Category: Review
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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…
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Frieze London 2025, Preview KAYOKOYUKI
For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and abstraction through painting, photography, and video. Daichi Takagi’s work draws deeply from nature and from the elements that shape our everyday surroundings.Early in his career,…