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Yoko Ono wins top Austrian prize
Japanese-American artist Yoko Ono (L) shakes hands with Austrian Minister of Science Karlheinz Toechterle AFP VIENNA — Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, on Thursday won the 2012 more »
Exhibition Yayoi Kusama
The National Museum of Art, Osaka Opening Hours 10:00–17:00, Fridays until 19:00 Admission until 30 minutes before closing Closed Mondays (Except for January 9(Mon.), 2012, January 10(Tue.) instead) Admission Fee more »
Comic anthologies offer visions of hope after 3/11
Artists and writers in Japan and around the world offer graphic accounts of March 11 for fundraising books The cover art for “Aftershock: Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan” by more »
Post-Apocalyptic Images of Japan
The ruins and haikyo aficionado in me couldn’t resist making a post about Tokyo Genso‘s fabulous art depicting post-apocalyptic Japan. The illustrations have a breathtaking otherworldly quality that perfectly capture more »
“311: Lost Homes” Exhibition
11.02.2011 to 12.24.2011 TOTO GALLERY・MA Every type of design-related activity is focused on the future. But since the terrible scenes of March 11, we have lost sight of what it more »
Collections III: Yasui Nakaji and His Age
HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART Nov.19 2011 to March.11 2012 “Dog” (1935, reprinted 2010) by Nakaji Yasui HYOGO PREFECT URALMUSEUM OF ART Nakaji Yasui (December 15, 1903 – March 15, more »
Issues that covered up Japan’s nudes
By C.B. LIDDELL Special to The Japan Times In his popular anecdotal encyclopedia of Japan, “Things Japanese,” the 19th-century British Japanologist, Basil Hall Chamberlain, included the comment that “the nude more »
