NEWS
The A’ Design Awards is the worlds' biggest, most prestigious and most comprehensive design award provided to outstanding designs and designers. This Awards and Competition is for designers, innovators and compani...
NEWS
Following last year which had approximately 120,000 visitors, The Art & Design Festival “DESIGNART TOKYO 2019” will be held from October 18th to 27th, 2019. In addition to the Harajuku, Omotesando and Aoyama areas...
NEWS
A unique international art fair from Osaka "UNKNOWN ASIA" will be held this year. UNKNOWN ASIA, the 5th year of this year, will transfer the venue to the Grand Front Osaka, where about 300 creators from domestic a...
HAPPENING
With the title “May You Live in Interesting Times”, the curator of the 58th Venice Biennale brought the reflection on contemporary issues, technological upheaval (the role of the machine, artificial intelligence, and ...
HAPPENING
A pixel is the smallest unit of an image on a computer screen. Machine learning algorithms trained on datasets from contemporary photography is developing the art photography realm while diffusing boundaries between t...
HAPPENING
In Berlin, we hear news that buildings are being demolished everywhere, and traditional live houses and club bars are closing and moving out. Today's stage is Kraftwerk Berlin, which has a strong presence on the side ...
PEOPLE
The contemporary dance he embodies is dramatic and slightly nostalgic. Yuya Fujinami is based in Berlin. He is a dancer who is drawing attention from all over Europe, including direct offers from world-famous Constan...
THINGS
Victor Moreno, a contributor for SHIFT and an art director / a photographer based in Stockholm, has released his first photo book "Victor Moreno: 2008–2018, Portraits of People I Admire." This book is an ar...
THINGS
A retrospective book of Japanese art collective Chim↑Pom, “We Don’t Know God: Chim↑Pom 2005-2019” has just been published by United Vagabonds. The moment I touched this book, I instinctively thought this was a pie...
THINGS
The Tokyo based interior and architectural design company Draft’s original brand “201˚” has released a new product named, “ONIT”. The brand is directed by an interior designer Taiju Yamashita who is a CEO of Draft. ...
PEOPLE
When I first met Pablo Di Marco I noticed something very unique about him: he looks like a teenager but his eyes are always nostalgic, even sad. As if he has lived a thousand years. Or maybe a thousand lives, like the...
HAPPENING
Stepping into the first year of the Reiwa-era, the 49th edition of Art Basel opened its gates in the balmy weather between spring and summer. The thriving art event has maintained an upper trend in its annual evol...
HAPPENING
Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2019 will be held from May 28 to June 2 for artists who live in Berlin. This time, I checked out the opening party and a contemporary dance performance on the last day. PFA, Performi...
HAPPENING
Celebration is a Japanese and Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition that is running from May 18th to June 23rd, 2019 at the following four venues across Kyoto: Kyoto Art Center, ROHM Theatre, The Terminal KYOTO and UNESC...
PEOPLE
mirukusouko + The Coconuts is an artists unit consisted of seven artists; Naotaka Miyazaki, Naoki Matsumoto, Azumi Kajiwara, Eisuke Shinozaki, Kota Sakagawa, Takuma Nishihama and Hiroaki Takiguchi. mirukusouko was for...
PEOPLE
I met Masahiro Suzuki in his studio, in the basement of a contemporary art gallery of Marseille, that he shares with other artists. As we were going down the stairs, it didn’t take long for me to understand which was ...
HAPPENING
VIBE is the theme for the 7th annual Kyotographie, an international photography festival held in historically and culturally significant buildings across the city of Kyoto from April 13th until May 12th. Kondaya...
