NEWS
DESIGNART TOKYO 2019
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...
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WE DON’T KNOW GOD: CHIM↑POM 2005-2019
- KYOTOGRAPHIE 2019
- MARI KATAYAMA “GIFT”
- MUM & GYPSY × TRIPPEN “BOOTS”
- DESIGNART TOKYO 2018
- SOUND OF STOCKHOLM 2018
- DAVID SHRIGLEY
- YOICHI OCHIAI “BEAUTY OF NATURAL RESOLUTION ∽ END TO END, TRANSFORMATION OF MATERIAL THINGS ∽ DIGITAL NATURE”
- SAE HONDA
- MIRCEA CANTOR “ADJECTIVE TO YOUR PRESENCE”
- LIU BOLIN
- NINE JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME
- KYOTOGRAPHIE 2019
NEWS
UNKNOWN ASIA 2019
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...
THINGS
VICTOR MORENO “PORTRAITS 2008 – 2018”
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
WE DON’T KNOW GOD: CHIM↑POM 2005-2019
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
201˚ “ONIT”
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
PABLO DI MARCO
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
ART BASEL 2019
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 IN BERLIN 2019
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
JAPANESE-POLISH CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION “CELEBRATION”
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
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
MASAHIRO SUZUKI
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
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2019
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...
NEWS
A’ DESIGN AWARDS 2018 – 2019 WINNERS ANNOUNCED
International A’ Design Award & Competition announces the best designs of 2018 - 2019 in all design disciplines on April 15. A’ Design Award & Competition, the World’s largest and most diffused international de...
HAPPENING
58TH VENICE BIENNALE
The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) titled “May you live in interesting times” will open the doors from 11th May to 24th November 2019. The curator invited by the president of the inte...
THINGS
MARI KATAYAMA “GIFT”
My sight was seized by the contrast of the flamboyant red nails and the skin tone floating on the solid black background. Veins and muscles are vividly representing a “life”. This book is, of course, a collection of w...
PLACE
VOLT
Scandinavian fine dining has been in the spotlight during the last decade. Particularly in Sweden, a rather interesting batch of young chefs have made Swedish dishes – or the Scandinavian cuisine concept – more popula...
HAPPENING
MUM & GYPSY × TRIPPEN “BOOTS”
Takahida Fujita’s repertory theatre, MUM & GYPSY, performed their latest production “BOOTS” at LUMINE 0 (Luminezero) in Shinjuku, Tokyo from 21 to 29 December 2018. Being both playwright and director, Takahiro Fuji...
