• Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress—to exhibitions?

Facts on topics related to Atsuko Tanaka (artist)

Performance art

• Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?

Sculpture

• 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs, and stuffed birds?
• English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
• painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
• Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por created her 2006 work Seeds (pictured), situated at the National Museum of Singapore, from sandstone excavated during the Museum's redevelopment?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
• Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
• Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
• Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker?
• Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts?

Museum of Modern Art

• Coleman Coker's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, the New York City MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the National Building Museum?
• Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art?
• Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
• Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"?
• after acquiring Movado in 1983, Gedalio Grinberg heavily promoted the modernistic "Museum Watch", based on a design by Nathan George Horwitt included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art?
• the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art?

Kyoto

• in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto, Japan, Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
• the 430-foot-tall (131 m) Kyoto Tower (pictured) is the tallest man-made structure in the city of Kyoto, Japan?

Japan

• 196 activists of the Japanese Hyōgikai trade union movement were jailed in 1926 for organizing strikes?
• 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
• 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
• Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
• BoA's Best of Soul made her the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan?
• Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?
• Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
• feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
• General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
• Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II?