A new concept in philanthropy for the arts, offering paid for services with proceeds going to support the contemporary arts in Japan
VIP Japan Art & Architecture Tours both ancient & contemporary with full concierge services, including hotels, restaurants, car & driver.
VIP tours in art & architecture plus exotic adventures through out Asia & Australia.
VIP tours around the world at international art & architecture events i.e. fairs, biennales, & major exhibitions.
the ART foundation
Email: art@theartfoundation.com
the ART foundation, in an effort to keep alive the tradition of Japanese influence in contemporary arts and architecture for more than thirty years years has provided spaces for exhibitions , film screenings, performances, book launchings, promotional events, and residencies. the ART foundation has produced events with little known names and institutions to such names as Gilbert and George, Francesco Clemente, Joseph Kosuth, Tracey Emin, Tracey Moffat, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles Country Museum, the Tate Gallery, Kunsthalle Wein, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, the ART Gallery of New South Wales and the Venice Bienniale. the ART foundation has provided residencies for a number of institutions including the Tate Gallery, the de Menil Collection, the French government agency Institut Francais, the Japan Foundation and an architect in residency for U.C. Berkeley's doctorate program sponsored by the Ohbayashi Construction Co. Foundation.
ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. David Adjaye, Architect, London
Mr. Richard Bender, Dean Emeritus School ofArchitecture U. C. Berkeley
Mr. Paul Cuthbert-Brown, Partner Creo Capital, Singapore
Mr. Mark Dytham, Klein and Dytham Architects, Tokyo
Mr. Stuart Evans, Corporate Art Curator,
The Law Firm of Simmons and Simmons, London
Mr. David Elliott, curator and founding director of the MORI Art Museum, Tokyo
Mr. Thierry Porte, C.E.O., Reimei Global, Tokyo
Don and Mera Rubell, Rubell Hotels and Rubell Family Art Collection, Miami
Director
Joni Waka