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GALLERY ROCKET
“ROCKET” conjures up images of a symbolic space where graphic design and street culture have come together from the late 1990’s until now. It is a gallery for the artist collective CAP, which designs for magazines suc...
PLACE
“ROCKET” conjures up images of a symbolic space where graphic design and street culture have come together from the late 1990’s until now. It is a gallery for the artist collective CAP, which designs for magazines suc...
HAPPENING
Transformation of the sight - it can be one of the possibilities of visual arts in the present age. Biwako Biennale 2007 taking place at Omi Hachiman, Shiga Prefecture Japan, was an interesting exhibition being...
HAPPENING
APMT (apartment) is an art & design conference hosted by creative portal website CBCNET. Every time they feature people who are active in the front lines of their fields, and they give us pleasant unique sessions...
PEOPLE
An emerging artist from Holland, who plays with animal, chasing, and knit at will. Felieke van der Leest, Pregnant Panda Bearmaid (2007) I felt like completely being lost. Wondering about what kind of world t...
THINGS
What is Zune? You ever heard of something about it among readers? It is a Microsoft's portable media player originally released in November, 2006. To be honest with you, I rather see iPhone more frequently than Zun...
THINGS
“Scratch On The Wall: Japanese Graffiti” is the collection book of works and interviews that connects graffiti and painting. There are variety of casts: DOPPEL the live painting duo; LOOT the expert graffiti writer; Q...
HAPPENING
The 12th edition of the international exhibition, Documenta12 was held in Kassel , Germany. It was under the direction of Roger-Martin Buergel, and his wife, Ruth Noack. Ai Weiwei, Template, 2007 They hav...
HAPPENING
After I went down the stairs to the gallery, it, something black, suddenly appeared. It stuck out from the ceiling, and rested in the air. There were a set of plane pieces, which could be titled black over black, in t...
HAPPENING
"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...
HAPPENING
This month, I will introduce some art works that caught my eye at various galleries I visited. First, is a young Brazilian video artist Marcellvs L. When I stepped in the middle of the exhibition I saw a huge scr...
HAPPENING
The magical, ARTROOM in Roppongi is a new gallery opened early in 2006. We already cannot take our eyes off this gallery. Because all exhibitions they offer are enormously attractive with the delicate and superb sou...
HAPPENING
I have had a vague sense that, since I came to Berlin, there are so many people who relatively freely cross the border here in Europe, as if there are no borders. It was the exhibition “This Land Is My Land” that supp...
HAPPENING
We had so many events in October in Berlin: the art fair, the opening of the Bode Museum, the exhibition of Rebecca Horn, and so on. And this time, I take up the exhibition at the Alexanderplatz, which was a bit surpr...
PLACE
On the night of September 15th, there was a crowd of people around the back street of Aoyama. The DJ booth had great DJs like Shuya Okino and DJ Muro, and the wayside was full with people from dyed-in-the-wool street ...
HAPPENING
Adapter 2nd exhibition "Memai" was held from August 19th to September 17th at the Nanzuka Uunderground. "Memai" is the exhibition by a graphic artists' group Adapter, which is lead by an Art Director Kenjiro Harigai, ...
HAPPENING
Approximately 60 top artists from 21 countries living in Berlin got together for this exhibition "ANSTOSS BERLIN" in Haus am Waldsee. This museum is located in a suburban of Berlin, Dahlem area. Despite its small appe...
HAPPENING
From July 28th to August 13th in midsummer, "MATZU-MTP EXPO" was held at a Gallery SPEAK FOR. MATZU, who was born in Hida-Takayama, grew up in Orange county, and now lives in New York, is a valuable Japanese artist st...