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from “Rakunin”, 2010 Japanese ink and hair on pig skin © Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi Tabaimo isn’t interested in depicting the things you can normally see. She’s said as much…

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Handing it to Tabaimo

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You aren’t supposed to see a gallery. Or at least that’s the idea passed down from modernist tradition — the gallery should be less than a space, it should be an absence.…

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The Art of Being Art-less

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by Owen Schaefer When the Mori Art Museum proposed to do a three-artist show that would examine the contemporary Japanese perception of nature, I hoped it would be more than a feel-good…

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The Elusive Nature of Nature

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Probably the most irritating of clichés for me is the way in which just about any discussion of contemporary Japanese art gets hijacked by people wanting to bring up Takashi Murakami or…

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Manga in the Masters, the art of Akira Ishiguro

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by Owen Schaefer One thing I enjoy in an exhibition is a solidly explored concept; a show that works like an essay, laying out its thesis, arguments and conclusion. Occasionally, however, one…

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Selling the Self Short

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Where does fashion fit into the art spectrum? I suppose that the answer can at least be partially gleaned from the fact that people such as Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake and Patrick…

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Art, after a fashion.

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Darkness for Light took me by surprise, and I’m not afraid to admit it. So much so, that even though I’d intended to write about it right after visiting last week, I…

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Czech photography out of the Darkness

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by Owen Schaefer If you’ve ever been to a Japanese festival, you’ve likely heard it: the “clap-clap-clap clap-clap-clap clap-clap-clap…clap” rhythm used to celebrate, open or close events. It is called the ippon…

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3331 Arts Chiyoda Gives you Something to Clap About

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When I checked Gallery Koyanagi’s website to see what was on, it told me that the exhibition was for Yoshihiro Suda, but there were no images. In fact, there is already an image for the upcoming Tabaimo show (something I’m hugely looking forward to), but for Suda? Nothing. It was unusual.

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Yoshihiro Suda’s Invasive Species

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I find an enormous frustration in the fact that galleries and museums in Tokyo all seem to be closed on Mondays. Of course, I’m being unreasonable. There is no reason to expect…

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(Tell you why) I don’t like Mondays

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by Owen Schaefer Free association with the word Vienna would likely conjure up icons of its cultural and musical past, and Mozart is likely to come up before Sigmund Freud. So perhaps…

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Vienna on the Couch: Analyzing Austrian Art

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When Guardian writer Jonathan Jones decided to “confess” to his critical dislike of Anish Kapoor something didn’t sit right with me. I don’t dislike Jones. If I did, I wouldn’t bother to…

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Who’s side are you on, anyway?

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