Katsuo Suzuki, Curator

Suzuki received his MA in art history from the University of Tokyo and has worked at MOMAT since 1998, specialising in modern and contemporary art of Japan and the West. I interviewed him by email in 2002 for an article about a Kandinsky exhibition that I was writing for the Asahi Shimbun International Herald Tribune. The sourcing of all the paintings from Russia could be seen as part of Putin's early attempt at cultural power projection. 

 

Ian Astbury, singer

On the 26th of March, 2010, I did a telephone interview with Ian Astbury, the singer of the legendary rock band The Cult. He was in the USA (New York). I was in Tokyo, probably late in the evening, He was very happy to talk, and the interview could easily have been extended well beyond the one hour that it lasted. Also check out the actual recording now up on YouTube.