PORTLAND FASHION WEEK 2007

2007.11.17　 Text: Lisa Radon

Portland Fashion Week had its share of showstopping moments: Emily Ryan’s architectural honeycomb dress, IDOM’s black trapeze cocktail dress with an open back cut down well below the waist, Kate Towers’ cascading floo...

52ND VENICE BIENNALE

2007.11.16　 Text: Kana Sunayama

Inviting Robert Storr as a director, the first American art critic, the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 was held with the title “Think with the Senses. Feel with the Mind. Art in the present tense.” Sigmar Polke © L...

FIAC 2007

2007.11.14　 Text: Kana Sunayama

For contemporary Paris art scene, autumn is not about eating, reading, or arts, but it's about buy and sell arts. Because autumn is the season of FIAC! FIAC used to be held under tents along quai Branly for 12 year...

CORPORA IN SI(GH)TE

2007.11.8　 Text: Yuko Matomo

Virtual architecture grows in accord with the environment. Above is a copy of Corpora in Si(gh)te. Who can imagine what I'm talking about if they only see this copy? I know I couldn't. © doubleNegatives Ar...

DUAL CITY SESSIONS: TOKYO AND SINGAPORE

2007.11.8　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

Dual City Sessions is a collaborative exhibit which encompasses 28 artists, 14 from Tokyo and 14 Singapore, and was held at the Giuliano Fujiwara boutique on October 30th until November 4th, 2007. The exhibit will tr...

ZOO ART FAIR 2007

2007.11.7　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

How would you like to experience an art fair where, along with the exhibition, you have elephants and giraffes in your peripheral vision? Did anybody go to London Zoo Art Fair last year for exactly that? Who knew the...

YAMAGATA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2007

2007.11.6　 Text: Naoto Ogawa

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival which is known widely all over the world is the only international documentary movie festival in Japan. This one week, Yamagata prefecture which could be just one of th...

DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2007

2007.11.1　

DOTMOV is a digital film festival organized by an online magazine "SHIFT", aiming to discover unknown talented creators and provide an opportunity to show their works. We had a total of 297 works from 34 countries thi...

LISBON INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2007

2007.10.30　 Text: Naoto Ogawa

The Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival, Doclisboa, is now in its 5th year. This documentary festival’s reputation is raising throughout Europe. The main venue, ‘CultureGuest’, is located inside a huge b...

UNDERGROUND: ADVENTURE IN THE DARKNESS CREATED BY IMAGINATION AND SCIENCE

2007.10.22　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Adventure in the darkness created by Imagination and Science. "Underground" - a photo book by Hideaki Uchiyama has been getting attention as a remarkable way to tell the attraction of underground. Have we ever ...

NY-TOKYO MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007

2007.10.22　 Text: Yukino Kotake

On the very day of event, I was worried about a number of visitors because of the rain from the morning in open-air venue and also I had to write a report on this. This is well know oasis for New Yorker, the middle o...

ART PARADE 2007

2007.10.17　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

I write this article knowing this event from inside, cause I was invited to participate in this years edition. First of all I would like to say that its a brilliant idea to take art outside the exhibitions space and b...