It is the middle of Feburary 2009, and we are at midwinter here in Sapporo. The roads are walls of piled snow and sidewalks make every look like poor skaters. To me, it is quite impressive and fantastic scenery - snow...
In spite of the snowiest days London has witnessed in last eighteen years, The design museum has been crowded with people with slightly red faces. Not only because of the cold weather. They all are so excited to see t...
Each year at the end of January Berlin gets for some days the center of the international media art scene. "Deep North" was the theme for this years Transmediale 2009 for "art and digital culture", which was held at "...
The 2008 [12th] Japan Media Arts Festival will be held from February 4th to 15th 2009 at The National Art Center, Tokyo. The question "What is Media Art?" has been asked over and over again. At the same time, the ...
I still remember clearly the exhibition of Christian Boltanski held in Marian Goodman gallery Paris in 2005. I can also recall vividly the impact of the moment when I entered the pitch-black room separated by a curtai...
So, this was the last edition of Bread & Butter in Barcelona. Starting in 2005, and after 8 Bread & Butter events in Barcelona the organizers just announced that the feria will return to Berlin. Th...
The Lunar New Year sees the celebration of Spring. Seasonal dishes that symbolize and embrace the coming of Spring adore tables. Rituals and customs to welcome the New Year and invite wealth and prosperity are practic...
It’s one of the coldest winters in recent years in New York, but staying home and hibernating has its limits. One December weekend we set out to visit some shows – better to stay warm in well-heated museums, looking a...
The streets of Brooklyn recently brought me to Los Angeles for the first time since 1991, that is, a group show called “From the Streets of Brooklyn,” curated by Bushwick’s own Ad Hoc Art gallery and hosted by Silverl...
The potential for art and design can be discovered at interface. An interactive relationship with an interface hits our five senses at full blast. Minimum information without verbal communication provokes our s...
Primavera Club, the winter edition of Primavera Sound Festival is raising up to become one of the winter essential music events. The festival was presented simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid for the first time. ...
Yoko Ono's first solo exhibition in China. It wasn't easy locating Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, but once you found it, you can't miss the giant poster of Yoko Ono which flanks its exterior. I'm not s...
