Green tour Kyoto | travel information in JAPAN » August 2011
Arts & Performances
Kyoto is a birth place of traditional arts, crafts and performances of Japan, and has been maintaining its tradition with the
coming of the new age. Here GTK'd like to introduce the monthly art highlights, museums, creators etc.
Highlights of August 2011 Art
Communication : Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer
Copyright : Johannes Vermeer “A Girl Reading A Letter”, 1663-64 This is a good opportunity to see approximately 40 great works by the representative painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Gerard ter Borch. This exhibition features the conversation between the painters and their family or lovers, which is expressed [...]
Art Campus -how to appreciate Japanese art
Copyright : 伊藤若冲筆 虻に双鶏 Hosomi Museum offers an opportunity for you to appreciate the Japanese arts and museums. This year they feature works with the theme of Shinto and Buddhism art, ink painting and handicraft from three eras: Kamakura, Muromachi and Momoyama. You can buy some sophisticated souvenirs at the museum shop and have lunch at [...]
KAMEN RIDER ART GALLERY Exhibition -Message from SHOTARO ISHINOMORI
copyright : ©石森章太郎プロ This is a special exhibition of a Japanese superhero “Kamen Rider”, who has appeared on TV and in movies since his debut 40 years ago. About 500 items including the original illustrations, figures, chronology and some information about the character are being shown this time. The great works by Ishinomori Shotaro, the [...]
Ukiyo-e collection from the MKG Hamburg – the 150th anniversary of Japan-German Treaty-
Copyright : 東洲斎写楽『松本米三郎のけはい坂の少将実はしのぶ』 © MKG Hamburg The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg has collected about 5,000 wood-block printings since its establishment in 1887. They include the works by Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai and other famous ukiyo-e artists. “Surimono” the prints for a personal gift and some materials such as the pictures for printing, the wood blocks etc. [...]
Japanese Painting Exhibition
Copyright : 小松均《赤富士》1980年 京都府立総合資料館蔵(京都文化博物館管理) This exhibition is held to commemorate the 70th year of the foundation of the Kyoto Japanese painting Association, and also the renewal of this museum. The Kyoto Japanese painting Association was established by Takeuchi Seiho, Hashimoto Kansetsu and other famous Japanese painters in 1941. It is currently organized by about 550 painters. [...]
Traditional Theater Training Recital
PHOTO: AOZORA Traditional Japanese performances such as noh, kyogen and buyo dance will be performed by foreigners who participated in the three week program, Traditional Theater Training. The participants will show their efforts at a traditional noh hall on this day. Professional performers of noh, kyogen and buyo who are the teachers of this program [...]
Paper-Cutting Exhibition by Imamura Mitsuhiko
copyright : （Ｃ）Mitsuhiko Imamori This exhibition features the paper-cutting works with images of insects, plants and nature scenes, created by Imamura Mitsuhiko. He is a nature photographer as well as a paper-cutting artist. He creates the works with only one pair of scissors. Examples include : insects’ antennae, patterns from wings of birds and insects [...]
- Kyoto National Museum
- 9:30~18:00 (Sun~Wed & Sat) 9:30~20:00 (Fri)
- Closed on Monday
- 075-525-2473
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- 9:30~17:00
- Closed on Monday
- 075-761-4111
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- 9:00 ~ 17:00 (admission until 16:30)
- Closed on Monday
- 075-771-4107
- The Museum of Kyoto
- 10:00~19:30 (Special Exhibition 10:00~18:00)
- Closed on Monday & Dec.28~Jan.3
- 075-222-0888
- Kyoto International Manga Museum
- 10:00~18:00
- Closed on Wednesday
- 075-254-7414
- Hosomi Museum
- 10:00~18:00
- Closed on Monday
- 075-752-5555
- Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- 10:00~17:00 only on April, November and February
- 075-802-7000
- Jotenkaku Museum
- 10:00~16:30 only on the special exhibition term
- 075-241-0423
Recent entries
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- GEAR
- Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on June and July
- ART Complex
- Ito Jakuchu Exhibition
- June 8th ~ September 29th, 10:00-17:00 (entry by 16:30) everyday
- Jotenkaku Museum (in the Shokoku-ji Temple Ground)
- The Kanze Family Exhibition
- April 3rd ~ May 26th, 10:00-17:00 everyday
- Jotenkaku Museum (in the Shokoku-ji Temple's Ground)
- The Inca Empire Revealed: Century After the Machu Picchu “Discovery”
- April 16th ~ June 23rd, 10:00-18:00 (~19:30 on Friday, entry by 30 minutes before close), closed on Mondays
- The Museum of Kyoto (京都文化博物館)
- “The Next Stage”: The New Exhibition at Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- April 1st ~ 30th, 10:00-17:00 (last admission 16:30)（closed from 13:00 on April 12 )
- Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- Masterworks from the Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein
- March 19th ~ June 9th, 9:00-17:00 (enter by 16:30), closed on Mondays (open on Apr.29&May 6)
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- Ancient Glass: Feast of Color -on Special Loan from the British Museum
- March 9th ~ June 9th, 10:00-17:00 (enter by 16:00), closed on Mondays (open on Apr.29 & May.6)
- MIHO MUSEUM
- UNknown Alfons Mucha
- March 1st ~ 31st, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- EKI Museum Kyoto (JR Kyoto Isetan Department Store, 7F)
- Diorama Exhibition by Takaki Yamamoto
- February 28th ~ March 11th, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- Takashimaya Grand hall (7F of Takashimaya Department Store)
- Kaga Akae Exhibition -The Lure of Red and the Glitter of Gold
- January 6th ~ 21st, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- Takashimaya Grand hall (7F of Takashimaya Department Store)
