January 25, 2024
by Julia Curl
“I don’t want people to be an audience,” the artist explained in a 2014 interview, “I want everybody to be participants. Everybody involved!”
Review of Takako Saito’s exhibition at the Women’s Darkroom + Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Takako Saito: Out of the Box continues at The Women’s Darkroom + Gallery (36 Waverly Avenue #403, Brooklyn) through March 2. The exhibition was curated by Lisa Martin.
A show at the Japan Society focuses on four innovators who created a blueprint for a new society with postcards, scissors, chess sets and instructions.
By Martha Schwendener
Published Oct. 27, 2023 / Updated Oct. 30, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/arts/design/fluxus-artists-japan-society-yoko-ono.html: Takako Saito – NY Times – “Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life”At the Japan Society, October 13, 2023—January 21, 2024
This exhibition will be the first to fully explore the essential role of Japanese women in Fluxus, a movement instigated in the 1960s that helped contemporary artists define new modes of artistic expression. Near the 60th anniversary of the movement’s founding, this exhibition highlights the contributions of four pioneering Japanese artists — Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015), Yoko Ono (1933–), Takako Saito (1929–), and Mieko Shiomi (1938–) — and contextualizes their role within Fluxus and the broader artistic movements of the 1960s and beyond.
The exhibition is organized by Midori Yoshimoto, Guest Curator, and Tiffany Lambert, Curator and Interim Director, Japan Society, with Ayaka Iida, Assistant Curator, Japan Society.
https://japansociety.org/gallery/out-of-bounds-japanese-women-artists-in-fluxus/
Oluremi C. Onabanjo posts on Hélène Amouzou: Voyages Intérieurs show at the Women’s Darkroom + Gallery.
“Searing pictures, spiritual scenes by Hélène Akouavi Amouzou (@helene.amouzou). An ethereal strand of a show, Voyages Intérieurs. Just extended through the end of the month at The Women’s Darkroom + Gallery (@thewomensdarkroom). Well worth peering in, looking long.”
Urs Lüthi: Bologna-New York by Burkhard_Maus (auf Deutsch)
Urs Lüthi has 2 new exhibits opening this year.
Bologna – Otto Gallery Arte Contemporanea +
New York – the women’s darkroom + gallery
