Got change for a fin? A Japanese five-member art collective calling themselves Kingyobu (“Goldfish Club”) has been installing goldfish tank phone booths in urban Osaka, cleverly recycling these obsolete telecommunication relics while beautifying the ... full story
The Japanese art collective known as Kingyobu ('goldfish club'), made up largely of students from Kyoto University of Art and Design, has been installing these goldfish phone booth aquariums called Gold Tele, throughout Osaka, Japan as part of the city ... full story
Infinity Dots is a retrospective of art by renowned Japanese painter Yayoi Kusama, whose work is inspired by the auditory and visual hallucinations she began experiencing as a young child. In Kusuma's colorful creations, the Earth is just one of a ... full story
The independent Tokyo-based artist's specialty is stencil-dyeing, which requires just the right amount of constant pressure with her right hand as she glides a wooden spatula across the paper stencil covering a 13-meter-long, 30-cm-wide roll of heavy ... full story
1983) has installed his panels so seamlessly into Kyoto's eN arts gallery that the works first appear to be done on the walls. Though having trained as an oil painter, the soft scumblings and wisps of smoke and licks of fire in a restricted palette of ... full story
Nishizawa also manages a gallery-cum-tachinomiya (standing bar) called Shinbun-onna (newspaper lady) in Nanba, Osaka, where visitors can appreciate art and drink at the same time. For Nishizawa's works and upcoming projects visit her website at ... full story
Nowhere else can you find so many Japanese art forms in one place as in the ancient capital of Kyoto. Meet six people working to pass on its artistic heritage, in new ways and old. Related slideshow: Meet the artists of Kyoto. Calligraphy Japan learnt ... full story
Exploring themes of dimensions and time, Japan's contemporary art scene is a cosmos of its own. By MATTHEW LARKING. Special to The Japan Times. "The Cosmos as Metaphor' at Taka Ishii Gallery and Hotel Anteroom Kyoto is almost entirely engaging.full story
LAKE FOREST — Shota Kawahara's art is making its American debut Aug. 17 through Sept. 29 at Re-invent, 202 E. Wisconsin Ave. From Osaka, Japan, by way of New Zealand and Australia, Shota (who typically goes by the one name) is also creating art ... full story
I browse the exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (see momak.go.jp) and visit the Commes de Garcon boutique (378 Kameyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto; see comme-des-garcons.com). Its designer has a highly intellectual type of clothing.and more »full story
