MAKING HISTORY—By Andrew Maerkle
“I grew up with stories—not from a book, but from a storyteller, my late father. I remember vividly how Dad used to tell stories to all my friends in front of our house. My favorite was the legend about the dowry of the princess of the mountain Gunung Ledang. As a kid, my imagination went completely wild when I heard about the list of impossible conditions that the princess requested as her dowry to the Sultan of Malacca. Can you even imagine?”

Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 106
100 years of art in the Japanese archipelago—In the 100th year since the Great Kanto Earthquake and the birth of Hachiko On September 16, I attended “Kazushi Ooura: Mt. Unzen Fugen/Strata of Memory” at the Musashino Art University Museum & Library.View More >