Jean Snow [.net]

Category: City Life

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    You’ll want to hit Ikebukuro for the 6th annual “Kappa Ten” (Kappa Exhibition) at the Artist Garden gallery (July 10-22). As Matt Alt describes it, “it’s a celebration of everyone’s favorite cucumber-eatin’, sumo-wrestlin’, anus-attackin’, water-dwellin’ yokai from Japanese folklore,” and will include artwork from more than twenty artists. Matt’s Yokai Attack! book will also be…

  • Item Idem Calling

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    Item Idem needs you help for an upcoming project. See the call to art above, or get in touch with them for more details.

  • Graniph Design Award.2

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    The winners for this year’s Graniph Design Awards have been announced, with all designs now being sold at Graniph stores as well. The gold prize went to the design you see above, by Taiwan’s Cho Jo Tzu. You may have noticed that I don’t post much about Graniph these days, and I think the award…

  • Roppongi Art Map

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    Art Space Tokyo has released another downloadable PDF art map, this time for the Roppongi area.

  • Chris Kirby’s Negative Series Exhibition

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    Frequent PauseTalker Chris Kirby is currently holding an exhibition, the “Negative Series,” at the cafe until July 7. Says Chris about the show: I’ve created a new line of porcelain ware and am showing it for the first time at Cafe Pause. Reversing the positive/negative relationship between mold and object, the “negative series” captures the…

  • Tokyo Art Beat PDF Maps

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    Can’t find those TAB art maps around town? Now you can download them as a PDF as well. Here’s a link to a TABlog post where you can download the June/July edition.

  • Nadiff Re-opens Soon

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    For everyone who’s missed the Nadiff art bookshop, it re-opens next week (July 7) in a new art building in Ebisu that will also be the new home of Magical Artroom and G/P Gallery. More details at Art Space Tokyo.

  • Shantell Martin and Her Wacom

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    Shantell Martin sure likes to use her Wacom tablet when she does live performances and events, so much so that Wacom ended up doing a case study on her. Read the whole interview here.