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...
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...
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...
HAPPENING
Launching in Montreal, MUTEK.JP 2018 (MUTEK.JP), an event with digital art and electronic music making full use of state-of-the-art technology, was held from November 1st to 4th. MUTEK started in Montreal, Canada in ...
HAPPENING
Summer is here. In the middle of June 2018, Basel in Switzerland gets covered with art. The word, "Art Basel" floats in a big way in every scene of the city, like on the newspapers, leaflets, billboards, and adver...
HAPPENING
The design trade fair "Maison & Objet," also called as Paris Collection for interior, showing the trends in the world's interior & design was held in Paris from January 19th to 23rd, 2018. The site was overflowing wit...
PLACE
Yves Saint Laurent, who has been featured in many movies over the past few years and became a remarkable person in the film industry, is the king of the mode style fashion of France. A museum dedicated to him open...
HAPPENING
Some say that 2017 is an art year occurs once in 10 years because the following three big art events all happen this year: Venice Biennale that happens once every two years, Documenta which gathers attention for holdi...
PEOPLE
Yumi Fuzuki, a poet born in Heisei period, started to submit her poems to magazines during her middle school era and received Gendaishi Techo award when she was sixteen years old. She was the youngest winner to receiv...
HAPPENING
“Passage, a small street or shopping streets with a roof that connecting big streets, has been often seen in Paris. Especially in Paris, passage means meaningful to those artists avant-garde for “Flâneur” who wander a...
HAPPENING
The Tatsuno Art Project held for the third time in 2013. The venue chosen is the “Castle Town Museum,” an area that still falls under the shadow of an Edo castle town. Tatsuno City, also known as the “Small Kyoto of ...
PEOPLE
There might not be that many people who have taken time to consider the many bubbles around us, such as those that we played with in the bathtubs of our childhood, those in a fluffy meringue, or those in beer. At the ...
HAPPENING
There is nothing more than the Berlin Royal Palace to symbolize present day Berlin. The angry waves of time have monkeyed around with The Royal Palace, which was present during many events in Berlin, and was then lost...
HAPPENING
The Doujima River Biennale 2013 is here and is just as memorable as years past. Twenty eight artists from all over the world have submitted art to this exhibit. There are a total of thirty nine pieces of contemporary ...
PEOPLE
“Extreme AR Image Core” The “Extreme AR Image Core” exhibit is currently being held at Diesel Art Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo by up and coming artist Kazuki Umezawa. He has been creating many unexpected new works...
HAPPENING
DIESEL ART GALLERY , located in the underground floor of DIESEL SHIBUYA on Meiji street in Shibuya, is the first large concept store in the world to invite artists from various genres to hold quarterly art exhibits. S...
PEOPLE
A fairy tale-like documentary movie called “Herb and Dorothy” came out in 2008 that followed a real art collecting couple, Mr. and Mrs. Vogel. Postal clerk, Herb, and librarian, Dorothy, had been purchasing art over t...
