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HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 26, 2019
The complicated perception of heroism
As the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art¡¯s final Heisei Era (1989-2019) exhibition, this ambitious and somewhat provocative show looks back on the socio-political roles art played in the midst of the past 90 or so years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017
Take a journey into the art of darkness
Terror and tragedy are widely considered entirely disagreeable in principle. But audiences have for millennia taken pleasure in the pain of narrative spectacles in the arts. Fear is popular because it arouses curiosity in addition to revulsion. So, too, does the assemblage of Western works from the 16th...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 7, 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½ conflicted art of World War II
The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art¡¯s current exhibition, ¡°1945¡À5: The Works that Survived through the Turbulent and Reconstruction Era,¡± showcases modern Japanese art five years either side of the pivotal end of World War II. It addresses oil painting and mostly follows a conventional tale of Japan...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 8, 2016
¡®Tomioka Tessai Retrospective¡¯
March 12-May 8
CULTURE / Art
Dec 1, 2015
¡®Giorgio Morandi: Infinite Variations¡¯
Dec. 8-Feb. 14
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 30, 2015
¡®Funakoshi Katsura: A Sphinx in Myself¡¯
June 27-Aug. 30
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2014
A revue of Â鶹´«Ã½ femininity
Ichizo Kobayashi (1873-1957) was the founder of the West Japan Hankyu train line and department store in Osaka¡¯s central Umeda district. Arguably his most significant artistic contribution was the establishment of the Takarazuka Music School in 1913, which combined a modern education with the training...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 5, 2014
Centre Pompidou picks the fruits of its curatorial success
Fruits of Passion¡¯ displays contemporary works that were acquired during the last decade by the Musu00e9e National d¡¯Art Moderne (MNAM), Centre Pompidou. The exhibition begins, though, with the final threads of modernism.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2014
¡®Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Mus¨¦e National d¡¯Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris¡¯
Fruits of Passion¡¯ showcases some of the acquisitions of contemporary art by the Centre Pomipidou in Paris.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2013
Kansetsu Hashimoto¡¯s Chinese rebellion
From the end of the Edo Period (1603-1867), Japanese art began to shift its fundamental cultural orientation from China to Europe. Kansetsu Hashimoto, however, (1883-1945) initially abjured, and this had much to do with his upbringing
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 11, 2013
¡®Hashimoto Kansetsu Retrospective¡¯
In honor of the 130th anniversary of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artist Kansetsu Hashimoto¡¯s birth, the Hyogo Museum presents around 70 of his most famous works.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 25, 2013
On the mechanics of anime illustration
The 1970s was an important decade for the development of Japanese pop-cultural icons. Kindergarten children back then would likely have been introduced to the characters Doraemon (1969), Anpanman (1973) and Hello Kitty (1974).
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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