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UNKNOWN ASIA 2022
Unknown Asia, Asia's largest art fair for artists, was held at the Grand Front Osaka Congress Convention Center on October 15th and 16th, 2022. This year was the 8th edition of the event and it happened for 3 days inc...
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MAKOTO AMANO
Makoto Amano, from the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), has published many media artworks that take advantage of the latest technology under the theme of "resistance to AI implemented in society....
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UNKNOWN ASIA 2021
Asia's largest artist art fair UNKNOWN ASIA was held at the Grand Front Osaka Congre Convention Center on October 16th and 17th. This time, which is the 7th time this year, it was a hybrid of the online and the in-per...
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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...
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NUFONIA MUST FALL
Kid Koala, a world famous DJ and music producer/composer, and an art director K.K. Barret known for having worked on numerous films and has been nominated with the film “Her”, held a multimedia puppet show called Nufo...
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MANAKAA PROJECT
Today, the word “sustainable” is spreading throughout the world via social media in the fashion industry where every customer is the key. “Sustainable” translates literally to “able to be maintained or continued”, and...
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MASASHI HIRAO
Masashi Hirao, a heretical Bonsai master, who continues to create Bonsai that overturns common sense while carrying improvised performances, gains appreciation from both Japan and overseas. While inheriting Japanese ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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MUTEK.JP 2018
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 ...
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ART BASEL 2018
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...
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MAISON & OBJET PARIS 2018
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...
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MUSéE YVES SAINT LAURENT
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...
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SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MüNSTER 2017
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...
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YUMI FUZUKI
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...
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MICHEL BLAZY “LIVING ROOM II”
“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...
