OSAKA
Masquerade – Sawada Tomoko Exhibition
Kirin Plaza Osaka (4-5F)
Thru Sep 3
Nearest stn: Subway/JR Namba stn
Open: 11am–9pm
Admission: ¥500/¥300
Tel: 06-6212-6578
Photographer – Kumano Makiko Exhibition
Belgium Flanders Exchange Center
Thru Sep 15
Getting there: International House Osaka 3F, Subway Tanimachi 9-chome/Kintetsu Uehonmachi stn
Open: 11am-12:30pm, 1:30pm–5pm
Closed Sat/Sun/Hol
Admission: Free
Tel: 06-6773-8850
Three Individuals Exhibition featuring Japanese contemporary artists, Imamura Hajime, Ito Zon and Suda Yoshihiro
The National Museum of Art Osaka
Thru Sep 18
Getting there: Subway Yotsubashi line, Higobashi stn, exit 3
Open: 10am–4pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥830/¥450/¥250
Tel: 06-6447-4680
Snoopy Life Design: Happiness is the 55th Anniversary
Suntory Museum Tenpozan
Thru Sep 24
Getting there: Subway chuo, Technoport line, Osaka-ko stn, exit 1
Open: 10:30am–7pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,000/¥700/¥500
Tel: 06-6577-0001
Spain's Prado Museum Exhibition
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
Thru Oct 15
Nearest stn: JR/subway Tennoji stn
Open: 9:30am–4:30pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,500/¥1,100
Tel: 06-6771-4874
“Meipin” Bridging Koryou and Japan
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka
Thru Jan 28, 2007
Nearest stn: Subway Midosuji line, Yodoyabashi stn
Open: 9:30am–4:30pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥500/¥300, free
Tel: 06-6223-0055
KYOTO
Annual museum collection exhibition selected by visitors. Over 50 works
Hosomi Bijutsukan
Thru Sep 10
Nearest stn: Okazaki Saishoji-cho
Open: 10am–5:30pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥700/¥500
Tel: 075-752-5555
Tomimoto Kenichi Exhibiton: 120th Anniversary of his birth
The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto
Thru Sep 10
The exhibition commemorates the 120th anniversary of the birth of Tomimoto Kenkichi, a ceramicist.
Getting there: From JR/Kintetsu Kyoto stn, take 5 bus, get off at Kyoto-Kaikan-Bijyutsukan-mae
Open: 9:30am-4:30pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥830/¥450/¥250
Tel: 075-761-4111
Qi Baishi and His Contemporaries
Kyoto National Museum
Thru Oct 1
Featuring paintings by the modern Chinese master Qi Baishi (1863 - 1957) and his contemporaries, such as Priest Ruiguang and Yao Hua,
primarily from the Suma Collection, which was donated to the museum in recent years.
Nearest stn: Keihan Shichijo stn
Open: 9:30am–5pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,300/¥900/¥400
Tel: 075-541-1151
Maria Theresia an Schonbrunn Palace exhibition
Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan
Thru Oct 9
Costumes, accessories, paintings, furniture, etc.
Nearest stn: Subway Karasuma-Oike/Hankyu Karasuma stn
Open: 10am–4:30pm. Closed Mon/Tue
Admission: ¥1,200/¥800/¥500
Tel: 075-222-0888
Mikuniso Exhibition
Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Bijutsukan
Thru Dec 3
JR Yamazaki/Hankyu Oyamazaki stn
Open: 10am–4pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥700/¥500/free
Tel: 075-957-3123
HYOGO
The Collectors Eye: Pillows
Ashiya Shiritsu Bijutsu Hakubutsukan
Thru Sep 18
The history of pillows in China and Japan through art.
Nearest stn: Hanshin Ashiya stn
Open: 10am–4:30pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥300/¥200/free
Tel: 0797-38-5432
Bologna Fiera Del Libro Per Ragazzi (The 2006 Bologna, Italy International Storybook Exhibition)
Nishinomiya-Shi Otani Kinen Bijutsukan
Thru Sep 24
92 winning works from an International storybook competition held in Italy.
Nearest stn: Hanshin Koroen stn
Open: 10am–4pm. Closed Wed
Admission: ¥800/¥600/¥400
Tel: 0798-33-0164
Alberto Giacometti and Yanaihara Isaku
Hyogo Prefecture Museum
Thru Oct 1
42 sculptures, 28 oil paintings and 66 sketches.
Nearest stn: Hanshin Iwaya stn
Open: 10am–5pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥1,200/¥900/¥500
Tel: 078-262-0901
Ogisu Takanori: Restrospective
Kobe Shiritsu Koiso Kinen Bijutsukan
Thru Oct 9
Ninety western-style paintings of Paris.
Nearest stn: Rokko Liner, Island
Nearest stn: Kitaguchi stn
Open: 10am–5pm. Closed Wed
Admission: ¥500/¥250
Tel: 078-858-0050
Nara
Kaleidoscopic Images
Nara Kenritsu Bijutsukan
Thru Sep 24
Nearest stn: Kintetsu Nara stn
Open: 9am–4pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥400/¥250/¥150
Tel: 0742-23-3968
The Beauty of Japanese Lacquer
Nara National Museum
Thru Oct 1
Masterworks by Kitamura Shosai.
Getting there: Inside Nara Park, Kintetsu Nara stn
Open: 9:30am–5pm. Closed Mon
Admission: ¥420/¥130/free
Tel: 0742-22-7771
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Next year marks fifty years since the death of the modern
Chinese painter Qi Baishi (1863-1957). In recent years, the
works of this master artist, who introduced modern forms
into the traditional Chinese literati painting scene, have annually
been gaining recognition. Several editions of Baishi's
complete works have already been published in China,
attesting to his influence on modern Chinese painting.
Baishi's finished works appear simple and easy to imitate,
however, he created unusual and striking shapes in bold
colors that have never been painted before. An element in
his works interestingly connects to contemporary graphic art. The original sense of design in
Baishi's paintings has gone unsurpassed.
Ushio Shinohara, the only Japanese Neo-Dadaist of the 1960s
to remain committed to an esthetic of “repugnant beauty,” will
hold an exhibition at Kirin Plaza Osaka. Shinohara, who goes by
the nickname of “gyu-chan”, has lived in New York since 1967,
yet cultural translocation influenced his subject matter only a
little. His eyes remain fixed on an America of vitality and freedom,
as seen from afar by a love-struck Japanese teenager of the
immediate postwar period. He has always addressed the clash
of old and new. Early paintings were full of pop imagery and
celebrations of violence; being in New York only slightly increased
the frenzy. Shinohara, at 74, continues to excite younger artists
through his actions if not through his works, which remain fixed
both stylistically and conceptually.
