The festival "DESIGNART TOKYO 2023," a well-established fall event in Tokyo, that allowed people to experience art and design in the city, was held from October 20th to 29th. As the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic ha...

OUR ECOLOGY: TOWARD A PLANETARY LIVING

2023.11.15　 Text: Alma Reyes

Over the years, the subject of environmental protection and climate change has been a perennially sensitive and controversial issue in the platforms of education, economy, science, government and politics. Our earth's...

YVES SAINT LAURENT, ACROSS THE STYLE

2023.10.16　 Text: Alma Reyes

The legendary Christian Dior once professed about his successor Yves Saint Laurent, “Saint Laurent is the only one worthy to carry on after me.” Such was the fateful encounter between the two world-class fashion desig...

JOSEF ALBERS: PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

2023.9.20　 Text: Alma Reyes

The Bauhaus school, founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919, was one of the most influential educational foundations of modern design, architecture, and arts and crafts. Highly esteemed designer...

DAVID HOCKNEY EXHIBITION

2023.9.4　 Text: Alma Reyes

“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.” - David Hockney Greatly admired for his acute insight into the experience of “seeing” pictorial scenes, David Hockney is ...

SAUL LEITER: ORIGINS IN COLOR

2023.7.24　 Text: Alma Reyes

The enigmatic photographer Saul Leiter once remarked, “It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it.” This quote sufficiently summarizes the versatile artist’s life both as a photographer and p...

POETIC LIGHT IN THE PRINTS OF MARC CHAGALL

2023.7.10　 Text: Alma Reyes

Painter of love and poetry, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was one of the most beloved and important figurative artists of the European modernism era. While largely adored for his colorful and dreamlike paintings, Chagall a...

GAUDí AND THE SAGRADA FAMíLIA

2023.6.27　 Text: Alma Reyes

One of the most visited historical landmarks in the world, La Sagrada Família (formerly known as Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família) has always marveled architects, artists, historians and visitors for ...

ACCIDENTALLY WES ANDERSON EXHIBITION IN TOKYO

2023.5.18　 Text: Alma Reyes

Many fans of the inventive filmmaker Wes Anderson will be delighted to step into the move-like photographic exhibition inspired by the director’s craftsmanship, “Accidentally Wes Anderson,” ongoing at the Warehouse Te...

“THE ORIGINAL” EXHIBITION

2023.4.4　 Text: Alma Reyes

Every day we live with objects, furniture, accessories and furnishings that comfort and inspire us, and at the same time influence our lifestyle and mode of thought and behavior. These objects are shaped by Design, w...

EGON SCHIELE FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM – YOUNG GENIUS IN VIENNA 1900

2023.3.1　 Text: Alma Reyes

There is a throng of short-lived artists who have left us legacies of astounding artworks - from the classic Raphael, Early Modern Vincent van Gogh and Amedeo Modigliani, to the 20th century Keith Haring, among many o...

ROPPONGI CROSSING 2022: COMING & GOING

2023.2.2　 Text: Alma Reyes

For the last three years since the disruption of everyday human activity caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, lives around the globe have been transformed drastically, whether in positive or negative ways. The...

SHINRO OHTAKE: FROM SCRATCH TO DREAMS AND MEMORIES

2023.1.12　 Text: Alma Reyes

Considered as one of Japan’s most versatile contemporary artists, Shinro Ohtake has always kept viewers with mouths agape over his dynamic play of materials, colors, forms and techniques. He is an incessant object col...

DESIGNART TOKYO 2022

2022.12.20　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

The festival "DESIGNART TOKYO 2022," where people can experience art and design in the city of Tokyo, was held from October 21st to 30th. This event has become a well-established fall event in Tokyo. As the effects of...

KUMA EXHIBITION 2022

2022.5.9　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

The KUMA Exhibition 2022 showcased future creativity that transcends the boundaries of contemporary art, technology, architecture, music, film, fiction, and entertainment. It is the highlight of the 71 students of the...

DESIGNART TOKYO 2021

2021.12.3　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

DESIGNART TOKYO 2021, a festival of design and art in the city of Tokyo that has become a well-known Autumn event in Tokyo, was held from October 22nd to 31st. In the Autumn of 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic is grad...

HALF CENTURY SINCE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG: SHAPING THE FUTURE WITH TECHNOLOGY

2021.9.12　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

The New Context Conference 2021 was held at Digital Garage on August 11th under the theme of "Earthshot: Half Century Since Whole Earth Catalog: Shaping the Future with Technology". This event was launched in 2005 wit...