HAPPENING
About 30 years ago, "Bikkuri House", a legendary sub-culture magazine appeared in Shibuya, Tokyo. ("Bikkuri" means "Surprise" in English) Nowadays, young people might not even know its name which ceased to exist twent...
HAPPENING
They say the world is getting smaller. With globalization, the popularity of the internet and improved transportation, cities begin to replicate, people start to emulate. And yet we still live in our own tiny worlds. ...
HAPPENING
The exhibition "I am the Remix," is being held at the Western Front from January 10th to February 14th, 2004. The show, curated by Adrienne Lai, addresses the theme of DJ culture. Vancouver-based DJ, Lawrence Sim, Med...
PEOPLE
Imagine an evening where the food you eat is part of an art performance. An evening packed with colours, fairytales and random acts of love. Welcome to the world of Nathalie Stiphout. Welcome to the Art of Sushi. ...
PEOPLE
"I once wrote a story about a man who absorbed everyone's pain and was slowly dying. The story ends when he dies in the middle of a downtown street while everyone around still keep transferring their pain to him. It w...
PLACE
A bright white light beams from an unassuming street in Mitte-Nord, Berlin. As I am drawn automatically to this unusually fluorescent spectacle, I can't help but wonder why it feels so familiar. Curiosity increa...
PEOPLE
Meeting in a good restaurant, eating chicken curry, drinking wine and talking about what's happening in the Italian design scene. This what's happened some days ago in a normal sunny day in Milan... Please Robe...
HAPPENING
Far from galleries and festivals L'Autre Video, "The Other Video" in English, offers to screen video art in a place of exchange and daily life: l'Autre Cafe. The aim of the event is to become a media to present pieces...
HAPPENING
January 16th was a particularly cold Friday night here in New York: the mercury dropped to -10 ℃ and froze as arctic blasts, were definitely in full chill-factor mode outside. When the weather gets this hostile, I som...
HAPPENING
How often does a catalog overshadow the actual exhibition? In this case, it's a close call which is better. The Paper Sculpture Show, which originated at the Sculpture Center in New York, invites visitors to get invol...
HAPPENING
I don't know why, but it seems every time the California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) holds its end-of-semester thesis show, it rains. I guess it is only fitting: for the studen...
HAPPENING
Berlin is on the brink of bankruptcy. It can be felt in the uncut lawns of parks, the empty storefronts of small businesses, and now in the echoes of bustling crowds and chants that fill the streets of Berlin almost e...
