Shusaku Arakawa Shusaku Arakawa Shusaku Arakawa, who spoke of himself as an "eternal outsider" and "abstractionist of the distant future," first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo's Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa's early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport and with whom he eventually
Japanese gunboat Sumida (1939) Japanese gunboat Sumida (1939) "Sumida" was the second of two vessels in the river gunboats authorized under the 3rd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme of 1937. "Sumida" had a hull with an overall length of and width of , with a normal displacement of 338 tons and draft of . She was propelled by two Kampon steam turbine engines with two boilers driving two shafts, producing and had a top speed of 17 knots. The ship was armed with one /28 cal. gun and one 25mm machine gun. " Sumida" was laid down on 13 April 1939 and launched 30 October