Throughout his career, Keiichi Tahara (1951–2017) showed a remarkable ability to exploit the drama and shaping effects of light and shadow, producing not only the moody black-and-white photographs…
The burst of energy that was Gutai, far from being an isolated Japanese phenomenon following World War II, was akin to Happenings in the U.S. and to Informel, CoBrA and other experimental movements…
This show was a superb dialogue between art and site. The gallery, at the Chohouin Buddhist temple in one of Tokyo's old neighborhoods, is an experience in itself. It is entered through a low door t…
While this was not Noriyuki Haraguchi's first New York show, he's little known here, which is not the case in Japan. He was one of the students involved in the important Mono-ha movement in the late…
Much of the buzz at the opening night of the 15th edition of the SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art) fair on Thursday, April 19, was in praise of the exhibition design by New York architect D…
In creating a new installation for the reopening last fall of the enlarged Weis- man Art Museum (WAM), artist Sharon Louden was commissioned to take inspiration from the WAM building itself, Frank…
The work of London-based Greek sculptor Kalliopi Lemos is the subject of a three-part decade survey organized by Maria Maragou, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and curator of the G…
Yuriko Yamaguchi’s wall relief Energy gives a searing impression. It suggests a red-hot sun seen from afar or an ember seen up close. A slightly flattened red-and-black circle 10 feet across, it is…