SLEEPOVER PSYCHEDELIA

2006.5.5　 Text: Kat Lo

As I was talking with Arnault Castel, the man behind Kapok, a shop-cum-gallery nestled in a quiet history-laden district of Hong Kong, an adrenaline-fuelled twentysomething lugging a large backpack, portfolio, and sle...

GO GAGA VOL.2

2006.5.5　 Text: Emanuelis Ryklys

Go Gaga stands for migrating audiovisual event series in Lithuania. It tries to organize modern visual & sound journeys in uncommon city spaces. Go Gaga is initiated and organized by Partyzanai DJs and RUT RUT col...

QUEENSDAY 2006

2006.5.5　 Text: Ania Markham

Every year the Netherlands winds itself up, ready for the last day of April. Queensday (or Koninginnedag) is not to be underestimated. A public holiday on a scale rarely seen in other countries, it's a day when the Du...

HOMELESS FOOTBALL WORLD CUP

2006.5.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

"In October 2003, while I was having a cup of coffee in a bar and reading Hecho en Buenos Aires, I found a small article about the last championship. I immediately circled it and wrote Documentary. I wanted to tell th...

TREASURES

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Up-and-coming Berlin-based artists have joined this group exhibition, curated by internationally acclaimed artists - Janet Cardiff, Rebecca Horn and Robert Wilson parallel to the Berlin Biennial. The location is a for...

PAINTING AS PRESENCE: THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The exhibition "Painting As Presence: This Is Not A Love Song" is aimed at visitors who are curious and interested – parallel to the Berlin Biennial – in getting to know positions of painting with very different refer...

HOTEL WONDER

2006.5.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Hotel Wonder is La Perla's outstanding contribution to the apparently endless number of collateral shows and celebrations organized in parallel with the Milan Furniture Fair 2006 in via Tortona, an area in the south o...

THE 4TH BERLIN BIENNALE

2006.5.1　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The 4th Berlin Biennale has started. This time, it is held along the Auguststrasse, which used to be the main street for commercial galleries in Berlin. I am writing "used to be", because the Berlin art scene has long...

DING DONG! ART FESTIVAL 2006

2006.5.1　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

At the Altona station in Hamburg, German as you keep walking along the vehicle-free promenade you will see an empty building built in 1970s. One of the department stores in the building Karstadt, which has offices thr...

NIPPON CONNECTION 2006

2006.5.1　 Text: Catrin Altenbreandt

In the year 2000 seven students in Frankfurt, Germany formed Nippon Connection to show their love to Japanese films and culture to a broader audience. This idea has lead to Europeans biggest Japanese Film Festival, wi...

MATTHEW BARNEY “DRAWING RESTRAINT 9”

2006.5.1　 Text: Futakawa Yoshitaka

The "Drawing Restraint" series was started by Matthew Barney while he was a student drawing "free climbing" pictures. It was his first solo exhibition, "The Cremaster Cycle" at the Guggenheim Museum, where I was able ...

DESIGN THIEF ON THE RUN WITH BAGS FROM LISA SMITH & EYE-PATCH FROM DAMIAN O’SULLIVAN

2006.4.24　

Last week thieves in Milan broke into the "TuttoBeNe" group exhibition of Belgian and Dutch designers during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Design thief on the run with bags from Lisa Smith & Eye-Patch ...