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    I was invited to hold a lecture at the Art Taipei 2006 art fair (5/5-9). The theme I was given was "The Contemporary Art Market in Tokyo"…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated May 11, 2006
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    Finally I found the time to go and see the To the Human Future / Flight from the Dark Side exhibition at Art Tower Mito (through 5/7). It’s a powerful show…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated April 20, 2006
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    Starting this April, I'm appearing regularly in a talk program about art on J-WAVE radio (broadcast in the greater Tokyo area), as part of the daily "Nescafe…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated April 06, 2006
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    2006 is the "Australia-Japan Year of Exchange", and the Australian government invited me on a research trip to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated March 23, 2006
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    It was last December that I received a strange letter. The envelope contained a bookmarker apparently made by clipping a photograph, a handdrawn map…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated March 09, 2006
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    The 12 months of "Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006", stuffed with events related to art and culture, economics, science, sports and other things German…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated February 23, 2006
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    Film director Arnaud Desplechin visited the country to show three of his movies, including the brand new "Kings and Queen" (2004, shown for the first time…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated February 09, 2006
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    "Why do people draw?" It recently became evident that some massive research into this fairly tricky issue is under way. A symposium…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated January 26, 2006
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    An article artist Ozawa Tsuyoshi wrote for REALTOKYO caused a stir in the Japanese art world. A work he produced in collaboration with Chinese artist…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated January 12, 2006
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    (continued from Vol. 128) The third issue of "Courrier Japon" is out now. Next to reports on Iraq, a special on the bird flu and an article titled "Asia is watching…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated December 22, 2005
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    I wrote about "Courrier International", a magazine that launched 15 years ago in Paris, once in this column about three years ago…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated December 08, 2005
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    The Second Guangzhou Triennial (through 2006/1/15) opened on November 18 under the artistic direction of internationally active independent curator…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated November 24, 2005
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    On 11/5 I went to Komabara Agora Theater see the soiree show of "Mokutekichi (Destination)" by Okada Toshiki’s company Chelfitsch…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated November 10, 2005
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    The "Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time" exhibition (through January 9) at Mori Art Museum is excellent. Although Sugimoto is one of the world’s greatest masters…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated October 27, 2005
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    After writing the last volume of this column I visited the Yokohama Triennale twice. Takamine Tadasu’s (completed) piece "Kagoshima Esperanto" is…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated October 13, 2005
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    I attended a sneak preview of the Yokohama Triennale on 9/27. Director Kawamata Tadashi himself guided a press tour, but of course a one-hour walk across the…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated September 29, 2005
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    On 9.11 I went to Ai Hall in Itami, to see "Motto Darwin", artist Takamine Tadasu’s first ever work for the stage. His experience with this genre so far include…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated September 15, 2005
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    First of all, as a follow-up information of my previous report on Ameya Norimizu’s exhibition, let me tell you that the artist is back among the living…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated September 01, 2005
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    I heard that P-House is back on the scene, so I went to the new space on Roppongi’s TV Asahi Dori to see what the P-House folks are up to. P-House first opened…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated August 18, 2005
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    On 7/18 I went to the newly opened Kichijoji Theatre to see "3-nen 2-kumi". Although written, directed and choreographed by Yanaihara Mikuni from the…
    Ozaki Tetsuya
    Updated August 04, 2005