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Watch the videos of the past online public Arts programs by Asia Society Japan. Clicking on an item takes you to the video page on Asia Society's global video gallery.
Mami Kataoka, director of Mori Art Museum, explores Japan’s position in the global contemporary art ecosystem and poses questions on how to increase social, artistic, and economic values.
Mitsumasa Kadota shares his story about how he became an abstract artist in Japan and how he explores latent emotions and sociality in values on canvas.
Etsu Egami, an international artist based in Tokyo, Beijing, and New York, introduces her work and the process in which she explores the essence of communication through mishearing and misunderstanding.
Ai Makita, a visual artist, takes us on a journey of her art form and tells us how working in both Tokyo and New York has affected how she sees herself in the art world.
Everett Kennedy Brown, a Kyoto-based American artist, takes us on a mystical journey where past, present and future collide through his photographic works, using wet plate negatives.
The founder of Art Platform Tokyo, Noriko Kashiwagi, discusses the challenges Tokyo local artists face when they venture into the global market and the skills and mindset those artists need to acquire.