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Tokyo Designers Block (TDB) was held throughout Tokyo in areas such as Aoyama, Harajuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Daikanyama, Shinjuku, etc from October 9th to 13th. It is a very unique art festival not only in terms of its...
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The highly anticipated "Silence sonore" at the Palais de Tokyo is the first major show at a parisian institution devoted to the chinese artist Chen Zhen. Chen Zhen was born in Shangai in 1955 and France as his residen...
PEOPLE
French graphic designer, Genevieve Gauckler created the cover design for this issue. She creates images by "sampling" different kinds of things into an image such as pictures, characters or everyday items. Her most un...
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This exhibition is by Keiko Miyata, an artist who creates wonderful and strange stuffed animals. Following last year's exhibition "IN&OUT", Soso Cafe was filled with cute and scary stuffed animals. The exhibit's o...
THINGS
Now, there's one more topic. Recently, there is "art vogue" in the publishing world featuring art topics in general magazines. In this situation, one deep art magazine has started. It is "ART iT". ("iT" is an ab...
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Japanese say that autumn is for art, reading or eating, etc.. These were some good topics, suitable for "autumn for art" in Tokyo in autumn 2003. The hottest topic in the Japanese art world is the opening of Mori Art ...
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"Performance art is anything but bookish which could explain the lack of written history which has contributed to many misconceptions. The Academy's misrepresentation and misunderstanding have left performance art as ...
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I recently took the time to visit the Tokyo Doll Show at the DX here in Toronto on the advice of my friend Derrick Hodgson (MDRL, Hoboyard). I was aware of some of the interesting new things happening such as the caps...
PEOPLE
First impressions can be deceiving and nowhere is this more evident than in the work of Aico Dinkla. He creates beautiful clothes but to call him just a fashion designer would be a disservice. To call him an artist is...
PLACE
It was a sunny Sunday morning when I took a ride to La Boca, one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. I didn't really know what to expect, because I used to go there as a child and it wasn't ...
HAPPENING
Color Space e-basis, Bertl Mutter, composer, Vienna, 2003 "Colour is visible light. This light becomes space - Colour Space. In the Colour Space your body turns into light, Into immaterial colour - on the move....
PLACE
This summer Wibke, a good friend of mine, was working at the art-association "Springhornhof" in Neuenkirchen, a small village out in the country. As I visited her, I had my first contact with landscape-art. I think...
