Award HdW-08PN5-k Thai artist/filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970 in Bangkok) became the surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. The winning work, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, is a surreal tale aboutView More >
Award Exhibition view of 2009 Art Competition Tokyo Midtown is calling for submissions for both the art and design segments of the Tokyo Midtown Award 2010. Launched in 2008, this year marks the third edition of the competition that hasView More >
Exhibition Installation view at TOSTEM Room of Shanghai EXPO Japan Industry Pavilion Photo CANART London-based artist Anish Kapoor joins forces with Japanese architects on a project for Expo 2010, currently underway in Shanghai. Kapoor created the gate linking the realms ofView More >
We would like to introduce good, beautiful catalogues in this blog as “WAKO Selection”. the Vol.3 is “The Political Aesthetics: Power and Representations” by Jun Tanaka (University of Tokyo Press). The cover is Noh mask, and the frontispiece photo isView More >
‘Chaos*Lounge 2010’ – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of “Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya” On April 16, artist and art critic Yohei Kurose gave a lecture in conjunction with Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI University (at the Kakai KikiView More >
Chaos*Lounge 2010 – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya On April 16, artist and art critic Kurose Yohei gave a lecture in conjunction with Murakami Takashi’s GEISAI University (at the Kakai KikiView More >
Today’s topic comes from Hara Museum ARC in Gunma, and it’s a delicious one. Namely, it’s the new “image cake” at the Café d’Art. As all those who follow this blog may know, the image cake is a specially producedView More >
We would like to introduce good, beautiful catalogues in this blog as “WAKO Selection”. the Vol.2 is Helmut Federle’s “Nietzche-Hause Sils-Maria”. HELMUT FEDERLE “NIETZCHE-HAUS Sils-Maria” published by Schwabe AG, Basel edition 1700 ISBN 3-7965-2118-5 Last November, Helmut Federle has hisView More >
ON AIR Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile Exhibition will be introduced in the Art Scene corner of the NHK education TV “Sunday Museum” (nichiyo bijutsukan) (on air 9:00-10:00 am, rerun 8:00-9:00 pm) on Sunday, February 28 from around 9:45 amView More >
20 February – 20 March 2010 NANZUKA UNDERGROUND (Shirokane) Fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke, famed for his FINAL HOME label, has expanded his practice over the last several years to traverse the realms of fashion and contemporary art. In this exhibitionView More >
Event Four days of submersion in an event that aims to ‘bring art back within reach and strip [it] bare’. Held on the second floor of a Tokyo sento, plans call for exhibits and sale of works, performances, and talkView More >
We would like to introduce good, beautiful catalogues in this blog as “WAKO Selection”. the Vol.1 is William Kentridge, whose retrospective exhibtion has been hold at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. WILLIAM KENTRIDGE “TRACE / Prints from theView More >