THE KANO SCHOOL IN EDO
Papa Birds and Monkeys by Naonobu Kano, 17th Century Credit: Idemitsu Museum of Art In the history of Japanese art, no family plays a bigger...
DALI: MULTIFACETED
Javanese Mannequin (detail) Even people who detested Dali’s perverse personality, gentle association with Fascism, and occasional forays int...
DAIDO MORIYAMA: HOKKAIDO
Daido Moriyama is a legend of Japanese photography. He is well known for his raw, gritty, and often decentred images. My video of his work ...
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: VARIOUS ARCHETYPES
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Saint Benedict Chapel (Architect: Peter Zumthor ) 2000/01 gelatin silver print 149.2×119.4 cm ©Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courte...
BRUEGHEL IN BLACK AND WHITE
Just for the record, it wasn’t a gang of Gauloises-smoking, coffee-swigging Frenchmen in 1920s Paris who invented surrealism. Nor was it Man...
TAKANORI KINOSHITA & JAPAN'S POST-WAR POSE
Seated Ballerina in Red Tutu (undated) The history of modern Japanese art has a hierarchy of narratives. As in the West, the top narrative i...
THE COOL NIHONGA OF KANZAN SHIMOMURA
Mona Lisa or "Avalokitesvara Bearing a Fish Basket” (c. 1927)? Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, givi...
SHUT UP YOU PATRIARCHS, SOME FEMINIST ART IS TALKING
I don’t normally visit exhibitions in company, but this time I made an exception, and press-ganged a female acquaintance to join me. The rea...
THE HAKONE GLASS FOREST IS EVERYTHING IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
In the Middle Ages, before the dawn of science, alchemists tried to find ways to make gold. Of course their efforts were futile, but where ...
INOSUKE HAZAMA: COLOURING JAPAN'S CONNECTION TO THE WEST
HAZAMA Inosuke, Recollection of Kugenuma, 1937, Hazama Inosuke Museum One of the two shows now on at the Artizon focuses on the life and wo...
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