The principle of appropriating the modern for personal expression is behind Tokyo's renowned noise scene, part of the city's musical avant-garde as captured in the sporadically inspired documentary “We Don't Care About Music Anyway ...” Several artists ... full story
For Life (Rhizome) Tatsuo Miyajima developed a new generation of gadgets in cooperation with Takashi Ikegami, who has researched artificial life for fifteen years at Tokyo University. The number patterns no longer follow a firmly established structure ... full story
Japanese sculpture artist Haroshi breathes new life into old skate decks by painstakingly layering them together, creating unique and vibrant pieces that speak to both the art and skateboarding worlds. "Freedom seems very simple, but it is also ... full story
I went to see “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde” at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for the first time in late December 2012. I found the colorful show both inviting and intimating. I could see all the scholarship that had been put into ... full story
... pop stars including Ayumi Hamasaki, Yumi Matsutoya, and Kumi Koda, as well as internationally famous models Naomi Campbell and Maggi Q, was taken into police custody along with two employees of the book's publisher at an art gallery in Tokyo.Celebrity photographer arrested for 'obscene' picture, could full story
Work spanning more than a decade of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes' practice will be on show at Mendes Wood (Sao Paolo). Take Ninagawa (Tokyo) will show historic works by Japanese artist Tsuruko Yamazaki, including a piece originally realized for the ... full story
After a stay in New York, the artist returned to Tokyo to launch the Hiropon Factory (Kaikai Kiki's Japanese hub), outlining his aims in a landmark essay titled "Superflat." Later on, he expanded his empire by collaborating with Marc Jacobs, and even ... full story
ONE thing you've got to make time for is Tokyo Street, an art exhibition that showcases urban street art from Japan. The exhibition - part of Singapore Art Week - focuses on the works of 10 artists with very different aesthetics. The moment you walk ... full story
As a rowdy young Neo-Dadaist artist in Tokyo, Ushio yearned for international recognition, so in 1969 he set sail for New York City. Nineteen-year-old Noriko came to New York to study art, where she met and fell in love with Ushio, 21 years her senior ... full story
One of the great stories in the history of the arts in Boston — right up there with the writings of the Transcendentalists or the surging ambition of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky — is the story of the formation of the Asian ... full story
