Some 60 pieces of art by inmates on death row were displayed in a Diet members' office building Tuesday with the aim of getting lawmakers and their aides to take a harder look at capital punishment.
The one-day exhibition, sponsored by groups opposed to the death penalty, marked the 20th anniversary of a U.N. pact aimed at abolishing capital punishment, organizers said.
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Death-row art shown to lawmakers
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An interview with Japan oil painter Michael Beddall
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Mike Beddall has a new show of his oil paintings on at the Pink Cow in Shibuya- learn a little bit more about the artist (and see some of his great work) right here.
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Pop-artist Hiroki Otsuka Berlin Art Show
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December 2009, Berlin art space "Kunstraum Richard Sorge" presents a large exhibition of Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Hiroki Otsuka's paintings and murals, titled "Everything to More".
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Talk to Mona Lisa in Mandarin
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For centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and her enigmatic smile have inspired as much speculation as admiration. Now she's ready to answer questions -- in Mandarin.
Hatena - when Genetics meets Art - How Odd
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This oil and acrylic painting illustrates endosymbiosis - one organism living inside another. Featured prominently in the painting are mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are both thought to have evolved over millions of years from bacteria living within other bacteria.
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Missing Japanese Painting Found
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A missing painting by the Japanese painter Ryohei Koiso was discovered in a Korean Museum.
"Some had feared that the painting had been lost forever, but it now turns out that it had been purchased by Korean Crown Prince Euimin, who was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army at the time. The painting eventually found its way into the collection of the National Museum of Korea."
Read more »"From Giotto to Early Renaissance Painting from Florence" Exhibition
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At Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art
Chagall or not Chagall... that is the question
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The Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo will withdraw from exhibition three paintings after the Marc Chagall Committee told them that the paintings are fakes. The paintings Portrait of a Woman (1908), Family (1911-1912) and Fiddler (1917) were lent for the Japanese exhibit by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The Moscow museum insists the paintings are by Chagall.
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