Art
Rethinking the Laws of Nature at Helsinki's New Amos Rex Museum
The choice of the teamLab collective for the opening exhibition of the Amos Rex Museum indicates that the museum's mission is sharing the exuberant power of art.
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How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries
The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.
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An Anti-Zen Garden Full of Skulls and More Unearthly Unease
The beauty and hell of utopia and dystopia is the subject of Japan Society's Garden of Unearthly Delights, which opened today in Manhattan.
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Kitsch, Myth, and Technology: Japanese Art in the West
Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and “technological sophistication.”