HAPPENING
Located in the heart of Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, famous for the Kurobe Gorge and Kurobe Dam, Kurobe City Museum of Art is showing an intriguing exhibition of animal-metamorphosed humans by Toyama artist-performer Sa...
PEOPLE
Thea Gustafsson, known as Becky and the Birds, recently released her debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now via the celebrated British label 4AD. This milestone marks a shift into an era of creative freedom for the S...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
Located where the river Thames bends north to east, before it reaches Shakesperare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Borough Market, stands the impressive, brutalist architectural complex designed by Norman Engelback back in t...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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...
HAPPENING
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 ...
HAPPENING
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....
HAPPENING
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...
