REBECCA HORN: SAD WINGS OF DESTINY
The German artist Rebecca Horn recently passed away . Here is my review of her 2009 Tokyo show published in Metropolis magazine. As it stan...
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WHEN "JESUS CHRIST" VANDALISED MICHELANGELO'S PIETA
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SHUNSO ISHIDA, RADICAL TRADITIONALIST
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MASAHISA FUKASE: THE SOLITUDE OF RAVENS
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SASAE ONO: X-RAYED WOMAN
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CHINA'S SOFT POWER OFFENSIVE DRAWS BIG CROWDS IN TOKYO
Emperor Qian Long by the Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione Chinese culture is on the long, slow rebound. Back in 1989, the government wa...
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