Month: July 2007
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Kiiiiiii Interview and Album
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Kiiiiiii get interviewed by CHIEF MAGAZINE. Also, July 7 marked the release of their first full-length album, AL & BUM. I think many will be surprised by the record, as it reveals a very musical side to the band.
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Barry McGee in Aoyama
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TABlog has a few shots of some Barry McGee-created graffiti opposite the Watari-um museum in Aoyama.
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Pocket Parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro
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As I mentioned in my post about the this week’s “My Private Tokyo” segment I did for NHK’s TOKYO EYE program, I took a photo of each of the 11 pocket parks, which you can view in this Flickr photoset. Pictured above are the Higasa park and the Sun Sun park.
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Midori Matsui and Micropop
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Momus’ latest Click Opera post looks at art critic Midori Matsui and her concept of “Micropop.”
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New Tokyo Art Beat T-Shirt Collection
Tokyo Art Beat has launched a new t-shirt collection, their third, that includes tees by Alexander Gelman, Shantell, Dainippon Type Organization, Ayako Ookubo, and Tomoko Konoike. Each tee goes for 3800 yen, and all profit goes to help support TAB, itself an NPO.
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Happening in Tokyo
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Tonight (July 7) sees an all-night event (23:30-29:00) at Liquid Loft to celebrate Minimal Tokyo‘s first anniversary. Ani Watanabe and Masanori Ikeda have an upcoming show at the Calm & Punk Gallery in Nishi-Azabu, “Two Photographers in Shanghai” (July 20-31). There’s an opening party on July 20, and a talk event on July 28.
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Tokyo Galleryscape
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In his latest “Out of Tokyo” column for REALTOKYO, Tetsuya Ozaki maps out the new Tokyo galleryscape.