DESIGNART TOKYO 2024, a well-established fall festival in Tokyo, celebrated its 8th anniversary from October 18th to 27th this year. About 117 exhibitions in 96 venues ushered in approximately 230,000 visitors to expe...

COMMEMORATIVE REOPENING EXHIBITION: ABSENCES – TOULOUSE-LAUTREC & SOPHIE CALLE

2024.12.9　 Text: Alma Reyes

After over a year of closing for refurbishments, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum finally reopened last November 23rd with “Commemorative Reopening Exhibition: Absences - Toulouse-Lautrec & Sophie Calle” running until Janu...

ALEC SOTH: A ROOM OF ROOMS

2024.12.4　 Text: Alma Reyes

A full member of the international photography collective Magnum Photos, American photographer Alec Soth has been widely acclaimed for his narrative, storytelling approach in photography. A large scope of his photogra...

TERENCE CONRAN: MAKING MODERN BRITAIN

2024.11.1　 Text: Alma Reyes

British modern design has come a long way since the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1900s. From William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, to Mary Quant and Norman Foster, Britain has been at the forefront of design i...

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: I HAVE BEEN TO HELL AND BACK. AND LET ME TELL YOU, IT WAS WONDERFUL

2024.10.15　 Text: Alma Reyes

Those who have been to Roppongi Hills have surely walked under or around the giant bronze and stainless steel spider sculpture at the open plaza. The creator, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois dedicated the rema...

KEIICHI TANAAMI: ADVENTURES IN MEMORY

2024.9.9　 Text: Alma Reyes

Like chromatic vignettes of a carnival or a thronged festival, no other form of art could possibly be as explosive and expansively imaginative as that of the enigmatic Keiichi Tanaami. Having lived through the colossa...

PAUL MCCARTNEY PHOTOGRAPHS 1963-64 EYES OF THE STORM

2024.8.22　 Text: Alma Reyes

The world knows him as one of the star-studded icons of The Beatles. But, did we ever imagine Paul McCartney to be a talented photographer as well? Until September 24 this year, Tokyo City View atop Roppongi Hills ...

TAKADA KENZO: CHASING DREAMS

2024.8.9　 Text: Alma Reyes

The iconic names of Hanae Mori, Issey Miyake, Kansai Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Junko Koshino and other prominent Japanese designers have carved their marks of excellence in the history of global fashion....

MARK LECKEY: FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE FEAT. BIG RED SOUNDSYSTEM

2024.7.27　 Text: Victor Moreno

In 2008, Mark Leckey won the Turner Prize for his video art film “Industrial Light and Magic,” which led to his work being exhibited at Tate Modern and internationally at institutions such as MoMA and the Guggenheim M...

MUSUBI – HALF-CENTURY OF CARTIER IN JAPAN AND BEYOND: AN EVERLASTING DIALOGUE OF BEAUTY AND ART

2024.7.23　 Text: Victor Moreno

The renowned French Maison is celebrating 50 years of exceptional jewelry design and cultural influence in Japan. The event, “MUSUBI - Half-Century of Cartier in Japan and Beyond: an Everlasting Dialogue of Beauty and...

MIRANDA JULY: F.A.M.I.L.Y.

2024.7.20　 Text: Victor Moreno

Polymath American artist Miranda July spent twenty-five years digitizing and editing her performance work, which serves as the source material for six videos in “F.A.M.I.L.Y.”. This exhibition organized with the suppo...

CALDER: UN EFFET DU JAPONAIS

2024.7.2　 Text: Alma Reyes

His bright metal, stone, wood and clay sculptures and colorful mobiles are unmistakably recognizable around the world. They have graced venues, such as Place Vendôme in Paris, Federal Plaza in Chicago, Parc Jean-Drape...