FRANS HALS MUSEUM

2008.1.24　 Text: Filip De Haes

The Frans Hals Museum is located in the center of Haarlem, a cosy city with 150 000 inhabitants, capital of Noord Holland and only a 15 minute trainride away from Amsterdam. It is named after the 17th century painter ...

HUG FLOWER’S AKIRA NAKAMURA.

2008.1.10　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

I am a northerner but I have no head for snow. Still wish snow in Christmas season. It is a pleasant sight to see someone walking with a flower gift in powder snow. Let me introduce a flower shop recently opened ne...

GLOGAUAIR

2007.12.28　 Text: Peta Jenkin

The city of Berlin attracts artists from all over the world, not least because of its affordable and relaxed lifestyle, but because of the innumerable amount of commercial and artist run spaces. Cultural life really ...

BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

2007.12.10　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Newcastle upon Tyne, usually shortened to Newcastle, is the largest city in North-East England. The night view around the Tyne river always attracts tourists, even the Londoners who are usually happy with Thames. Th...

MAC/VAL

2007.12.3　 Text: Kana Sunayama

The first contemporary museum located in the suburbs of Paris, MAC/VAL (Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne) is now commemorating its 2nd anniversary. In Japan you may imagine a quiet residential area when...

HAUS DER MUSIK (THE SOUND MUSEUM)

2007.11.20　 Text: Eduard Prats Molner

An interactive discovery museum located in the heart of Vienna. Photo © Haus der Musik Haus der Musik (The Sound Museum) of Vienna was inaugurated on June, 15 of 2000. The building is situated right in the cit...

YAMAGUCHI CENTRE FOR ARTS AND MEDIA (YCAM)

2007.11.7　 Text: Yuko Matono

In Yamaguchi city Yamaguchi Prefecture, after passing the Yuta hot-spring area crowded with hotels, you will come across an open space all of sudden. Over the green carpet of the grass, you will find three of small, m...

BEIJING NANLUOGU XIANG

2007.10.31　 Text: Wee Ling Soh

With the 2008 Olympics commencing in less than a year, Beijing is working overtime in a major urban overhaul and regrettably, this has also prompted the accelerated destruction of its lovely hutongs. These ancient all...

DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA

2007.10.17　 Text: Naoko Kawaguchi

Located in a quiet fashion area out from Kotto-dori in Aoyama Tokyo, Italian apparel brand Diesel opened their new store Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in September 2007. Previously located in Daikanyama, the store exist...

SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE

2007.10.13　 Text: Aya Takada

Sendai Mediatheque (smt) opened on beautiful, lined with trees, Jyo-zenji avenue, in Sendai, January, 2001. Since the opening, the architecture by the architect Toyo Ito became a hot topic for the architects and the b...

INSA ART SPACE

2007.10.9　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Space complex envisioning multiplicity, exchange, and sustainability. M/M(Paris), CHAIN OF NOISES(wall), Fragments of Future Histories(floor), 2006, exhibition view of “Frame Builders”, IAS, Seoul © IAS, ARKO ...

PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA

2007.10.2　 Text: Filip De Haes

The Picasso Museum (used to be Palacio de Buenavista) has opened 2003 in Malaga, Spain where Pablo Picasso who is one of the top artists in 20 Century was born. © Museo Picasso Málaga Walls are white and the ...