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Current events
"All about Batik: Art of Tradition and Harmony" Exhibition
[2] 
[0]- at Chiba City Museum of Art
- Media: Fashion
- Closes in 2 days
Batik is a resist printing technique using wax, performed repeatedly to create exquisite and intricate designs, and has become familiar under the name of "Indonesian Sarasa" in Japan. Indonesia has long (...)
"Asobijutsukuru" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Yokosuka Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Other
- Closes in 2 days
There are many ways of enjoying museum visits - finding oneself moved by a photo-perfect landscape, laughing at the simplified figures of a portrait painting, wondering if you could pull off one of those (...)
"Gallery Trax Selection '08" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Gallery Trax
- Media: Painting - Art Party
- Closes in 2 days
Opening Party: June 21st (Sat) 17:00-19:00
"Mt. Fuji - Japanese Symbol in the Modern Times" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Crafts - Other - Art Talk
- Closes in 2 days
Mt. Fuji is a familiar icon, often seen as a subject of worship, which appears in various stories and as a motif in art. How was this collective image of Mt. Fuji developed over time? Since the old times, (...)
Hiroshi Okutani Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Art Talk
- Closes in 2 days
This is a retrospective exhibition of representative Yo-ga painter Hiroshi Okutani. Okutani was born in Shukumo City in Kochi prefecture in 1934. He studied oil painting at Tokyo National University of (...)
Nikiten Ibaraki Division Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 2 days
"From the Museum Collection: Sakura, Boso Artists" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Sakura City Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Crafts
- Closes in 8 days
The Sakura City Museum of Art has been doing research on artists based in the Sakura and Boso areas. Last year, the museum received a new donation of 18 paintings by Tadanori Shibamiya (1938-2007) . Shibamiya's (...)
"Shirtsgenic" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Art Works Gallery
- Media: Fashion
- Closes in 8 days
T-shirts produced in collaboration with contemporary artists. A temporary T-shirt shop, Shirtsgenic, will be set up for a limited period in the gallery. This is the 4th edition of the exhibition, with (...)
7th Metal Sculpture Artist Exhibition "Crystallization"
[0] [0]- at Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani
- Media: Sculpture
- Closes in 8 days
Each of the artists in this exhibition is currently engaged in researching the possibilities of sculpture and three-dimensional form, each in their different ways. This exhibition entitled "Crystallization" (...)
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2008
[3] [1]- at Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza
- Media: Film - Art Talk
- Starts Today, Closes in 8 days
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2008 is a unique film festival which focuses on the screenings of digitally shot and produced films. In its competition category, selected 12 full-length films (...)
Fumitaka Tomita Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
- Media: Furniture - Art Talk
- Closes in 12 days
Born in 1953 in Isezaki City (previously known as Sakai Town), Gunma Prefecture, pioneering wood furniture designer Fumitaka Tomita studied abroad at Carl Malmsten Centre for Wood Technology and Design, (...)
"Ceramic Work of Chiba" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Ceramics
- Closes in 22 days
Location: Exhibition Room 8
"Drawing" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Drawing
- Closes in 22 days
Location: Exhibition Room 3
"Criterium 73 Tetsuya Umeda" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- Starts Today, Closes in 36 days
"Criterium" (criterion in Latin), is a series of exhibition introducing new works by emerging artists working in Japan. This exhibition presents an installation work by Tetsuya Umeda, who creates works (...)
"Play in the Forest - the World of BorneLund" Event
[0] [0]- at Hakone Open Air Museum
- Media: Product - Other
- Closes in 38 days
BorneLund is a marketer of build-and-play toys for children. This summer, Hakone Open Air Museum and BorneLund collaborate to create an environment where children can experience "art" and "play" at the (...)
"Dance with Colors! Chromatic World on the Move" Exhibition
[32] [2]- at Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza
- Media: Installation - Product - Video installation - Art Talk
- Closes in 43 days
The world of colors is entering a new era. Thanks to the development of computers, LED and display technologies, we can now freely choose colors from an infinite selection with a single switch. Colors (...)
