Back Issue -15 January 2007-

New Media: Yuka Sasahara Gallery Jeffrey Ian Rosen Set to celebrate its first anniversary in January 2007, Yuka Sasahara Gallery is one of the youngest in a recently expanding group of "second generation" Tokyo-based contemporary gallery spaces. At 34, owner Yuka Sasahara is herself rather young; however, Sasahara is a seasoned veteran of the Tokyo art world. Intimately involved for nearly ten years, Sasahara previously worked with both the venerable Taka Ishii Gallery and an early and subsequent Roppongi incarnation of Roentgenwerke, a space in which she worked alongside Zenshi Mikami, himself now an independent (Mikami presently runs his own space, Zenshi), and in which she had an opportunity to refine her curatorial practice. more... On Togo Murano Thomas Daniell An eclectic designer to say the least, architect Togo Murano (1891-1984) may have remained relatively unknown outside Japan, yet locally he is a revered figure. A multivolume, hardbound collection of his complete drawings is available (at a high price), a major annual architecture prize is named after him, and the Kyoto Institute of Technology has a climate-controlled archive dedicated to every surviving drawing from his office -- a collection estimated to comprise 60,000 items, which, two decades after his death, is still in the process of being cataloged. more... New Media: Yuka Sasahara Gallery Jeffrey Ian Rosen 15 Jan 2007 On Togo Murano Thomas Daniell 15 Jan 2007 From Combs to Cubists: The Pola Museum in Hakone Alan Gleason 15 Jan 2007 More than Zero Matthew Larking 1 Dec 2006 Parallel NIPPON Thomas Daniell 1 Dec 2006 Haiku in the Highlands: The Issa Memorial Hall Alan Gleason 1 Dec 2006 >> Back Issues