Month: January 2008

  • Ryoji Ikeda

    Max Hodges talks about Ryoji Ikeda and his upcoming exhibition at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.

  • TABlog: 10 Ways to Improve Art and Design Event Websites

    Over at TABlog, Tokyo Art Beat co-founder Paul Baron shares 10 ways to improve art and design-related event websites, based on his experience with TAB and other projects he’s worked on with AQ. The illustrations in the article are by Jose Luis Olivares, so that’s a double dose of PauseTalkers for ya!

  • PingMag: Guerilla Green

    PingMag covers a phenomenon any Tokyo resident is very much used to seeing: the desire by some to add green to the city in a variety of ways, but mostly by creating islands of flowerpots.

  • Many Marui

    In his latest “jaPRESS” column for the MARUIONE.JP site, Patrick Macias takes us on a tour of the various Marui branches in Tokyo.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 17

    Thanks to everyone who made it to this week’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 17), and for making it such an engaging evening. It was a great group, and I also thank Yuka Yamaguchi for coming back to the cafe to participate and talk about her works and her exhibition that is currently on show at…

  • Yuka Yamaguchi at Cafe Pause

    Cafe Pause is currently hosting an exhibition of prints by Yuka Yamaguchi, “Strict! Japanese High School,” until January 13. It was also great to have her participate in this week’s edition of PauseTalk, where she talked about her works. I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of the show. Update: Yuka talks about the show on her…

  • PingMag: Takao Sakai

    PingMag covers the food art of Takao Sakai.

  • SANAA Interview

    THE JAPAN TIMES has an interview with architects Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA). Via Core77.

  • PauseTalk Tonight

    I just realized that I forgot to make a separate post announcing it, but please note that tonight’s PauseTalk will start at 20:00. Also, Yuka Yamaguchi should be there to talk about her exhibition that started today at Cafe Pause.

  • Nengajou on the Web

    The SADA104 site has a terrific nengajou (New Year postcards) online exhibition, with great contributions that really should have been available for sale as a printed product! Pictured above is the contribution from illustrator Rin Nadeshico. Update (16/11/13): The image is no longer available.