Public Programs

Curator Talk

*Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available.

One of the guest curators of the exhibition will talk about the exhibition.

Speaker: Miki Akiko (Guest Curator)

Date: 13:30 - 15:00 Sunday, 26 June, 2011

Venue: Mori Art Museum

Capacity: 80 (bookings not required)

Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)

Talk Session: Sugimoto Hiroshi x Sen So-oku

"Sen Rikyu and Marcel Duchamp: Alchemy of Ideas"

*Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available.

If Marcel Duchamp was the man who placed mass-produced objects on pedestals and thereby upended the notion that artworks must possess sophistication and uniqueness, then 16th century tea master Sen Rikyu was the man who introduced similarly innovative values to the world of the tea ceremony. He did this by producing simple raku tea bowls instead of imported precious ones and also by bringing bamboo vases into teahouses that had once been centered on bronze and Song Dynasty celadon porcelain vases. In this discussion, self-proclaimed ?Duchampian,? Sugimoto Hiroshi, and the future grand tea master of the Mushakoji-Senke, Sen So-oku, make fascinating discoveries as they investigate how the idea of the ?readymade? informed the thought of both Sen Rikyu and Duchamp.

Speakers: Sugimoto Hiroshi (artist), Sen So-oku (future Grand Tea Master of Mushakoji-Senke)

Date: 19:00 - 21:00 Friday, 19 August, 2011

Venue: Tower Hall, Academyhills 49, 49F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower

Capacity: 320 (bookings required)

Admission: General ¥1,000; MAMC Member Free

Organizer: Mori Art Museum, Academyhills

Cooperation: The Odawara Art Foundation

Bookings: * Booked Out

CANCELLATION Talk session “Looking at the French Art Scene through the Marcel Duchamp Prize”

*Japanese-English and French simultaneous interpretation available

These days we are told that it is the ?age of the collector? and also the ?age of co-existence,? but what do collectors and museums make of this situation? What are they thinking about the future? In this session, we take the Marcel Duchamp Prize, which is co-hosted by the collector association ADIAF and an art museum, as a starting point for a discussion on the French art scene, what it means to make an art collection, the relationship between art and society and more.

CANCELLATION Artist Talk

* Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available.

The Artists will talk about the works.

Speaker: Laurent Grasso, Mathieu Mercier, and others
Date: 14:00-16:00 Saturday, 19 March, 2011
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Bookings: * Booked Out