Born on December 24, 1932 in Kariya, Japan, he went on to study art and travel in Mexico where his father was the director of an engineering company. Much of Kawara’s later life was spent traveling ...

Courtesy One Million Years Foundation and David Zwirner, Paris Kawara would go on to make nearly 3,000 ‘date paintings’, each attesting to moments in history and the inexorable passage of time. These ...

On Kawara and his Today Series. Two years later with a Stop Asian Hate initiative by the Center of Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the artist led a political art action through the ...

In 1969, the Aichi-born artist On Kawara began sending telegrams from his adopted home of New York to curators, collectors, and acquaintances across the world.

On the occasion of David Zwirner’s concurrent exhibitions of On Kawara’s work in London and Paris, the gallery will hold two readings of the artist’s epic One Million Years.