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20 September 2012

Toru Kuwakubo Special Weekend Opening 13th-14th October

Our special weekend opening for this exhibition on October 13th and 14th coincides with Frieze, London’s premier Art Fair. If you are in London for the Frieze London Art Fair at Regent’s Park, why not come over to Daiwa Foundation Japan House which is opposite Regent’s Park at 13/14 Cornwall Terrace / Outer Circle. Even if you are not planning to visit Frieze, this special opening provides an opportunity for those who usually work during 9 to 5 to see the first London solo show of one of Japan’s foremost contemporary painters. Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery will be open from 10am to 2pm on 13th and 14th October . On September 27th at 6pm, we will host a talk by the artist and Professor Adrian Favell.

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18 September 2012

Kan Yasuda: Lunchtime Talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

On Wednesday 26 September 2012, there is a talk about the work of Japanese sculptor Kan Yasuda by Peter Murray, Executive Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The talk will be held at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and starts at at 13:15, finishing at 14:00. The talk is free but space is limited. Admission is by

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14 September 2012

Japanese Garden Society Book and Exhibition

We gave a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant to the Japanese Garden Society in 2010 to support their project Visions of Paradise – the Japanese Garden in the UK. They published an 80-page booklet and proceeds from sales of the booklet have gone into funding a travelling exhibition about Japanese Gardens in the UK. This exhibition

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11 September 2012

Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar, will be exhibiting at the 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 12 September – 28 October

Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar, will be exhibiting ‘Notes from the Tokyo Underground’, a series of line drawings made on Tokyo trains, at The 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 12 September – 28 October.

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22 August 2012

'Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain' is on at the V&A until 27 January 2013

Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain is an apt name for this display of Japanese street-style clothing based around Lolita fashion. This fashion emerged during the 1990s as a radical form of street style born out of the Japanese taste for Hello Kitty cuteness.

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20 August 2012

Don't miss Julian Opie's exhibition at the Lisson Gallery; it's on until 25 August 2012

Japanese art, notably Hokusai or Hiroshige, has inspired many significant artists, such as Van Gogh, Monet, Whistler, and Degas. This inspiration is shown in different ways;

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14 August 2012

World Event Young Artists 2012, 7-16 September 2012, Nottingham

World Event Young Artists (WEYA) is the first of its kind and will take place in Nottingham from 7 to 16 September 2012. This global event will showcase a selection of the best international creative talent, across a spectrum of artforms, in one city, providing an opportunity for 1000 artists from 100 nations to join together and share their creativity on an international platform.

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8 August 2012

Game on! Artist talk by Kosuge 1-16 at the Japan Foundation on 10 July 2012

At The Japan Foundation’s talk on 10 July, Debbie Kermode, Deputy Director of the Ikon and one of the curators of The Playmakers, spoke about its background and appeal.

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2 August 2012

Tokyo 1964 Exhibition – Embassy of Japan, London

The Japanese Embassy are currently hosting a Tokyo 1964 Olympics exhibition filled with both exciting memorabilia kept from the games itself, and an excellent bank of information and facts about Tokyo at the time of the games.

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25 July 2012

Review of mac birmingham's 'THE PLAYMAKERS' (Sat 7 Jul – Sun 9 Sep 2012)

Operating out of Tokyo’s Kusoge suburb, KOSUGE1-16 is a husband-and-wife duo renowned for their adventurous and interactive art. A glance at their website yields works such as a larger-than-life table football assembly, manned by up to 12 competing children, as well as an equally impressive and interactive Scalextric-esque cycledrome.

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