Take Ninagawa Opening
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Sachiko Muraoka at Ai Kawada gallery
“sleep on the ground,” oil on cotton, 1620 x 1303mm, 2010 One of the latest additions to the Kyosumi-Shirakawa art complex Ai Kawada Gallery is showing the new works by a young painter Sachiko Muraoka. The exhibition, entitled “weather report” brings together five paintings where flickers of color paint against dark, velvety background (she uses […]
ARTFORUM Critics’ Picks: “Aki Sasamoto”
My review of Aki Sasamoto’s performance/installation “Strange Attractors” at Take Ninagawa gallery has been posted on Artforum.com page.
Shirokane Art Complex Openings
The first exhibitions of the new year in the Shirokane art complex were a bit underwhelming. Kodama gallery held a group show “ignore your perspective 11” featuring the works of Sunao Horikawa, Masahiro Sekiguchi, Keisuke Sugimoto, Hidekazu Tanaka, Mayuko Wada and Shuhei Yagi. Some of the artists represented were moved up in the ranks from the […]
Tokyo Metro Manners Posters
The new Tokyo Metro manners poster is out. This one is about helping an old lady to get her parcel off the luggage shelf. It might now be as entertaining as a 2009 poster of a hammered salaryman surrounded by beer cans, or a 2010 one with an obliging dude sporting an afro, a hawaiian shirt […]
Emilia and Ilya Kabakov: Artists’ Talk
Just watched a 2005 interview with the Kabakovs available as a podcast on the Tate webpage.
