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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A DOUBLE DOSE OF PICASSO'S PERSONAL COLLECTIONS
Nu couche (1932 ) Picasso is sometimes accused of being too prolific, dashing off paintings and other artworks as if there were no tomorrow...
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
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...
WERNER BISCHOF: JAPAN BOUNCING BACK
Perhaps the best free exhibition in town at the moment is Werner Bischof Photographic Exhibition “Japon” at the National Showa Memorial Mus...
HITOMI UCHIKURA: MIRRORING THE FUNDAMENTAL LIFE FORCE
One of Uchikura's "Shining Cells" Nothing is more elemental or common than light. Although taken for granted, it is the li...
THE RAW VISION OF AKIRA KUROSAWA
The Fall of the Third Castle - A Hedgehog (Kagemusha) Film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is perhaps more famous outside Japan than any...
THE CIVILIZING CERAMICS OF WEDGWOOD
Jasperware Despite fears that England is increasingly becoming an unpleasant and vulgar country with an antisocial ‘yob culture,’ inte...
THE NANCY BOYS
When you write about Art Nouveau here in Japan you are expected to mention the strong Japanese influences in this late 19th century...
ANDY WARHOL: 15 MINUTES ETERNAL
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait. 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen . Andy Warhol is not everyone’s cup of tea, but even if you thin...
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