ARTISTS
2020
Shows to catch in Thailand, Australia, Japan and Vietnam
While painting is preeminent in the 90-odd works shown in “Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO), it is mostly peripheral to the better-known Japanese aesthetic concepts.
2019
From Artemisia to Abramović, Old Masters to Olmecs, and Richter to Roman antiquities—here are next year's must-see shows
Masterpiece from London's National Gallery is headed for Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia
“Vienna on the Path to Modernism” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, is essentially an illustrated history of sociopolitical developments leading to the city flourishing as one of the world’s great cultural centers from the mid-18th century.
What three shows about Japanese art from a pivotal decade tell us about the selective memory of cultural institutions
Exhibition with 60 other loans from the museum will help celebrate the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
2017
The subtitle given to the retrospective of the 60-year career of Osaka-based Michio Fukuoka is oxymoronic: “A Sculptor Who No Longer Sculpts.” He used
This exhibition marks the launch of BVB Collections, an exhibitions programme of internationally touring shows from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection.
Since impressionism had, at its extremities, given rise to the expressionists Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, the postwar painter Jean-Michel Atlan
2016
By the late 1960s, Japan’s early postwar avant-garde had largely petered out. The radicals of yesteryear were now 20 years older and the country had returned to material affluence and international acceptance symbolized by the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
2014
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
Running from 27 September until 7 December 2014, the National Museum of Art Osaka is to present Japan’s first exhibition dedicated to the French
“Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Art” is a ragtag grouping of nine individual artists and one unit, each of whom focus on extremely different things.
The invention of photography was supposed to bring about the death of painting. What actually happened, however, was that photography became