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...From Boston to Chicago to Asia - the early '80s supergroup sold out a recent Japan tour - the bands "of yore," as Japanese concert promoter Keisuke Hirano calls them, can fill the halls of Yokohama or Osaka or Nagoya with middle-aged salarymen recapturing the youth they wished they had. And being "big in Japan" has kept many a washed-up rocker in leather pants and alimony payments...
...ignore its neighbors in favor of installation makers from the West. The Ogaki Biennale (Oct. 6-15) hopes to redress this with Japan's first major showing of Asian media artists. Held in a castle, a shrine and other venues in a small city half an hour outside Nagoya, Ogaki will feature up-and-coming names from Indonesia, India, China, the Philippines and South Korea. According to co-curator and Singaporean art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan, the event will allow visitors to examine the "culturally different notions of art, media and technology." Alternatively, they can simply let themselves be charmed...
...citizens, including a 4-year-old boy. It is high time for the U.S. and the world to rethink whether the Iraq war is still a fight for liberty and justice. If we fail to face the question, atrocities like the one in Haditha will happen again. Kayoko Suganuma Nagoya, Japan...
...most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Among them is the haunting Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki-a gelatin silver print that darkly conveys the force of the atomic bomb that had devastated the city in 1945. The stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images-like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki-are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned...
...stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images - like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki - are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society in constant flux: there can be few more acute observers of this process than Shomei Tomatsu...