Back Issue -1 November 2006-

Mixed Media: The Art of Shinro Ohtake Jeffrey Ian Rosen The work of Shinro Ohtake presents the writer with quite a challenge, particularly as presented in Zen-kei, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) retrospective on view through December 24, 2006. Ohtake, born in Tokyo in 1955 and presently living and working in the city of Uwajima, is widely celebrated as an insider's artist, one whose wider art world appreciation is in direct proportional contrast to the scale and breadth of his seemingly endless art production. more... Toyo Ito: The New "Real" in Architecture Thomas Daniell It has been almost a decade since Toyo Ito began to publicly express concern about his influence on the younger generation of Japanese architects. Ito is deservedly celebrated for his embrace of the effects of electronic and information technology on the contemporary city, his theorization of the concomitant effects on human life as a "virtual body," and of course his poetic built expressions of transparency and weightlessness. Yet in 1998, he published an essay critical of the anemic minimalism of new Japanese architecture that included this admission: more... Mixed Media: The Art of Shinro Ohtake Jeffrey Ian Rosen 1 Nov 2006 Toyo Ito: The New "Real" in Architecture Thomas Daniell 1 Nov 2006 Ukiyoe Paradise on a Harajuku Alley: The Ota Museum Alan Gleason 1 Nov 2006 Isamu Noguchi: Mixed Meanings Matthew Larking 2 Oct 2006 The Next Generation Thomas Daniell 2 Oct 2006 Off Tokyo's Beaten Art Track: Chimenkanoya and Musunso Alan Gleason 2 Oct 2006 >> Back Issues