"Masterworks from the Permanent Collection of Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in a Renovated Building" Exhibition
[4] [2]- at Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 43 days
In 1990, the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art opened in a dense, green forest. The museum reopened in March 2008 after completing a two-year renovation and construction process that was initiated at the (...)
"Strength of the Earth" Exhibition
[5] [0]- at Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Ceramics - Art Talk
- Closes in 43 days
This exhibition is part of a special "Dialogue with Materials" series at the Tatebayashi Museum in Gunma Prefecture. Taking paper as its theme in 2002 and wood in 2004, the exhibition series introduced (...)
Ganjinwajo National Treasures Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture
- Closes in 43 days
Over 1200 years ago, Toshodaiji temple was built by Ganjinwajo, a high priest from Tang dynasty China who made his way to Japan after surviving a 12 year overseas journey. Among the crucial temple structures (...)
Permanent Exhibition "Summer"
[0] [0]- at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Prints
- Closes in 43 days
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art changes their permanent collection display four times a year. The current exhibition in the South Building presents paintings, prints and glass works by Hideo Hagiwara, (...)
Suma Maruki Exhibition
[5] [0]- at Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 43 days
Suma Maruki (1875-1956) began painting after she turned 70, and for the 11 years until she passed away at the age of 81, she created more than 700 works. She was encouraged to start painting by her sun (...)
"Chagall - My Stories" Exhibition
[3] [3]- at Pola Museum of Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 50 days
Throughout his career, Marc Chagall not only depicted fantastical imagery in rich colors, but also gave expression to his childhood memories with a sense of rustic poetry. Chagall never ceased to project (...)
Permanent Exhibition II "Summer"
[0] [0]- at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Prints - Crafts
- Closes in 50 days
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art changes their permanent collection display four times a year. The current exhibition in the South Building presents paintings, prints and glass works by Hideo Hagiwara, (...)
Tadao Ando "Machiga Umareru - Sengawa"
[95] [10]- at Tokyo Art Museum
- Media: Architecture
- Closes in 73 days
This exhibition introduces the past, present, and future of city development in Sengawa (Chofu City, Tokyo), along with the ongoing design of road layout. The project consists of 6 facilities that designed (...)
Takao Ono "Memory of Depicted Shadows"
[0] [0]- at Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 73 days
Moving to Italy at the age of 20, Takao Ono studied painting conservation and worked on many masterpieces such as works by Giotto and Tiziano from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. During his stay in (...)
"Tadashi Asai, Antonio Fontanesi and the Barbizon School" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting
- Closes in 78 days
Works by Chiba prefecture's pioneering modern Western-style painter, as well as by his masters Fontanesi and the Barbizon school painters, will be on display. Location: Exhibition Room 2
Julian Opie Exhibition
[10] [0]- at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation - Art Talk
- Starts Today, Closes in 78 days
The Contemporary Art Center at Art Tower Mito (ATM) is delighted to announce the first large-scale solo exhibition in Asia by the British contemporary artist Julian Opie. Known especially in Japan for (...)
"Permanent Collection Part 2" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- Closes in 92 days
"Western Art - Impressionism to Delvaux" Works by Impressionist painters such as Monet and Pissaro, as well as Picasso and Delvaux. "Bewildering Landscapes" From works consisting of mirroring images (...)
Permanent Collection Part II
[0] [0]- at Utsunomiya Museum of Art
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Drawing - Other
- Closes in 162 days
Works from the museum's collection will be on display, with 5 different themes. 1. "From East of Europe": Focusing on 2 representative Russian painters from the 20th century, Wassily Kandinsky and Marc (...)
Permanent events
Hakone Open-Air Museum Permanent Exhibits
[8] [10]- at Hakone Open Air Museum
- Media: Sculpture - Installation
The Hakone Open-Air Museum was opened in 1969 to create a harmonic balance of the great nature of Hakone and Art. The unique experiences of open-air museum await you, as different seasons and weather (...)
