Embedded in the festive events for the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Japan CULTURESCAPES is set the focus on TOKYO with the twelfth edition of the festival in 2014.
For the Swiss premiere of Bunraku, which takes place on Saturday in the Theater Basel, remaining tickets are sold with a reduction of 30% on the original price (in all categories).
In Japan, Toshiki Okada is a leading voice in an artists generation, dealing with the apathy that has begun to take hold of society after the Fukushima disaster.
On 21 to 23 November, HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) will celebrate its reopening at new premises at Freilagerplatz on the Dreispitz area in Basel.
The Shôsôin, the Japanese imperial treasure house from the 8th century, holds a large collection of art objects from Japan's Nara and Heian time as well as Tang-China.
European Modern painting would have had a quite other face without Japanese influences - this is art historian Kristina Piwecki's thesis that serves as a starting point to discuss East and West in art.