Showing posts with label Yokohama Museum of Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yokohama Museum of Art. Show all posts
DUCHAMP: SEPARATING THE ARTIST FROM THE ARTISAN

DUCHAMP: SEPARATING THE ARTIST FROM THE ARTISAN

Large Glass Rembrandt was a dauber, Michelangelo a chiseler. Both, like so many other workers in oils or stone, were, despite the subl...
TADASU TAKAMINE - TAKING THE PISS

TADASU TAKAMINE - TAKING THE PISS

Too Far to See - ecological artwork? In their endless efforts to make us see things in new ways and generally mess with our minds, contempor...
TABAIMO DISSECTS JAPAN'S "LOST GENERATION"

TABAIMO DISSECTS JAPAN'S "LOST GENERATION"

Yudangami, 2009, video installation For the Frankfurt School of Marxist cultural thinkers, the difference between “negative” and “af...
DEGAS: DE-IDEALIZING THE NUDE

DEGAS: DE-IDEALIZING THE NUDE

After the Bath—Woman Drying Herself, 1896, and the photo that it is based on. When you have an exhibition of an artist as famous a...
French Masterpieces from the Pushkin

French Masterpieces from the Pushkin

Jupiter and Callisto, 1744 There are a lot of people who wish that art had simply stopped around 1911 or so. If it had, we would ha...
Collection: Skull Doodle by Doctor Lakra

Collection: Skull Doodle by Doctor Lakra

Back in 2008 I was covering the "Goth" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art for the International Herald Tribune Asahi S...
The Bewitching Art of Fuyuko Matsui

The Bewitching Art of Fuyuko Matsui

Photo: C.B.Liddell There's something bewitching about Fuyuko Matsui. I mean that in both senses of the word. Yes, she's rathe...