José Parlá Morning Blossoms Over Tokyo (Multiversal) 2025 6 x 16 feet (182.8 x 487.6 cm) quadriptych Acrylic, oil paint, plaster and collage on canvas Starting June 20th (Friday) The Pola Museum Annex (Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) will hold a solo exhibition of works by internationally active New York-based artist Jose Parla titled "Home Away from Home" from Friday, June 20th to Sunday, July 27th, 2025. Born in Miami in 1973, Parla grew up surrounded by diverse immigrant cultures, including those from the United States, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. This environment deeply influenced his understanding of urban life and art, providing a great inspiration for his work. Parla's work, characterized by…
~ A day to experience Japanese culture in Higashi Ginza ~ “HIGASHI GINZA Traditional Festival” will be held
For two days only, there will be live Japanese dance performances and a relaxing space with a Japanese theme! Higashi Ginza Area Management General Incorporated Association will hold the HIGASHI GINZA Traditional Festival, an event to enjoy traditional culture in the Higashi Ginza area, for two days on Saturday, May 24th and Sunday, May 25th, 2025. Higashi Ginza was once a town bustling with theaters, with many feudal lords' mansions and traditional Japanese restaurants. Famous shops and theaters remain here unchanged. Traditional culture of Kabuki and Shimbashi Geisha. A live performance of "Japanese dance", which has supported traditional Japanese culture as part of Higashi Ginza's history, will be held in…
Japan’s only* free urban entertainment festival “Hibiya Festival 2025” will kick off its “Music Weekend” on Saturday, May 17th, where a variety of music will resonate over the early summer weekend!
Tokyo Midtown Hibiya is hosting the Hibiya Festival 2025, an urban festival where you can enjoy performing arts and live music in an open-air setting for free, until Sunday, June 1st. Starting Saturday, May 17th, the music-themed Music Weekend will kick off, bringing the festival to a new heights. *This is the only festival format in Japan where you can enjoy a wide variety of entertainment, such as musicals, operas, ballets, and live music, provided by multiple theaters, theater companies, and production groups, for free outdoors in the city center. This year, during the "Act Weeks" in the first half of the festival, various stage productions gathered at Tokyo Midtown…
[Experience Report] “What is common sense?!” Exhibition held at METoA Ginza. Numerous experiential content that makes you think about a brighter future from everyday “common sense”
Mitsubishi Electric Event Square "METoA Ginza" in Ginza, Tokyo is holding its final event, "Rediscover and discover new things in the 'ordinary' of everyday life. Is it obvious!?" before it closes on Monday, August 4, 2025. Admission is free. "Rediscover and rediscover the 'ordinary' of everyday life. Is it ordinary!? Exhibition" METoA Ginza , named after "Mitsubishi Electric: Touch of Advancement," is an experiential facility where visitors can have fun learning about Mitsubishi Electric Group's products, technologies, and sustainability initiatives by "seeing," "touching," and "experiencing." It opened in March 2016 at Tokyu Plaza Ginza and has entertained over 6 million visitors to date, but unfortunately it has been decided that…
[Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore] Shintaro Inoue’s solo exhibition “NO BORDER LINE” will be held from Saturday, May 17th. He depicts women as symbols of the times.
Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore (6th floor, GINZA SIX, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) will hold Shintaro Inoue's solo exhibition "NO BORDER LINE" in the central event space GINZA ATRIUM from Saturday, May 17th to Tuesday, May 27th, 2025. Special feature page | https://store.tsite.jp/ginza/event/art/47028-1504550428.html Right:《That Woman: Ultramarine Blue 4》2025 Acrylic on canvas 803×652mm Left:《That Woman: Ultramarine Blue 5》2025 Acrylic on canvas 727×606mm ·overview Shintaro Inoue is an artist who draws with simple lines and colorful colors, based on the calligraphy experience he has cultivated since childhood. He mainly uses acrylic paint to create a portrait series depicting women as symbols of the era. This exhibition, which is the artist's third solo exhibition at Ginza Tsutaya…
[Ginza Wako] “Evolution of Metal Works III” will be held from May 22nd (Thurs.)
