Japan's Best Art Destinations
Tokyo is packed with some of the best museums and galleries in the world, but beyond that in Japan are even more fantastic art hubs. can not escape, and four biennials and triennial
- The Art Islands manicured gardens, these are just some of Japan's best art destinations. Miho Museum
Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima
Kagawa
Prefecture Three islands in Japan's Seto Inland Sea - Naoshima, and a lesser extent Teshima and Inujima - are contemporary art wonderlands. All three are easy to explore on foot or by bicycle, which you hire right outside the ferry terminal. dotted throughout rural island landscape seen huge art installations, is wonderfully surreal. Highlights include Yayoi Kusama of giant, colorful kabocha pumpkins on Naoshima, the stunning Teshima Art Museum and the quirky Inujima Art House Project. Visit Benesse Art Site for information about the art and the islands Benesse House Hotel
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Yayoi Kusama pumpkin on Naoshima Iceland (Photo by Jean-Marie Hullot / CC BY)
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan
Kagawa
PrefectureA short ferry ride from Naoshima, and just outside the coastal town of Takamatsu, you are the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan. Noguchi worked here in Mure, a small town outside of Takamatsu, for six months of the year in the last twenty years of his career. The museum is a result of Noguchi's wish that his studio in Mure in as his New York museum space are made. The museum has 150 sculptures, but because many unfinished remain, the space feels more like a real artist's studio as a museum.
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Shimane
Prefecturea surprise to many, one of the most famous gardens in Japan not known, but is in fact only a few decades old. The Adachi Museum of Art, located about 40 minutes from the city of Matsue, home to a garden attract many of the best in Japan into consideration. The garden blends harmoniously into the landscape, but is only one reason to visit Adachi Museum, which also houses an impressive collection of modern and contemporary Japanese paintings, ceramics and wood carvings. Museum founder Adachi Zenko, himself an avid gardener, was a master of the late painter Yokoyama Taikan, and visitors will Yokoyama works throughout the museum. Do not miss his lively Autumn Leaves painted on a pair of six-panel folding screens.
Miho Museum
Shiga
PrefectureAbout an hour and a half southeast of Kyoto, the Miho Museum named for textile heiress Mihoko Koyama. The museum houses the private collection of Asian and Western antiques, which includes more than 00 pieces, although you will find on display on 250th The museum, three quarters of which is underground, designed by I. M. Pei, using the same French limestone in the entrance hall of the Louvre. Ensure Lunch at Miho Museum to enjoy cafe where meals grown products including at the museum prepared
. Note: The exhibits of the Miho Museum will change frequently, and the Museum of a large closed part each year, so the calendar to check before you go.
Miho Museum (Photo by Ross Fowler / CC BY)
Echigo- Tsumari box
Niigata Prefecture
you really have the expansive Echigo-Tsumari to traverse the field to believe it exists. Image of a green 760 km2 field covered in 0 art installations made by artists from around the world, beautiful, even if in snow (see some wonderful photos here). The field for the type work with the local community to promote tourism and bring visitors to this quiet area a few hours north of Tokyo. visit Echigo-Tsumari field and exploring the surrounding villages is a unique and beautiful way to see the Japanese landscape. If you are visiting the right time, you will be there for Echigo-Tsumari Triennale (see below).
Arte Piazza Bibai
Hokkaido
about an hour away north of Sapporo, Arte Piazza Bibai is an impressive sculpture park with works by Kan Yasuda filled even native Bibai. The quiet park, surrounded by beautiful nature Hokkaido has 40 sculptures in all in white marble and black bronze.
Hakone Open Air Museum (Photo by Bob Owen / CC BY)
Hakone Open Air Museum
Kanagawa Prefecture
by train and bus, Hakone Open Air Museum is two hours and 20 minutes from Tokyo, to make one day trip possible. The name of the museum comes from the 100 outdoor art installations, by modern and contemporary masters, a large garden puncturing. In the permanent exhibition are 11 outdoor sculptures by Henry Moore, who once said: "Sculpture is an art of the open is." Inside are 300 Picasso on display in the Picasso Pavilion, and other sculptures by masters such as Brancusi.
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Japan's top biennials and triennial
Setouchi Triennale
The fantastic Setouchi Triennale comprises 12 islands, the Seto inland sea and Takamatsu city and the city of Uno. Setouchi Triennale runs in three sections - from March to April, july-September and October-November - totaling 108 days. During the triennial see art installations in galleries and public spaces throughout the region (including, of course, Naoshima ), as well as a variety of related events. You would need weeks most of the exhibitions in the Setouchi Triennale (2013 show 150 pieces had) to see, but fortunately some of the facilities are set up throughout the year. to be between the islands is made easy by the low cost ferries that run regularly. Once on the islands, hike, bike or hop on the shuttle bus.
The next Setouchi Triennale is in 2019
Benesse House, Naoshima (Photo by the author)
Nakanojo Biennale
started Nakanojo Biennale in 07 and will in Nakanojo, a town in rural Gunma prefecture (about 150 km northwest of Tokyo). The 2015 Nakanojo Biennale saw 132 artists from Japan and around the world to rise to Nakanojo. The exhibitions, with installations, painting, photography, multimedia work, and videos, are up in two onsen (hot springs) Cities - Shima Onsen and Sawatari Onsen - and in Nakanojo city center in the public and disused spaces as a former wooden schoolhouse. If you are traveling without a car, is the best way to the Nakanojo Biennale is to explore, to be based in Shima Onsen, where the night in a ryokan stay .
The next Nakanojo Biennale in 2017
Yokohama Triennale
Less than an hour south of Tokyo, the water city of Yokohama plays host to one of Japan's most impressive art shows. The recent Yokohama Triennale in 2014 instead, featured a whopping 444 pieces of artwork by 79 artists. Past Yokohama Triennale added topics. "Type Fahrenheit 451: sailing in the sea of forgetfulness". "Our Magic Hour" and talks by artists, film screenings, workshops and activities for children complete the program
next Yokohama Triennale is in 2017 instead of
Echigo-Tsumari Triennale
Since 00 Echigo-Tsumari Field (also introduced above) hosted the Echigo- Tsumari Triennale, with works of art spread throughout the countryside. About the pieces themselves, there is instead a performance-art element to Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, with performances in the villages.
The next Echigo-Tsumari Triennale is in 2018 [1945002statt]
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