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Monday, 2 March 2026

THE COOL NIHONGA OF KANZAN SHIMOMURA

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Mona Lisa or "Avalokitesvara Bearing a Fish Basket” (c. 1927)? Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, givi...
Tuesday, 20 January 2026

SHUT UP YOU PATRIARCHS, SOME FEMINIST ART IS TALKING

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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...
Sunday, 14 December 2025

THE HAKONE GLASS FOREST IS EVERYTHING IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE

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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 ...
Saturday, 12 April 2025

INOSUKE HAZAMA: COLOURING JAPAN'S CONNECTION TO THE WEST

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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...
Friday, 14 March 2025

REBECCA HORN: SAD WINGS OF DESTINY

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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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Friday, 31 January 2025

WHEN "JESUS CHRIST" VANDALISED MICHELANGELO'S PIETA

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If somebody had made a lifelike marble statue of you, lying dead in your mother's arms, what would you do? I know, it's a rather odd...
Thursday, 2 November 2023

ART INSPIRED BY THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF 7th OCTOBER

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One difference between people in Gaza and people in Israel in the present conflict between the two is that people in Israel are still able t...
Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Utopia: Zhu Wei

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The status of contemporary Chinese art often seems driven by the notion that China is projected to overtake America as the world's leadi...
Monday, 7 August 2023

The Spooky Side of Sanyutei Encho

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For all sorts of reasons, summer is the season of ghosts in Japan. Accordingly, The University Art Museum in Tokyo is presenting an exhibiti...
Saturday, 29 July 2023

SHUNSO ISHIDA, RADICAL TRADITIONALIST

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Fallen leaves (right panels), 1909-10 It’s no secret that the Japanese art world was going through major changes at the end of the 19th cent...
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