The cosmetics brand Shiseido has long been an advocate of artists with rising stars. The current show at its Ginza gallery, Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi, Tokuko Ushioda, Mari Katayama, Maiko Haruki, Mayumi Hosokura, and Your Perspectives, features up-and-coming photographers. Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi work as a pair reconstructing the language and imagery of advertising; Tokuko Ushioda photographs books and their environments; Mari Katayama, co-winner of the most recent Kimura Ihei Award, takes self-portraits with her prostheses and hand-sewn objects; Maiko Haruki questions what it means to "see" in obscurely framed, over- and under-exposed shots; Mayumi Hosokura explores notions of boundaries and the body. What the works all share is a sharpness of ideas and techniques. more...

Few artists in Japan -- at least not until recent decades -- have so thoroughly blurred the distinction between Japanese-style and Western-style art as Hiroshi Yoshida, who worked from the Meiji through to the Showa era. At the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, a new exhibition of Yoshida's works, mainly woodblock prints and watercolors, explores his legacy and his unique approach to his art. Yoshida Hiroshi: Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of His Death puts together close to 200 items spanning his entire career. more...