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The Mus茅e du quai Branly 鈥� Jacques Chirac is currently presenting an exhibition dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), a central figure of the Japanese avant-gardes.

Paris welcomes Okamoto back with an exhibition at the Muse茅 du Quai Branly that places several of his works 鈥� including his monumental sculpture Tower of the Sun, which he made for the Osaka World Expo in 1970 鈥� alongside items from the museum鈥檚 collection.

鈥淵ou can鈥檛 swim without drowning; you can鈥檛 find an exit unless you hit a wall. It might feel safe to sit in the dark and think quietly, but that path will never lead you to the world of light.

Organised with the backing of Art Basel, Art Week Tokyo (3鈥�6 November 2022) spreads over 50 venues this year, connecting museums, galleries, and art spaces across the city. 

Tar艒 Okamoto, a Japanese painter, sculptor and writer, famous for his paintings and abstract and experimental sculptures, was born on February 26, 1911 in Kawasaki, a city of just under 1.5 million inhabitants, in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan.

As Expo 2025 in Osaka approaches, the Oita Prefectural Art Museum looks back on the career of the artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), who is well-known for the 鈥淭ower of the Sun鈥� sculptural building that became the symbol of Expo 鈥�70.

From New York to Norway, these galleries without walls all debut new exhibitions this spring and summer

Taro Okamoto鈥檚 鈥淢en Aflame鈥� (1955) is a swirling fusion of figuration, surrealism and abstraction.

The camera never lies 鈥� or does it? The double-barreled exhibition now on at the Yokohama Museum of Art suggests that it doesn鈥檛 always tell the truth either.

Postwar avant-garde movements like Gutai and Mono-ha are now getting some serious attention from Western museums and galleries.

Perhaps because we are upright, vertical animals, towers have always held a special fascination for us. The artist Taro Okamoto expressed this attract

An anonymous painter in Japan at the weekend added an image of the stricken Fukushima atomic plant to a public mural about the horrors of a nuclear explosion by the late abstract master Taro Okamoto

Japan's limited progress at Tohoku's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after damage from the Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami