| Osaka
Thru May 8
Kirin Plaza Osaka
“Wada Makoto's Cinema Land”. Illustrations and
posters from movies by illustrator and film director Makoto
Wada.
Subway Shinsaibashi stn.
Open: 11am-9pm. Admission: Free.
Tel: 06-6212-6578
Thru May 9
Osaka Rekishi Hakubutsukan
Hanshin Tigers Exhibition: over 230 items displayed
Subway Tanimachi and Chuo line, Tanimachi 4-chome stn; Exit
9
Open: 9:30am-4:30pm closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,000/¥670, free
Tel: 06-6946-5728
Thru May 22
Osaka Shiritsu Museum
“A Walk Through the Peony Garden — ImageS of woman
in the Tang Dynasty”
JR/subway Tennoji stn.
Open: 9:30am-4:30pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥1,200/¥1,000
Tel: 06-6771-4874
Thru May 27
Belgium Flanders Exchange Center
Tokyo Alone
by Frederik Froument
International House Osaka 3F
Subay Tanimachi 9-chome/Kintetsu line Uehonmachi stn.
Open: 11am-12:30pm; 1:30-5pm Closed Sat/Sun/Holidays
Admission: Free
Tel: 06-6773-8850
Thru May 29
Museum of Oriental Ceramics
Royal Copenhagen Exhibition
Midosuji line, Yodoyabashi Station
Open: 9:30am-4:30pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥900/¥600, free
Tel: 06-6223-0055
Thru May 31
The National Museum of Ethnology
“New Collections from Polynesia: Lapita Culture
to the Chiefdom”.
Thru Sep 27
Street Art in Africa
Inside Expo (Banpaku) Park
Osaka Monorail Banpaku Kinen Koen Stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed Wed.
Admission: ¥420/¥250/¥110
Tel: 06-6876-2151
Thru Jun 5
Fujita Museum
Spring exhibition
Featuring ink paintings and rakuyaki (light weight ceramic
tea bowls). From the museum collection.
Subway Kyobashi or JR/Keihan Kitazume stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥800/¥500/¥300
Tel: 06-6351-0582
Thru July 3
Osaka Nihon Mingeikan
Kinjo Jiro Exhibition
Works by the Ryukyu potter.
Inside Expo '70 Park, Osaka Monorail Banpaku Kinen Koen Stn.
Open: 10am-4:30pm. Closed Wed.
Admission: ¥700/¥450/¥100
Tel: 06-6877-1971
Thru July 3
Suntory Museum, Tempozan
Raymond Savignac
Subway chuo, Technoport line, Osaka-ko stn, exit 1.
Open: 10:30am-7pm, closed Mon.
Admission: ¥900/¥630/¥450
Tel: 06-6577-0001
Thru July 18
Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan (National Museum of Art Osaska)
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Reliefs
Yotsubashi line Higobashi stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥420/¥130/¥70
Tel: 06-6447-4680
Kyoto
Thru May 15
Kyoto National Museum
Soga Shohaju
Keihan Shichijo Stn.
Open: 9:30am-5pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥1,000/¥600/¥300
Tel: 075-541-1151
Thru May 22
Hosomi Museum
Japanese lacquer crafts exhibition, including a picnic set
from the Edo Period called sageju.
Tozai Subway line, Higashiyama stn. On the corner of Nijo-dori
and river.
Open: 10am-5:30pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥1,000/¥800
Tel: 075-752-5555
Thru May 22
Kyoto Kokuritsu Kindai Museum
Murakami Kagaku Exhibition:
120 works of his life-time.
Keihan Shichijo stn. Okazaki Park
Open: 9:30am-4pm closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,200/¥900/¥600
Tel: 075-761-4111
May 24-Jun 18
Ishida Taiseish's ICB Gallery Cafe
Views of Mount Hiei: Exhibition by American photographer Kate
Connell on her views of Mt. Hiei.
Subway Karasuuma line, Marutamachi stn. Exit 2.
