Well-known avant-garde Japanese artist and writer Genpei Akasegawa died in a Tokyo hospital on Sunday Morning. According to NHK, the 77-year-old artist had been hospitalized repeatedly while ...

The exhibition “Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s” at Museum Brandhorst brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and more ...

Avant-garde artist Genpei Akasegawa died of blood poisoning at a Tokyo hospital Sunday morning. He was 77. Born Katsuhiko Akasegawa in Yokohama, he attended Musashino Art School, now Musashino Art ...

These urban vestiges first caught the attention of an artist in Japan named Genpei Akasegawa. One day, in 1972, he came across a staircase that went up and then back down but had no door at the top.

The Chiba City Museum of Art has accumulated more than 500 works by Genpei Akasegawa, who sadly passed away this week. A multidisciplinary artist whose oeuvre includes everything from illustration ...

Formed by vanguard artists Jiro Takamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi in the ’60s, the Hi-Red Center collective aimed to use art to stir up and blow sparks into the tediousness of ...

We are talking Thomassons, more fully Hyperart Thomasson or Chōgeijutsu Tomason, a type of conceptual art named by Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s. Stairway to heaven? Steps from ...

Formed by vanguard artists Jiro Takamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi in the 60s, 'Hi-Red Center' has been aiming to use art to stir up and blow life into our tedious daily lives.

HiRed Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu who enacted happeningstyle performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan The film is an ...

Our story last week about Thomassons, a type of conceptual art named by Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s, generated significant feedback from readers. Loading A Thomasson is a useless ...

This chart shows whether Akasegawa Genpei’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks have ...