Category: Contemporary Art
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How compatible is the Western mega-gallery model with Japan’s contemporary art ecosystem? (Extract)
Mega-galleries have become the dominant infrastructure of the global art market, reshaping how artists, collectors, and institutions operate. With branches across continents, ever-expanding artist rosters, and financial power few can rival, mega-galleries function through an almost hegemonic model, and their presence in a city often defines a “successful” contemporary art ecosystem, one driven by wealth,…
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Reviewed Work: Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan (Extract)
Wasano, Yuki, and Hiroshi Onishi. 2024. “Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan: Clustering by Art Purchase Motivations and Psychographic Characteristics.” Cogent Social Sciences 10 (1). doi:10.1080/23311886.2024.2382284. Wasano and Onishi’s study represents the first large-scale empirical attempt to classify contemporary art collectors in Japan according to their motivations and psychographic traits. Using a mixed-methods approach, Wasano and…
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RUTEN – In Memory of Takehiko Sugawara
From October 9 to November 8, Galerie Tamenaga Paris presents a commemorative retrospective on the works of Takehiko Sugawara. The artist, who was born in Tokyo in 1962, tragically accidentally passed last summer during a solitary trek on Mount Tsurugi to study Toyama’s ancient cedars. His work merges different traditions: he followed the tradition of…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 