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Event In-Depth: Exhibition

Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Friday, October 5, 2007 — Sunday, January 13, 2008

Japan Society presents this large-scale group exhibition featuring the work of 33 contemporary Japanese artists who call New York City home, including Yoko Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Kunie Sugiura, Yuken Teruya, and Aya Uekawa.

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Image Gallery

Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History

Juxtaposing the acclaimed artist Hiroshi Sugimoto's own work with a range of traditional and ritual artifacts from his personal collection, this exhibition investigates perceptions of time and the experience of history.

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Image Gallery

Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century

Recent masterpieces by Japanese ceramics artists, representing what is arguably the most vibrant and important contemporary ceramics culture.

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Article

Go Sugimoto: The Exquisitely Extreme Photography of Go Sugimoto

Go Sugimoto has the exquisite eye of a painter. To realize his vision in photography, he sets the camera an extreme task that it is not routinely asked to perform—shooting at night with scarcely any light or shooting white on white.

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Article

Momoyo Torimitsu: Torimitsu Confronts Global Corporate Culture

Primarily a sculptor and installation artist, Momoyo Torimitsu has consistently addressed timely social issues in superbly executed three-dimensional forms and in video.

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Otaku Talk

Toshio Okada and Kaichiro Morikawa talk with Takashi Murakami about the history and development of Japan's unique Otaku culture, and the role Otaku plays in Japanese society today.

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Article

Satoru Eguchi: Drawing a Home

An in-depth review of the work of Satoru Eguchi, who has created a room-sized installation in which he re-creates his “home” space as an artist: his studio. STUDIO includes a work desk, a plant, bottles of paint, and stationery using common materials such as cardboard and wood.

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Article

Yumi Kori: Yumi Kori Builds with Light

Using the ephemeral and transcendental qualities of light, architect-artist Yumi Kori affects the way we see and feel the world. Her art installations and architecture challenge our conventional sense of space and the relationship of our physical “self” to the space around us.

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