Category: Events
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Shobus Diary
Why should you be following the Shobus Diary? Momus explains: I’d like to draw your attention to a most extraordinary tour that’s going on in Japan right now, and being blogged in an excellent collective blog. Shobus Diary documents Shobo Shobo artists O.lamm, Domotic, Davide Balula, and Minifer’s “Shoboshobus / Mobium Japan Tour 2005”. (Ishida…
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Summer Kiiiiiii
Last chance to catch Kiiiiiii live for a while! From Neomarxisme: Kiiiiiii will be playing their last major concert of the summer (they’re going on hiatus until the Autumn release of their debut CD and DVD) this Monday, August 1st, at Shinjuku Red Cloth. Opening act: the two-drummer math-rock stylings of Clisms (pronounced: “Christmas”). Doors…
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Mink Engine at the Nakaochiai Gallery
The Nakaochiai Gallery is trying something a bit different on Friday — hosting a musical performance! Nakaochiai Gallery presents: Mink Engine LIVE on the last show for their summer tour. Friday July 29, 7pm – 10pm entrance is FREE This Friday MINK ENGINE will play the last show of their summer tour of Europe, UK…
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Enzo Mari and the Cedars
Spiral is on a roll these days with their exhibitions! The latest: “Enzo Mari Vs. 10 Billion Japanese Cedar Trees.” The maestro of Italian industrial design, Enzo Mari, has worked together with furniture manufacturer Hida Industries from Takayama city in Gifu. They present a new line of furniture made possible with wood-compression technologies applied to…
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GA International 2005
Last week to catch the “GA International 2005,” featuring a who’s who of world-renown architects. GA International provides an outlook on upcoming trends in contemporary architecture. In this exhibition, the latest projects of 5 Japanese and 13 non-Japanese cutting-edge architects will be introduced. (TAB) It’s at the GA Gallery until July 31.
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Art Fair Tokyo
Art Fair Tokyo sounds like a great way to take in all of the city’s great art options all in one go, with a setting (Tokyo International Forum) that I always enjoy taking in. From Tokyo Q: Art Fair Tokyo aims to make modern art more accessible to the public by taking it out of…
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From Scratch
The Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya opens today, and here’s some info on the first exhibition to be presented there, “From Scratch.” This is the opening exhibition of Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya. What looks at first sight like portraits of hip young people is in fact a series showing homeless boys and girls, made by Brad…
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Tokyo Fashion Spotting
This makes me look forward to this Fall’s Swedish Style event. When Swedish illustrator Jessica Romberg first arrived in Japan two years ago, she finally had the chance to be part of her greatest source of inspiration – young urban Japan with its fabulous looking people. Trained at Beckmans school of design in Stockholm, Romberg…