fires in a suburb of Tokyo to create visual images and words. The video is accompanied by a music piece, making the video all the more ...full story
In the past 12 years, Tao Art Gallery has held many major solo shows and represented art in various prestigious international spaces like London, Tokyo, Singapore, Bali and New York. In 2002, 'The Eternal Enchantress of Devdas', was an iconic solo show ...full story
Raymond Gill finds the energy of Tokyo's street life is the ideal backdrop to a tour of its contemporary art. Travellers to cities whose names feature on perfume bottles - London, Paris, New York - routinely spend time in major public galleries.and more »full story
“Practically every exhibition and art event held after the... earthquake has implicitly or explicitly responded to these life changing events,” says Emily Wakeling, a curator and art researcher working in Tokyo. “The majority of artists' responses have ...full story
“Practically every exhibition and art event held after the ... earthquake has implicitly or explicitly responded to these life changing events,” says Emily Wakeling, a curator and art researcher working in Tokyo. “The majority of artists' responses ...full story