TANABATARIUM

2017.9.2　 Text: Miwonderful

Emotions are amplified and everyone’s wishes are beautifully etched in our hearts. An interactive creative company Bascule Inc. and Nippon TV have teamed up to completely update the long-standing Japanese tradi...

YASUHARU FUJIYA EXHIBITION “DRAWING TRIBE: MODERN KABUKI FELLOWS”

2017.8.31　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

In the near future where the virtual reality is mixed with real space like digital images floating in the air, ”Confronting Fiction” is a new task for the humans of today. However, Japanese people having a spiritual c...

HUGO ARCIER #SOFTLOVE

2017.8.18　 Text: Nihal Qutub

Re-imagining a literary depiction on human-AI dependence. It’s nothing new for Hugo Arcier to deliver art that combines chimerical motion imagery with elements of cutting edge technology. One might even say it’s b...

ART BASEL 2017

2017.8.13　 Text: Toru Wada

The city of Basel has the largest number of museums in Switzerland and is where Art Basel is held around June every year. During the week of this event the normally local ambience Basel becomes international. English ...

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...