Category: Painting
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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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Analysis of Kanō Tan’yū’s Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers and the Making of an Early Edo Art Market
Few names hold as much weight in the history of Japanese art as the Kanō family and the influential school that bore their name. Founded in the fifteenth century by Kanō Masanobu (1434–1530), the Kanō School shaped Japan’s visual culture for nearly four centuries, sustaining unrivalled authority over official commissions and elite patronage while adapting…
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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…