SINGAPASAR 2016

2016.8.17　 Text: Fann ZJ

Singapore’s National Day came early this year. Held on 9th August, this will be Singapore’s 51th year of independence. It was thus befitting that the National Design Centre (NDC) was decked out in red and white stripe...

PRIMAVERA SOUND 2016

2016.7.14　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

This year edition of Primavera Festival will remain in our memory because of many facts: one of them is the real diversity of the music line up, and I can say this after attending the festival for the last 12 years an...

THE POWERFUL WOMEN SPACES EXHIBITION

2016.6.29　 Text: Eva Inman

A Room of Her Own: Powerful Women Spaces by Womany for the World Design Capital Taipei 2016 Womany, the world’s first Chinese-language feminist website, curated an exhibition as part of the World Design Capital Tai...

AOI YAMAGUCHI EXHIBITION “IN-EI: THE RESONANCE OF SHADOWS”

2016.5.27　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

Calligrapher / Artist working in California, Aoi Yamaguchi had a solo exhibition “In-Ei: The Resonance of Shadows” at Cross Hotel Sapporo in Hokkaido, her hometown, till April 30th. She firstly meditates before facing...

ART GIVEN OUT: ARTISTS FIGHTING THEIR WAYS INTO SOCIETY. HOW TO PROCEED ART

2016.5.24　 Text: Yoko Akiyoshi

On January 16th 2016, a talk event titled “Art given Out: Artists fighting their ways into society. How to proceed Art” was held at Aoyama Book Center in Tokyo. The event featured two artists who have been creating wo...

SUPERMARKET 2016

2016.5.9　 Text: Victor Moreno

Stockholm Independent Art Fair "Supermarket 2016" celebrates its 10th anniversary. It is quite gratifying to see how the fair has grown during these years. Since 2015 Supermarket takes place in a larger venue at “Svar...

YUKINORI YAMAMURA “ASHIYA CALISTHENICS NO.2”

2016.5.6　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

"Ashiya Calisthenics No.2" is solo exhibition by artist Yukinori Yamamura. His work explores meanings behind locations around the world and the connection between scenery and people. For this exhibition, he dresses up...

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE “PERIPHERAL THINKING”

2016.4.28　 Text: Shuhei Ohata

The art exhibition “Peripheral Thinking” at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, introduces representative works by William Kentridge from the 1990s when his name started to be known in the world...

TOKYO ART MEETING Ⅵ “TOKYO”

2016.3.31　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo recently held a show called “Tokyo Art Meeting Ⅵ "TOKYO" －Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis”, from November 2015 through February 14th 2016. As the title of this show ...

THE LONG STORY OF THE CONTACTS OF “THE OTHER SIDE”

2016.2.26　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

"The Long Story of the Contacts of 'the Other Side'" by a Berlin-based photographer born in Israel Yishay Garbasz focuses on suffering and trauma in areas of conflict. These were of photographs taken from three separa...

ART FAIR SAPPORO 2015

2016.2.25　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

"Art Fair Sapporo 2015", where all gallerists meet and sell hand-picked contemporary art work, took place on November 22nd and 23rd at Cross Hotel Sapporo. 2015 marked the third anniversary, and this time the event we...

ECCE HOMO: THE HUMAN IMAGES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

2016.2.12　 Text: Alex Hiroki Coles

The "Ecce Homo: The Human Images in Contemporary Art" exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka explores how the human body is portrayed and used in contemporary art. It focuses on many different themes througho...