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United Nude opens exhibition + Pop-Up shop at Galeries Lafayette

United Nude is honored to open an exhibition and Pop-Up store at the exclusive Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette. Boasting the biggest shoe department in France, Galeries Lafayette is known for its high class collections and uncompromising sense of style and luxury.

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Little Fukushima

Last year following the tsunami that occurred in Japan, the creation of the fund-raising art event Help! (exhibition and sales of drawings made by artists living in France and Japan) generated 52,000 euros in proceeds for the victims.

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15th Japan Media Arts Festival

The 15th Japan Media Arts Festival have started on February 22nd Wednesday. Focusing on the Award-winning Works and Jury Selections of Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga, this exhibition draws global attention to the outstanding media art works. This year, in addition to the exhibition at the main venue of The National Art Center showcasing about 150 works, a number of exciting events are held at 4 other satellite venues such as Midtown d-labo, Mercedes-Benz Connection, Nicofarre, and Toho Cinema Roppongi Hills. Please check out the website for more details!

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Sarah Haven “Just Because I’m a Girl”

As a tie-in to the 46th Annual NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), PUNCH Gallery proudly exhibits the new ceramic work of member artist Sarah Haven in her second solo exhibition at PUNCH. In this ceramic installation, Haven continues her investigation of female gender identity using architectural forms as her metaphorical vehicle. For Haven, being a woman in our day and age is a complicated proposition.

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Matthew Hoffman “I Made This For You”

Public Works Gallery present the exhibition “I Made This For You”. It is the most intimate of artistic utterances. Through repetition of form, Hoffman transforms exuberant designs and quirky colloquialisms into moments of meditation. His handcut wood messages are shiny, digestible, often sweet. One imagines Hoffman’s workshop piled with wood scraps that form a tide break against the world’s rolling waves of negativity.

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