MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2017

2017.6.20　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

One of the largest international furniture fair in the world that holds in the city of Milan every April – which we used to call “Milano Salone” – has been now marked as “Milan Design Week” on the world’s design calen...

REICHI HAYASHIDA POP ART EXHIBITION

2017.6.3　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

Originally born in Manchuria, 83 year old contemporary artist Reichi Hayashida is now in the limelight. As a young boy he experienced a colonial period in Japanese history which affected a number of Asian countries, a...

KARTELL AND MAORI ART BY GEORGE NUKU: THE NEW DESIGN FUSION

2017.5.30　 Text: Stephanie Bui

As one of Paris’s main design hub, the 17th edition of the Festival of Design D’Days returned to the capital, in May, with a program that encompassed everything from exhibitions to free events attracting 14 600 visito...

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2017

2017.5.30　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

KYOTOGRAPHIE is an international photography festival held annually in Kyoto, giving artists an opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience. This year KYOTOGRAPHIE had 16 exhibitions held around the city. T...

TARO IZUMI EXHIBITION “NIGHT LIE”

2017.5.23　 Text: Chieko Nakagawa

What is “Reality”? Taro Izumi explained why he chose “night lie” as the title of his exhibition. “It was last December in Paris, while I was on the banks of the Seine in the middle of the night, that I realized tha...

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2017

2017.5.21　 Text: Victor Moreno

This year’s winner World Press Photo of the Year for 2017 portraying the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov by off-duty Turkish police officer, Mevlut Mert Altintas - taken while Karlov was speaking at ...

RIE KAWAKAMI “TRACE”

2017.5.13　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

A new project “Store Installation”, started on the first floor of the “MUSEUM” which is a cultural complex to promote the current creative scene in Hokkaido. For the first memorable work is “Trace” by Rie Kawakami, wh...

CARSTEN NICOLAI “PARALLAX”

2017.4.12　 Text: Aya Ono

At Ichihara Lakeside Museum in Chiba, Japan, the “Carsten Nicolai: Parallax” has been held from March 18th. This is the largest exhibition in Japan after about a 15-years interval and exhibits 6 projects including wor...

LOCK ROUTE

2017.4.9　 Text: Editor

Gillman Barracks' public art showcase, LOCK ROUTE, opens from 13th January 2017. Curated by Khairuddin Hori, LOCK ROUTE takes inspiration from Gillman Barracks’ address and the 24km long route march common in the trai...

OUTERSIDE 2

2017.3.29　 Text: Yoshiko Kurata

“OUTERSIDE,” which had an exhibition December before last, came back to the CALM & PUNK GALLERY by Gas As Interface last December with a new member. Since there’s a relationship of mutual trust between Kenichiro Mizun...

DUBAI ART WEEK 2017

2017.3.23　 Text: Mamiko Kawakami

It is the largest annual art festival in the Middle East; held over five days, across four major cities and two countries. The tenth edition of Dubai Art Week took place between 12th to 19th March 2017, in Dubai, Abu ...

GAVIN TURK “WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE HOW & WHY”

2017.3.22　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Newport Street Gallery is the culmination of Damien Hirst’s dream to have a permanent space in order to display his collection of art as well as hold exhibitions. It is one of the more exciting galleries to have opene...