What we’re about
"Art Is What You Can Get Away with" -Marshall McLuhan (Propagated by Andy Warhol)
WHY?
Because there are numbers of interesting art shows and cultural events in the Greater Tokyo Area.
WHAT?
We will check out all types of cultural events. The main focus of the meet up group will be checking out art exhibitions, but we are not art snobs. We will check out anything as long as they are entertaining to us.
WHO?
Anyone who likes to explore art + culture in the Greater Tokyo Area should join.
HOW?
Just click "yes" for the RSVP response and show up to the meeting place.
HOW MUCH?
The price of an admission ticket.
HOW OFTEN?
Once a week hopefully.
WHY NOT JOIN US?
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Chanoyu Aesthetics: Rikyu, Oribe and Enshu’s Tea UtensilsMitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo
For this meetup, we will check out an exhibition that examines the aesthetic sensibilities of the three tea masters: Rikyu, Oribe and Enshu.
"This exhibition has selected tea ceremony utensils made by Sen no Rikyu, Oribe Furuta, and Enshu Kobori, who led the world of the tea ceremony from the Momoyama period to the early Edo period, to explore their respective aesthetic sensibilities.
In recent years, many studies on the history of the tea ceremony have been published, reexamining the 'created legends' of famous tea masters and pursuing the 'true form' of the tea ceremony.
While keeping this trend in mind, this exhibition will be organized in the conventional way of understanding the aesthetic senses of the three tea masters: Rikyu's 'wabi-sabi' beauty, Oribe's 'hakaku-no-bi' beauty, and Enshu's 'kirei-sabi' beauty. The purpose of this exhibition is to allow visitors to view the tea ceremony utensils themselves, to sense the aesthetic sensibilities of Rikyu, Oribe, and Enshu, and to contemplate the 'truth' of the three from the perspective of the aesthetics of the tea ceremony." [from Tokyo Art Beat]Location
Mitsui Memorial Museum
(https://www.mitsui-museum.jp/english/english.html)Exhibition to see
Chanoyu Aesthetics: Rikyu, Oribe and Enshu’s Tea UtensilsMeeting Time
03:00PM (15:00)Meeting Spot
At the museum lobbyMuseum Admission Fee
¥1,200Information about the exhibition (in Japanese)
https://www.mitsui-museum.jp/exhibition/index.htmlChat session after the show
As usual, let's have a chat session at the end of the event. When we meet up before the exhibition, let's decide where we go after the show.Not open - Carl Andre: Between Sculpture and PoetryKawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
For this meetup, we will check out the first ever retrospective of Carl Andre in Japan.
"Carl Andre (1935-2024) is one of the best-known sculptors of the Minimal Art movement, which emerged chiefly in the United States in the late 1960s. Between Sculpture and Poetry is Andre’s first solo exhibition in a Japanese museum. It makes full of use of its spacious venue to showcase Andre’s well-known sculptures made of blocks of wood, plates of metal, and slabs of stone processed to the same size and shape and placed in regular arrangements directly on the floor. In light of the way they act on the space in which they are installed, the artist describes these works using the term “sculpture as place.”
To view these sculptures in person reveals details that bely the regimented, inorganic impression they make: the way the metal gleams or rusts, the grain of the wood, the heft of the stone—the composed self-possession of matter itself. It also becomes apparent that not all of the units share the exact same size or shape.
Between Sculpture and Poetry also includes a selection of Andre’s poetry, which is evaluated highly by those familiar with it. Andre creates his poems by typing verbal fragments on a typewriter, and the results can be appreciated both as literature and as visual arrangements. Along with the spatial and structural awareness also evident in Andre’s sculpture, they reflect his thinking in a wide range of fields, including literature, art, history, and politics.
We invite visitors to Between Sculpture and Poetry to enjoy its presentation of Andre’s work in these two widely divergent forms." [from the description of the exhibition at the museum site (https://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/en/art/exhibition/)]#Exhibition to see#
Carl Andre: Between Sculpture and Poetry#Location#
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
(https://kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/en/information/access/)#Museum Admission Fee#
¥1,800Schedule
09:00AM Meet inside of the North Exit Gate of Keisei Nippori station (http://www.keisei.co.jp/keisei/tetudou/stationmap/pdf/us/103.pdf)
**Keisei Nippori Station is connected to JR Nippori Station. You can get to JR Nippori Station by Yamanote line.
If you are not familiar with Nippori station, I recommend you to arrive at the station a little earlier just in case you get lost in the station.09:17AM Leave from Keisei Nippori
10:26AM Arrive at Keisei Narita StationLunch and quick sightseeing of Narita-san
02:00PM Leave from Keisei Narita Station
02:12PM Arrive at Keisei Sakura Station
02:20PM Leave from Keisei Sakura Station
02:50PM Arrive at Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of ArtEnjoy the exhibition and the permanent collections
05:15PM Leave from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art