ROKKO MEETS ART 2013

2014.3.23　 Text: Chiaki Ogura

An ordinary mountain has become filled with art! An attractive event is held at Mount Rokko in Hyogo. Thirty-nine artists from various genres created artworks using notable points and scenic views of Mount Rokko. You...

AKI KAURISMäKI “JUHA” × HUNTSVILLE

2014.3.23　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

For cultural exchange between Northern Europe and Japan, intercultural experience for young generation, and charity for the Japan earthquake, the opening of the Miyukino International Short Film Festival began at the ...

ICE HILLS HOTEL IN TOUBETSU 2014

2014.3.17　 Text: Ayumi Yakura

In February when Japan welcomed its coldest period, the Ice Hills Hotel opened up on a hill covered with snow in Hokkaido. The hotel has been surprising visitors from all over the world with its elements, including a ...

ANDREAS GURSKY EXHIBITION

2014.3.17　 Text: Maaru Hiyama

Andreas Gursky is a major exponent of German contemporary photography whose photographs are striking for their massive scale and size. His work is notable for revealing the inner workings of contemporary society and t...

“FRUITS DE LA PASSION” LA COLLECTION DU CENTRE POMPIDOU

2014.3.17　 Text: Maaru Hiyama

The Pompidou Centre is a multicultural complex in France, which houses a museum, a center for music and acoustic research and a library. Paris, the city of art, offers broad and generous support regarding art, as is e...

MAISON & OBJET ASIA

2014.3.17　 Text: Fann ZJ

Europe meets Asia at the first Asian installation of the world famous décoration and home-fashion trade show MAISON & OBJET. Entitled MAISON & OBJET ASIA, the Singaporean cousin is smaller and compact but no less rich...

YOUR PORTRAIT: A TETSUMI KUDO RETROSPECTIVE

2014.3.5　 Text: Valerie Douniaux

The National Museum of Art, Osaka presented an important retrospective of a major local artist, Tetsumi Kudo (1935-1990), revealing a true visionary, who predicted the harmful effects of nuclear power and the alienati...

SINGAPORE ART WEEK 2014

2014.2.28　 Text: Fann ZJ

As modernised and westernised a host Singapore is, one often forgets the richness of its context, the beauty of its surroundings, its neighbours and its own Asianness. Singapore Art Week (January 13th - 19th, 2014) br...

ART UP! 2014

2014.2.25　 Text: Valerie Douniaux

For its 7th edition, Lille’s contemporary art fair has traded its name from simple “Lille Art Fair” to “Art Up!”, a way for the organizers to clearly signal their wish to bring change and more energy to the event. The...

TATSUNO ART PROJECT 2013 ARTS AND MEMORIES

2014.2.24　 Text: Chiaki Ogura

The Tatsuno Art Project held for the third time in 2013. The venue chosen is the “Castle Town Museum,” an area that still falls under the shadow of an Edo castle town. Tatsuno City, also known as the “Small Kyoto of ...

HILMA AF KLINT: A PIONEER OF ABSTRACTION

2014.1.16　 Text: Kiyohide Hayashi

An exhibition was held at Berlin’s Hamburger Banhof Museum of Contemporary Art focusing on the Swedish female painter Hilma af Klint. The exhibition, which showed major works including paintings by af Klint, was a ret...

CREATIVE HOKKAIDO MEETS TAIPEI

2014.1.6　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

"Creativity" - a dispatch from Hokkaido to Asia Photo: Takumi Yamamoto "Creative Hokkaido meets Taipei" was an event promoted by "Creative Hokkaido" - a project which aims to introduce the creative spirit of H...