プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot

How compatible is the Western mega-gallery model with Japan’s contemporary art ecosystem? (Extract)

Mega-galleries have become the dominant infrastructure of the global art market, reshaping how artists, collectors, and institutions operate. With branches across continents, ever-expanding artist rosters, and financial power few can… […]
The Role of Ukiyo-e Publishers in the Formation of the Japanese Art Market (c.1700-1850) (Extract)

For decades, and in many cases still today, Western collectors and curators have focused almost exclusively on what they consider “authentic” Japanese art—works that appear traditionally Japanese in medium… […]
Reviewed Work: Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan (Extract)

Wasano, Yuki, and Hiroshi Onishi. 2024. “Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan: Clustering by Art Purchase Motivations and Psychographic Characteristics.” Cogent Social Sciences 10 (1). doi:10.1080/23311886.2024.2382284. Wasano and Onishi’s study represents… […]
Analysis of Kanō Tan’yū’s Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers and the Making of an Early Edo Art Market

Few names hold as much weight in the history of Japanese art as the Kanō family and the influential school that bore their name. Founded in the fifteenth century by… […]
RUTEN – In Memory of Takehiko Sugawara

From October 9 to November 8, Galerie Tamenaga Paris presents a commemorative retrospective on the works of Takehiko Sugawara. The artist, who was born in Tokyo in 1962, tragically accidentally… […]
Frieze London and Art Basel Paris: How emerging galleries pay the price of prestige

Coming back from an intense week at Frieze London, where I worked in the Focus section, I couldn’t help but compare how the two major fairs—Frieze London and Art Basel… […]
Frieze London 2025, Preview KAYOKOYUKI

For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and… […]
Dialogues on Memory: M’Barek Bouhchichi and Pascal Blanchard on French Colonialism, Forgotten Figures, and Black Moroccan Portraiture

At the closing of the exhibition BODY OF MEMORY at Dagoma-Harty Gallery, artist M’Barek Bouhchichi and historian Pascal Blanchard engaged in a conversation on French colonialism and Black Moroccan portraiture,… […]
Thao Nguyen Phan: “The Sun Falls Silently”

“History is written by the winners and when the North won the war in 1975, they rewrote history,” says Thao Nguyen Phan. In “The Sun Falls Silently”, she transforms this… […]