Ibaraki Museum of Modern Art Permanent Exhibition
[1] [1]- at Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
- Media: Painting
With works from the Ibaraki area as the nucleus, objects in the museum's permanent collection are shown systematically so that the history of modern and contemporary art can be easily understood.
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art Permanent Exhibition
[3] [2]- at Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art
- Media: Painting - Sculpture
The museum collection consists of 1210 pieces centering upon 20th century works depicting the . 540 are works by Renoir, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Chagall, Kokoschka, Milo, Dali, and de Kooning, (...)
Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani Permanent Exhibition
[4] [2]- at Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani
- Media: Installation - Crafts - Sculpture
Our permanent exhibition, held on the first floor, features the work of metal-cast artists Hotsuma Katori and Shinobu Tsuda. Both being born in the same period, in the Hokuso area of Chiba Prefecture, (...)
Motohiro Tomii "Special Exhibition = Permanent Collection Exhibition"
[1] [0]- at ARCUS Studio
- Media: Installation - Art Party
Artist Motohiro Tomii will create sculptural works using ready-made objects. The sculptures will then become permanent collections of ARCUS Project and exhibited inside Building B. Moriya Manabi-no-sato, (...)
Niki de Saint Phalle Permanent Exhibits
[6] [5]- at Niki Museum
- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture
Niki de Saint Phalle, a French-American, was born in 1930. She kept challenging new materials, while pursuing a life-long theme of self-reflection and wish for freedom. The Niki Museum owns about 200 (...)
Picasso Pavilion
[13] [9]- at Hakone Open Air Museum
- Media: Painting - Ceramics - Crafts
The Hakone Open-Air Museum’s Picasso Collection consists of a substantial number of Picasso’s ceramic creations, purchased from his eldest daughter Maya Picasso, as well as his paintings, prints, sculptures, (...)
Rodin Wing
[7] [3]- at Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Sculpture
Walking through the Rodin Wing is like a stroll through a garden of sculptures. Natural light through a rugby-ball shaped roof provides the illumination. The whole wing is visible from the entrance floor. 32 (...)
Tenshin Okakura Memorial Room Exhibition
[0] [1]- at Tenshin Memorial Museum Of Art, Ibaraki
- Media: Painting
Works by artists from Izura who were tutored by Tenshin Okakura will be on display. Exhibits will rotate six times a year.
Utsunomiya Museum of Art Collection
[2] [1]- at Utsunomiya Museum of Art
- Media: Illustration - Painting - Sculpture
Utsunomiya Museum of Art collects post-20th century works of art and design. The permanent exhibition is rotated 3 to 4 times a year, and a thematic mini-exhibition is also held 1 to 2 times a year.
Upcoming events
"The 5th Anniversary Special Event Creator's Meeting: The First Step for Young Creators"
[0] [0]- at Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza
- Media: Film - Art Talk
- Starts in 4 days
Celebrating the theatrical screenings of their feature films this year, two up-and-coming directors Masaya Kakei and Izuru Kumasaka, whose short films were nominated at Skip City International D-Cinema (...)
"Skip City × United Cinema Cinema Plot Competition 2008 Forum -Sai-no-Kuni 100,000 Moviegoers Film Project"
[0] [0]- at Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza
- Media: Art Talk
- Starts in 5 days
Skip City Sai-no-Kuni Visual Plaza has 18 rental office spaces with the goal of producing top creators, providing various types of support with new creators to start their business. United Cinema is a (...)
"D-Contents Market" Presentation
[0] [0]- at Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza
- Media: Art Talk
- Starts in 6 days
At this event entitled "D-Contents Market", 8 up-and-coming film directors will aim to achieve a match between filmmakers and industry professionals as well as to realize feature film production, as giving (...)
"The World of Takashi Yanase" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
- Media: Painting - Other - Art Talk
- Starts in 7 days
Hero of love and justice "Anpanman". The creator of this now internationally famous hero is Takashi Yanase. Yanase is also well known as manga artist, poet and editor, having produced a wide range of (...)
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