Nagisa Oshima
TOKYO – David Bowie’s association with Japan continues this week with the opening of a David Bowie Café within the Sony Building, Ginza, for three weeks.The café is being created to celebrate the launch of Bowie’s first album in ten years, titled “The Next...
“Tokyo 1955-1970,” the current sixth-floor exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is subtitled “A New Avant-Garde,” and, as rich and strange and garish as the show is, I’m inclined to call it “an Other Avant-Garde.” Trauma is indistinguishable from...
Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, January 14- 18, 2013:ART — In the ongoing debate of the impact of money and art, Ben Davis emphasized three “hard...
After years of ill health, the filmmaker Nagisa Oshima died of pneumonia Tuesday at a hospital near Fujisawa, south of Tokyo. He was 80.The second most famous Japanese auteur after Akira Kurosawa in the 1960s and ’70s, noted for his...
