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On May 15th 2008, a piece of mail arrived following the report by The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, "At last, the Japanese government is going to recognize the Ainu as an indigenous people!" The mailing continued to report ...
NEWS
Spell, 2006 © Maria Lassnig Viennese painter Maria Lassnig (b.1919) has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. She is an avant-garde pioneer with a feminist viewpoint, contin...
NEWS
Wolfgang Tillmans Exhibition "Lighter" is taking place at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin. German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has continually expanded the range of his work, and has concentrated on photographic p...
HAPPENING
New York has just held it's First International Photography Festival in the United States and despite arriving jet lagged from a vacation the night before I managed to catch the last day of the event. The 3 day festiv...
PLACE
A few years ago, the Bowery existed as a haphazard ménage of old New York City fire escapes, refurbished refrigerators and the poor souls that found themselves at the Bowery mission. It was hardly a posh neighborhood,...
HAPPENING
One of the world biggest international furniture fairs, The 47th Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile was held from 16th to 21st April in Milan, Italy. This article is a digest of the report by Daisuke Ark Kozuk...
HAPPENING
TENORI-ON is the innovative music instrument that has been taken about 6 years for its completion, created by Toshio Iwai, a leading media artist in Japan. It has 16 x 16 LED buttons laid out on its surface. Each butt...
PLACE
The first thing art fans can think of when hearing the name of town Rotterdam will be Boymans van Beuningen Museum where contains Bruegel's 'Tower of Babel' as its collection. Contemporary art fans might have their a...
PEOPLE
Yuichi Higashionna is an artist whose works of paintings, objects and installations are inspired by unexplainable odd and uncanny feelings emerged from something strikes him in his everyday life. Something unexplainab...
PEOPLE
A music producer Joaquin "Joe" Claussell. Celebrating his brand new album “Corresponding Echoes”, Joe was making a Japan tour from March to April in 2008. We had a change to interview with him asking about new album ...
PLACE
How many times have you been to book stores in this month? How many books have you read in the month? You might be missing something if you haven't been there lately. Shibuya Publishing & Booksellers is a uniq...
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It is definitely important to think about the environment. However, it is difficult to keep being aware of something in our everyday lives. You cannot act anything without being aware of. There are many cases that ...
