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Mori Museum Events Postponed

Dear Julia Friedman, Exhibition Openings of “French Window” and “MAM Project 014” and Exhibition-Related Programs/events to Be Postponed Until Further Notice Mori Art Museum would like to express our deepest condolences to those affected by the Tohoku and Pacific Ocean Earthquake on last Friday, March 11.Out of the concerns for the power consumption caused by the […]

Mori Museum URGENT TALK 006: WE INVITE A MUSEUM, NOT THE MUSEUM INVITES US

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Happy New Year! Top Tokyo Exhibitions of 2010

To celebrate the glorious end of Tokyo’s 2010 exhibition year I put together the list of three of my favorite shows of the year. For the sake of even distribution I picked one show by an emerging gallery, one show by an established gallery and one museum show. Venue: TANA Bookshelf Gallery Exhibition: SHIBUHAUSE installation […]

Mori Art Museum: Motohiko Odani, “Phantom Limb”

“Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: Mori Art Museum 2010/11/27-2011/2/27 Dying Slave: Stella 2009–10 c.500×180×220 cm Steel, paraffin, wax Collection of the artist Photo: Kioku Keizo Photo Courtesy: Mori Art Museum “Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: Mori Art Museum 2010/11/27-2011/2/27 Photo: Kioku Keizo Photo Courtesy: Mori Art Museum “Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: […]

Roppongi Crossing 2010

This year’s Roppongi Crossing exhibition poses a mega-rhetorical question: “Can There Be Art?” We know the answer, of course, but for the sake of doing a convincing lineup of the new talent, the Mori Art Museum built the show around the theme of street-generated art using the works works of young Japanese artists. Similarly to […]

"Medicine and Art: Imaging a Future for Life and Love"

View of the video installation by Magnus Wallin (Excercise Parade, 2001, double backprojection, 3-D animated video). Image courtesy Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin Despite its generic sounding title the Mori Art Museum’s current show insightfully combines the old (Leonardo da Vinci) and the new (Damien Hirst), medical equipment and art, Nihonga painting and contemporary installations. The common […]

Ai WeiWei at the Mori

Curated by Mami Kataoka. If you have not seen this show yet, it will be on through November 8. I post my review below. Ai Weiwei: According to What? expertly showcases Ai’s flipping’em-all-meets-exemplary-social-consciousness attitude; it propels viewers out of the sterility of museum experience by the evocation of dead schoolchildren and on-camera destruction of an […]