Why not head out to the city to experience art over the winter holidays? Visiting a museum or gallery, where time passes in a slightly different way than usual, is sure to give you new inspiration. We've compiled a list of newly opened art spots and popular exhibitions in and around Tokyo!




■Kusama's message at Yayoi Kusama Museum. "Love my beloved museum for the rest of my life" [Report]

The Yayoi Kusama Museum in Bentencho, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is holding an inaugural exhibition, "Creation is a solitary endeavor; love is the true approach to art," until February 25, 2018. The exhibition centers around the latest painting series, "My Eternal Soul," and also features a mirror room and a new three-dimensional pumpkin sculpture, "Starry Pumpkin," on the rooftop.





©Odawara Art Foundation
■Hiroshi Sugimoto's masterpiece, "Enoura Observatory," has finally opened, "a place to measure the distance between yourself and the world and the universe."

Photographer and contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has invested his own money into a major project, "Odawara Art Foundation." After 20 years from conception to construction, Enoura Observatory will open to the public from the 10th. Spread out on a hill overlooking Sagami Bay, visitors can tour several buildings, including a gallery building displaying photography and antique art, a teahouse, and an optical glass stage.






■Enjoy the ultimate LEGO experience at the "LEGO House" built by LEGO at its Danish headquarters!

LEGO, which boasts enduring popularity as a toy that can be enjoyed by adults and children alike, has opened a "LEGO House" at its Danish headquarters. The facility is divided into four zones - red, blue, green, and yellow - and includes a "Robo Lab" where you can program robots made of LEGO, and an attraction where you can move LEGO blocks to shoot stop-motion movies.

An Art Exhibition You Can See Even During Winter Break

Leandro Erlich, "Building," 2004. Digital print on linoleum, lighting, iron, wood, mirror. 800 x 600 x 1,200 cm. Installation view: 104-Paris, 2011. *Reference image
■Leandro Erlich Exhibition Report! A Surprising Art Experience That Will Make You Question "Seeing"

Leandro Erlich: The Reality of Seeing, a solo exhibition by Argentine contemporary artist Leandro Erlich, known for his "Swimming Pool" at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is being held at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi until April 1st. The exhibition features 44 works, ranging from large-scale installations to videos, including some that are being shown in Japan for the first time.






■Doraemon and artists such as Takashi Murakami in a dream collaboration! "THE Doraemon Exhibition TOKYO" returns for the first time in 15 years [Report]

The Roppongi Hills Mori Arts Center Gallery is hosting "THE Doraemon Exhibition TOKYO" The exhibition "Doraemon 2017" is currently being held. This exhibition features works by 28 artists, including Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Mika Ninagawa, and Kotobuki Shiriagari, who responded to the request to "create your own Doraemon." You will be able to experience the new charms of the national character Doraemon.

Art Exhibitions to See in 2018

■Yoshikazu Yamagata and seven other artists are confronting the "present state of decoration" in "Decoration Never Ends," currently on view at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. (New Year starts January 5th)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum is hosting an exhibition on the theme of "Decoration Never Ends: Seven Ways to Face the 'Now'" (Decoration Never Ends), which explores the theme of decoration, a theme that has always existed with humanity. dies, anyway) will be held until February 25th. It will feature works by seven artists, including Wim Delbois, Ninke Coster, Yamamoto Makiko, and Yamagata Yoshikazu.





Foggy Forest | 1992 | Showa Kinen Park, Tachikawa, Japan (Permanent Installation) / Photo: Shigeo Ogawa
■Exhibition by fog artist Fujiko Nakaya and her scientist father, Ukichiro, to be held at Ginza Maison Hermès

Ginza Maison Hermès The forum is currently hosting an exhibition titled "Greenland: Fujiko Nakaya + Ukichiro," featuring Fujiko Nakaya, an internationally acclaimed fog artist, and her father, Ukichiro. The exhibition will include Fujiko Nakaya's new work, "Glacial Fogfall," as well as photographs taken in Greenland and around Japan.





Recreating the interior of the Tower of the Sun as it was in 1970
■Tracing the path of Taro Okamoto and the Tower of the Sun! A miniature, three-dimensional exhibition of the Osaka Expo Theme Pavilion is currently being held (New Year starts from January 5th)

At the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Minami-Aoyama, a special exhibition titled "Tower of the Sun 1967 - 2018" The first part of "What Taro Okamoto Asked" is running until February 18, 2018. It will feature a rare exhibit that allows visitors to relive Taro Okamoto's artistic exhibition space at the Osaka Expo Theme Pavilion in 3D, as well as a diorama exhibit by Kaiyodo.





David Shrigley, "The Artist," 2012 Animation, 2 minutes 24 seconds. Courtesy: Artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
■Full of black humour. David Shrigley's first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan is being held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito (starting January 4th)

British contemporary artist David Shrigley's first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan, "Lose Your Mind - Welcome to a Dark World," is being held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito until January 21st, 2018. A number of witty drawings incorporating black humor will be on display.






■Special exhibition of Cosmic Wonder "COSMIC WONDER: Abundant Light" to be held at Iwami Art Museum, Shimane Prefecture (New Year starts from January 2nd)

Today, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane Prefecture, is holding the special exhibition of Cosmic Wonder (COSMIC A special exhibition showcasing the activities of COSMIC WONDER, entitled "COSMIC WONDER: Overflowing with Light," will be held until January 8, 2018. Representative pieces from collections presented in Paris between 2000 and 2009 will be on display, along with valuable materials such as lookbooks and photographs documenting the collections.






■An exhibition of Eugène Atget, the father of modern photography who documented old Paris, is being held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Starting January 2nd)

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