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The First Tokyo Gendai Art Fair Is Off to a Promising Start. But There’s a Long Road Ahead for Japan to Compete on the Global Stage

It is July in Yokohama, Japan, a port city situated to the south of Tokyo’s urban sprawl. Slowed down by the blistering heat, a cohort of besuited men filtered drowsily into the cavernous Pacifico ...
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Meet the Power Players Driving Tokyo Gendai, From the Dealer Who Discovered Yoshitomo Nara to a Psychiatrist Art Collector

Pacifico Yokohama may experience some déjà vu when the inaugural Tokyo Gendai (July 7–9) arrives this week. The same venue also hosted the first Art Fair Tokyo back in 1992. While the Japanese art ...
Observer

Tokyo Gendai Confirms Japan’s Rising Market Strength

Roughly one-third of the exhibitors were new to the fair, signaling growing interest in reaching Japanese collectors. Still, some galleries chose not to return, underscoring the challenges the market ...
Observer

Director Eri Takane On Tokyo Gendai’s Expanding Footprint in Japan’s Fast-Growing Market

Tokyo Gendai opens at PACIFICO Yokohama with a VIP preview and Vernissage on September 11. Photo: Kenji Chiga | Courtesy Tokyo Gendai At the beginning of this year, a new report revealed that the ...
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New art fair Tokyo Gendai will introduce international contemporary artists to a younger generation of Japanese collectors

The team of art fair veterans who launched Art HK in 2008, sold it to Art Basel, and later started art fairs in five other Asia-Pacific cities, announced on June 9 that they will introduce a new fair ...