At the end of last year it was announced that the Agency for Cultural Affairs would be allocated 102 billion yen (AUD$ 1.2 billion) for fiscal 2010 – the highest annual budget it has ever received.
The 25 December announcement was made by Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister, Tatsuo Kawabata, and followed close on [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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Two of Japan’s most respected architects were honored by two of its largest newspaper companies recently. On 31 December, the Mainichi Shimbun announced the five winners of its 51st annual Mainichi Arts Award, giving one to architect Kengo Kuma for his job rebuilding the Nezu Museum in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. A day later the Asahi [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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Japan’s architect wonder-woman, 53-year-old Kazuyo Sejima of the office SANAA, has distinguished herself again, this time being selected to direct the 12th Venice Biennale for architecture, to be held between 29th August and 21st November, next year. Sejima becomes not only the Biennale’s first female director, but its first to hail from an Asian country.
That [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
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It’s been a busy few months for artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. In September he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, the Japanese version of the Nobel Prize, given in the fields that lack a Nobel: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theatre/film. Sugimoto, who works primarily in photography, won his for “painting” – and the moral victory of [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
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Suntory Holdings Ltd., Japan’s third largest brewer and one of the nation’s most generous cultural sponsors, has announced it will close its loss-making Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka at the end of 2010.
The multi-purpose facility, which includes an art museum devoted predominantly to design and modern art and an IMAX theatre, was completed in 1994. [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/09/16/suntory-to-close-ando-designed-museum-in-culture-support-rethink/
The Agency for Cultural Affairs has started debating the merits of a government indemnity system, which, if adopted, would mean the national government would step in to cover any costs arising out of damage or loss to works of art borrowed from overseas institutions while those works of art are in the care of local [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: June 15th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
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It seems the Japanese government is serious about building its first national museum for media arts – anime and manga, in particular. One of the recommendations made last year by an Agency for Cultural Affairs advisory panel tasked with proposing how Japan could enhance its presentation of its culture internationally was for the government to [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: June 15th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
Permalink: http://jasm.australia.or.jp/2009/06/15/national-government-serious-about-building-animemanga-museum/