Inside Kyoto Creators Bldg. 3F
Open: 11am-8:30pm, closed Sun/Holidays. Admission: free
Tel: 075-211-9151
Hyogo
Thru May 8
Himeji City Museum of Art
Katsushika Hokusai Exhibition: Over 200 works from this world
famous ukiyo-e artist.
JR/Sanyo Himeji stn; behind Castle.
Open: 10am-4:30pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥800/¥500/¥200
Tel: 0792-22-2288
Thru May 9
Sake Museum
Sakura-ga (cherry blossom) exhibition in Mikuma-ha style
Hanshin Nishinomiya stn.
Open: 10am-4:30pm. Closed Tue.
Admission: ¥500/¥250
Tel: 0798-33-0008
Thru May 15
Hyogo Prefectural Museum History
Virtual museum exhibition
of the history, culture and festivals of Hyogo
JR/Sanyo Himeji stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥200/¥150/¥100
Tel: 0792-88-9011
Thru May 22
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Recovery from the Earth-quake Disaster, 10th Anniversa-ry
Dresden — a Mirror of the World
Hanshin Iwaya stn. (by the ocean)
Open: 10am-5pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥1,400/¥900/¥500
Tel: 078-262-0901
Thru May 22
Itami Shiritsu Bijutsukan
Nicho-sai and Edo Period Caricatures in Osaka
JR/Hankyu Itami stn.
Open: 10am-4pm closed Mon.
Admission: ¥700/¥350/¥100
Tel: 0727-72-7447
Thru Jun 5
Ashiya Shiritsu Bijutsu Hakubutsukan
Modernism Artists
Hanshin Ashiya stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed: Mon.
Admission: ¥300/¥300/free
Tel: 0797-38-5432
Nara
Thru May 8
Nara National Museum
The Dawning Age
A Japanese Archaeology Exhibition
Kintetsu Nara stn; inside Nara Park
Open: 9am-4pm
Admission: ¥1,000/¥700/¥400
Tel: 0742-22-7771
Thru May 29
Nakano Museum
Over 40 works by modern Japanese artists
Kintetsu Gakuen-mae stn.
Open: 10am-4pm. Closed Mon.
Admission: ¥600/¥500/¥250
Tel: 0742-48-1167
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Armand
Mevis and Linda Van Deursen of MEVIS + VAN DEURSEN have played a
critical role in modernizing Dutch graphic design and redefining
it as a dynamic medium. Having met as art students at the Gerrit
Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Armand Mevis and Linda Van Deursen
set up a graphic design studio after graduating. They have since
combined cultural commissi-ons from the Stedelijk Museum of Modern
Art and Muziektheater, both in Amsterdam, with public sector projects
such as stamps for the Dutch Post Office. Diversity is a central
theme in their work. When devising an identity for Rotterdam as
European Capital of Culture in 2001, they rejected the conventional
solution of choosing a particular symbol in favor of celebrating
the eclecticism of the city in multiple combinations of circles,
squares and other symbols. 
The
human specimen has always belonged to the world of medical science,
more specifically to anatomy, which sounds difficult and technical.
However in this project, human specimens are exhibited for the public
and we can learn more about humans, life, body and health through
the interesting displays. The brand-new technology called “plastomic”
allowes us to produce a revolutionary human specimen that can be
preserved semi-permanently even at ordinary temperature. They are
odorless, flexible and touchable. Feel free 
People's
lives have gone through changes through the ages, from distant times
of hunting and gathering to provide daily necessities, to the age
of prospering agricultural efforts, to the beginning of trade and
the creation of a glittering civilization. Throughout the ages,
people have manifested their feelings of awe and reverence for the
incomprehensible workings of fate and nature in a variety of physical
forms. This exhibition features a selection of works drawn from
the Miho's holdings in ancient Egyptian, West Asian, Central Asian,
Chinese, Japanese and Ancient American arts, as it examines how
people have “shaped the sacred” through-out various
regions and times. Many works included in the exhibition are on
public display for the first time. All of the works will contribute
to this experiment in grasping humanity's thoughts on forms of existence
beyond their own.
