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Category: Art

  • May Art Links

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    The Art Space Tokyo blog has a new round-up of art links, covering the month of May.

  • Jun

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    Beautiful illustrative work by a Kyoto-based artist — the only profile info on the site lists her name (Jun) and that she’s a 21-year-old student. Via Max.

  • New York Art Beat 1st Anniversary Party

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    New York Art Beat is celebrating its 1st anniversary with a party and exhibition this Saturday (June 13, from 19:00) at the Dumbo Arts Center. The event will include lots of performances, including Shantell and Hiro. Here’s wishing everyone a great event, and a long life for the site!

  • PangeaSeed

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    Tokyo-based eco collective PangeaSeed is organizing an event, “No Fin No Future,” on July 30 at SuperDeluxe. From the official website: PangeaSeed will feature a special screening of the award winning documentary Sharkwater. The event will be supported by special guest speaker, Kim McCoy of the Shark Angels, guest bands, and DJ. As well as…

  • Carl Randall's Portrait Project

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    Carl Randall is a Ph.D. student in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Arts, and he’s looking for volunteers for a new project. He’s currently on the lookout for hundreds of people to pose for portraits that would appear on large canvases, and later exhibited in Tokyo and London. If interested, you can get…

  • Cadavres Exquis

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    Designboom has a rather nice gallery of shots from Jules Julien’s “Cadavres Exquis” exhibition at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama. The show runs until August 2.

  • TKG Daikanyama Closes

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    The latest Tokyo art-related economic casualty: the TKG Daikanyama gallery. From TAB’s latest news digest: Every month has brought news from London and New York of gallery closures and cut-backs, but so far the only obvious Tokyo victims have been media ones (Ping Mag, Real Tokyo, Art iT, Tokyo Art Cross). However, this week we…

  • A Kiss from Tokyo

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    I am absolutely in love with the look of this “A Kiss from Tokyo” short. It’s a trailer for an upcoming book by illustrator Kevin Dart called Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7, which is scheduled to come out this summer. The trailer was directed by Dart and Stephane Coedel. Yuki 7 is my…