Iron inlay box "chroma" 32 x 9 x 10cm An exhibition by six cutting-edge metal sculpture artists Seiko House Hall will be holding its third Wako exhibition, "Evolution of Metal Works III," from May 22nd (Thurs) to June 1st (Sun), featuring works by six cutting-edge artists who demonstrate distinctive individuality in the field of metal sculpting. Using advanced metalworking techniques, Kensaku Aihara creates poetic depictions of landscapes populated by insects. Kosuke Kato creates a world that weaves together the wavy patterns and neat shapes of his own Damascus steel. Keiko Kume creates assemblages that exude the breath of life and a microcosm through openwork and soldering. Naoki Sakai proposes works…
“Tadanori Yokoo: Unfinished Self-Portrait – Journey to Myself” is being held at the Gucci Ginza Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.
Courtesy of Gucci ©Tadanori Yokoo In 2025, Gucci will develop a variety of art projects in Japan with the theme of co-creation with the community through creativity. The main initiative will be an exhibition with Tadanori Yokoo, one of Japan's leading artists. Courtesy of Gucci ©Tadanori Yokoo Courtesy of Gucci ©Tadanori Yokoo Gucci's connection with Tadanori Yokoo dates back to the window art project that marked the opening of Gucci Shibuya Miyashita Park in 2020. Further developing this dynamic and creative collaboration, Yokoo's solo exhibition "Tadanori Yokoo: Unfinished Self-Portrait – Journey to Myself" will be held at the Gucci Ginza Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo from Wednesday, April 23, 2025. The…
Exhibition on “100 Years of Matsuya Ginza’s Footprints”
■Dates: April 29th (Tuesday, national holiday) to May 13th (Tuesday) ■ Venue: Matsuya Ginza, Space of Ginza, next to the stairs We look back on the 100-year history and changes that Matsuya Ginza has gone through. 1868: The first Tokubei Furuya started a kimono intermediate business traveling between Tokyo and Yokohama. Matsuya's founder, Tokubei Furuya, was born in Yamanashi Prefecture and started his own intermediate business in Yokohama, a bustling city with lively trade following the opening of the port. A middleman, also known as a buyer, was an intermediary who took orders from kimono retailers, procured goods from wholesalers in Tokyo, and sold them to the retailers. 1869: Tsuruya…
The first anniversary project of the multipurpose museum “Tea Culture Creation Museum” and “Oi Ocha Museum” will be held from April 29th (Tue) to May 6th (Tue), 2025.
The total number of visitors to this complex museum, which is co-creating the future of tea, has exceeded 100,000. To commemorate one year of your patronage, we will be holding a commemorative event for about one week around the 88th day! To commemorate the first anniversary of the founding of the Tea Culture Creation Museum and Oi Ocha Museum, which serve as hubs for co-creating the future of tea, ITO EN Co., Ltd. will be holding a first anniversary event from Tuesday, April 29th to Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, around the 88th day after the event. Tea is a familiar drink that permeates our lives as a communication tool that…
[Report] “Odilon Redon – Dream of Light, Radiance of Shadow” exhibition opens at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art. A look at Redon’s paintings, who carved out a unique world between reality and fantasy.
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was born in the same generation as Monet and other Impressionist painters, who vividly captured everyday scenes in the shifting light of the day. However, he was known as one of the leading French Symbolist painters, painting fantastical worlds dominated by deep darkness and filled with visions that could be described as bizarre and mysterious. The Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art has opened an exhibition entitled "PARALLEL MODE: Odilon Redon – Dream of Light, Radiance of Shadow," showcasing the full scope of his rich artistic career through approximately 110 works, including masterpieces from Japan and abroad, centered on works from the Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art, which…