The Exhibition of the Francois Pinault Collection was held in France where it seemed that everyone have a slight disdain for the man. Francois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman and owns the PPR Group, which...
Recently a new film festival was held in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka and other cultural activities by Shizuoka creators have stood out. This time I visited Shizuoka Contents Valley Festival 2008 (SCVF) which showed movin...
The five meter high walls at Heliumcowboy Artspace are studded with various artwork. Paperwork next to canvases, small images next to large ones. Some are dark, some blaze with fluorescent colour. Right after entering...
Take a walk in downtown Manhattan, and you will quickly see signs of construction everywhere: scaffolds, barriers, cables, and signs make these streets look like an obstacle course. In fact, there are so many of these...
At the end of January in Berlin, which was warmer than usual, Transmediale 08 was held. Transmediale is an art festival to take a view of the present scene of media art and held in Berlin every year. This year, Haus d...
A hotel room turns into a permanent gallery space! The Chelsea hotel in New York is known for the art fairs it hosts, and Agnes Hotel Art Fair 2008 is leading the scene in Tokyo. At Agnes Hotel and Apartments T...
There is a new and innovative platform for Asia's emergent creatives - Tiger Translate, an ongoing series of events showcasing individuals who double-time as creative forces in their home countries. Taking the locals-...
What does Article 9 mean to you? "Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9," gives new energy to the most contentious clause in Japan's constitution. The exhibition derives it...
If before you needed 3 days to visit the Bread & Butter to be able to watch the whole Fair and get a little a clue of what is going on in Urban Fashion, now you will need to run because B&B is increasing the s...
Design freaks like myself gathered at the opening of the fourth Blickfang, an international furniture fair in the Vienna MAK, in October. Food-Bowl by Pulpo Blickfang is a progressive platform for young intern...
The winning works of still images, animations, interactive art installations and games were selected for the 13th Student Computer Graphics Contest, showcasing high level of creative CG works from in and out of Japan....
During 2007 summer, Berlin's Haus am Waldsee museum was entirely dedicated to Henry Moore's work. The selection for this exhibition took as a starting point the late 1950s, when Moore first fragmented the human figure...
