Two new, large-scale art events are about to kick off – from what is supposed to be the middle of a major economic slump: the Setouchi International Art Festival, which starts on July 19, and the Aichi Triennale 2010, which commences off on August 21. The Setouchi International Art Festival represents an amalgam of the [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: July 17th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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Two years ago the diamond dealers Tiffany started putting something back into the country that has long been one of their biggest markets. In 2008, the Tiffany Foundation initiated the Tiffany Foundation Award for the Preservation of Japanese Traditional Arts and Culture in Contemporary Society. The award, which is administered by the Japan Center for [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: July 17th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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Tokyo’s central business district of Marunouchi gained a new landmark last month, with the opening of the new Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum. And not two weeks had passed before it was revealed that another new museum would open in the rapidly transforming area, in 2012. The Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum is owned and operated by property developers [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: May 17th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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A new award for young Asian artists kicked off last month, as the Asia Art Award was launched in Seoul. Suh Jinsuk, the director of both the award and its organizing body, independent Seoul art venue Alternative Space LOOP, says the aim of the award is to “make a powerful platform from which up-and-coming artists [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: May 17th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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It seems the French can’t get enough of Takeshi Kitano at the moment. The man best known in Japan as a television comedian and abroad as the auteur director of such films as “Violent Cop” (1989) and “Hanabi” (1997) is currently extending his oeuvre even further with an art exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: March 12th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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A three year-old plan to build a museum of manga in the western city of Kitakyushu has been revived, with the local government announcing recently their wish to build the facility by spring 2012. The initial plan, which was completed in December 2007, justified the construction of the facility by saying that the city has [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: March 12th, 2010 | Author: Edan Corkill
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Category: Articles | Posted: September 16th, 2009 | Author: Edan Corkill
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