NEWS
ESPERANTO
Esperanto, magazine made to bring together leading intellectuals and creators to communicate the world's contemporary culture of the 21st century, will be published quarterly on December 15. The concept of the ma...
International online magazine features creative culture
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DESIGNART TOKYO 2020
- CHIKA SHIRAKAWA
- KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020
- TIMELESS CONVERSATIONS 2020: VOICES FROM JAPANESE ART OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
- OLAFUR ELIASSON “SOMETIMES THE RIVER IS THE BRIDGE”
- TAKASHI HINODA “HANDS AND VISIONAMUSEMENT”
- PIERRE SOULAGES EXHIBITION
- UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING
- SWISS DESIGN / MADE IN JAPAN
- HASSAN HAJJAJ RETROSPECTIVE “MAISON MAROCAINE”
- WE DON’T KNOW GOD: CHIM↑POM 2005-2019
- MARI KATAYAMA “GIFT”
- CHIKA SHIRAKAWA
NEWS
JAPAN PHOTO AWARD 2021 CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Japan Photo Award, a photography award established to promote new Japanese talents to the world, is now accepting applications. Deadline for submissions will be on 17th February. ...
HAPPENING
UNKNOWN ASIA 2020
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, one of Asia’s largest artist art fairs, “Unknown Asia,” was held online on 12th and 13th December. This year is the 6th edition of the fair, featuring 135 creators from 11...
HAPPENING
PLAY WITH THE EARTH IN ZUSHI 2020
Modern people tend to forget this universal truth; the feeling that the earth is home, and that everyone is part of nature. The performance, “Play with the Earth” at Zushi Bunka Plaza Hall on October 10th, instinctive...
HAPPENING
DESIGNART TOKYO 2020
NEWS
LAID BUG GIFT SHOP
Art director/designer Toshifumi Kiuchi's gallery & store, LAID BUG, will hold a limited-time event “LAID BUG GIFT SHOP” at Daikanyama Tsutaya Books from December 4th to 27th. ...
NEWS
DAVID SHRIGLEY “CLARITY: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT”
A solo show by David Shrigley, “CLARITY: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT” will be held at Yumiko Chiba Associates (YCA) from November 28, 2020 to January 30, 2021. ...
PEOPLE
CHIKA SHIRAKAWA
Chika Shirakawa, who was born in Oita and now living in Fukuoka, drew attention when she exhibited last year for the first time at Unknown Asia 2019, an international art fair that attracted more than 13,000 visitors ...
PEOPLE
OM-SE
Swedish prime skincare brand OM-SE is a sophisticated and fresh approach to the industry. Inspired by the FODMAP methodology, which is a mode of action in symptom induction. Furthermore, transparency is the main conce...
HAPPENING
JOHN BALDESSARI EXHIBITION
What is art? That is what American artist John Baldessari (1931–2020) started to wonder about during the 1960’s at his hometown National City outside San Diego, in California. His mindset of re-examining what art can ...
HAPPENING
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020
“VISION” was this year’s theme for the annual international photography festival, KYOTOGRAPHIE. Now in its eighth consecutive year, the festival was held on its rescheduled dates from September 19th through October 18...
PEOPLE
YOURHIGHNESS
Released on June 12 2020, Selected Electroacoustic Works 2002 - 2020, Swedish composer Yourhighness aka Johannes Wikström wanted to compile a large amount of his best music composed over nearly two decades. These rec...
HAPPENING
TIMELESS CONVERSATIONS 2020: VOICES FROM JAPANESE ART OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
How often does an exhibit ask the audience to make connections from past works of art to now? Although many in the art field take this relationship for granted, we often forget to ask the viewers to consider its relat...
HAPPENING
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO “POST VITAM”
The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, which became Japan's second public art museum when it opened in 1933, welcomed a new beginning in the spring of 2020 when it underwent extensive renovations and was renamed the Kyoto...
HAPPENING
OLAFUR ELIASSON “SOMETIMES THE RIVER IS THE BRIDGE”
Both a wonderfully curious and interactive experience, Olafur Eliasson’s solo exhibit “Sometimes the river is the bridge”, is his first visit exhibit in Japan in ten years. Held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toky...
THINGS
AT ETERNITY’S GATE
Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most acclaimed painters from the 19th century, is loved around the world for his bright colors and powerful brushstrokes. We all may know his representative works, there have been a few oc...
THINGS
YOSHITOMO NARA
A collective book of Yoshitomo Nara has been published from Phaidon Press in the UK. This book retrospectively explores his life and career with commentary by art historian Yeewan Koon and featuring texts by Nara hims...
