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The National Art Center, Tokyo, is hosting the first major retrospective of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami. This exhibition, titled "Adventures in Memory," explores Tanaami's extensive and varied body of work, showcasing his impact on modern art and featuring his newest creations.For over 60 years, Tanaami has produced a wide range of art, including paintings, collages, sculptures, animations, videos, and installations. The exhibition delves into the theme of "memory," presenting new paintings, sculptures, and animations, as well as important graphic designs from the late 1960s and early 1970s, colorful wooden sculptures from the 1980s, and some of his early pop art pieces recently discovered in his studio.Tanaami began his career as a designer at Musashino Art University and became the f...

A selection of Keith Haring's Subway Drawings will soon be on view at The Modern Institute in Glasgow. The forthcoming exhibition will highlight the American artist's impact on art over the past 40 years, paying special emphasis on Haring's explorations into language and semiotics. Haring created hundreds of subway artworks with white chalk between 1980 and 1985, scribbling his now iconic visual lexicon that commented on gender, sexuality and the flux of urban life — which in New York at the time, had just began recovering from a destructive fiscal crisis several years prior. "I remember noticing a panel in the Times Square station and immediately going aboveground and buying chalk," Haring recalled. "After the first drawing things just fell into place. I began drawing on the subways as a ...

Los Angeles-based artist Steven Harrington will release four limited edition art toys of his alter ego, Mello the dog. The collectible coincides with his first ever museum solo exhibition, Stay Mello, which is currently on view at Seoul's Amorepacific Museum of Art. As the most comprehensive survey on Harrington's work to date, the show traces his early beginnings as a graduate of Art Center College of Design and his many collaborations in the streetwear world to his imprint in fine art. "A lot of artists are never given the chance to see their work in a museum like this within their lifetime," Harrington previously told Hypeart. "So it’s a tremendous honor. Overall, working with the team was a really big learning experience in not only how to look at the work, but how to organize it and l...

Londoners will be able to immerse themselves in one of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms through a new solo exhibition at Victoria Miro this September. The forthcoming show, the Japanese artist's 14th with the gallery, will also include a series of new paintings entitled Every Day I Pray For Love, an exploration into line, color and form.Locals don't have to wait to the autumn to get a first glimpse at Kusama's latest work, as she'll install her first ever UK public installation at Liverpool Street Station. Entitled Infinite Accumulation, the work showcases Kusama's affinity for polka dots as the art winds and expands "into linked forms that interact with and define public spaces outside the station," according to a statement. The installation is "designed in response to the architecture of th...