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Pop Music and Japanese Contemporary Art – A peek at Japanese contemporary art as seen through old and new music albums

Many people find art too difficult to understand, and when it comes to Japanese contemporary art, their cultural background is completely different, and many of them tend to shy away from it. Surprisingly, however, Japanese contemporary art has been a part of Western popular and youth culture for quite some time.

Today, I would like to focus on the connection between the music scene, especially in the US, and Japanese contemporary art.

I’m not a big fan of pop music, but I […]

By Keiko Tanaka|2021-01-30T00:35:32+01:00 29. January 2021|Categories: Art, Design/Applied Arts, Generic|Tags: Beatles, Billie Eilish, Earth Wind & Fire, Kanye West, Keita Sagaki, Keita Sagaki, Miles Davis, Plattencover, Shusei Nagaoka, Tadanori Yokoo, Takashi Murakami, The Carpenters, Yoshitomo Nara|0 Comments

Windows in Art

As you know, there are quite a few works in the world that have windows in their paintings. The most famous ones are probably Vermeer’s paintings.
In fact, half of his works have windows in them.

However, it is impossible to get a glimpse of the outside world through those windows. In other words, the window must have been an important element in letting in light.
Windows also often appear in Henri Matisse’s work.
Like a […]

By Michele Vitucci|2025-08-22T16:26:34+01:00 26. January 2021|Categories: Art, Generic, Keiko’s memories, Photography|Tags: analog art, b/w photography, black and white photography, fine art photography, Hiroshi Watanabe, windows|0 Comments

Satomi Shirais Works gives a lot of room for interpretations

Three weeks into Satomi Shirai’s first solo exhibition in Europe “Home from Home”, it seems visitors don’t always agree with Shirai’s artist statement.

Satomi Shirai views her work as an attempt to create photographic images that translate the assimilation processes of outsiders in a new environment, and the physical and psychological changes they experience. Originally the artist intended to document her own life as a Japanese person living in New York, but soon achieved the transformation of her […]

By Micheko|2021-01-28T16:41:58+01:00 22. September 2017|Categories: Generic|0 Comments