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Category: Books

  • Art Space Tokyo in The Guardian

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    ART SPACE TOKYO gets a very nice piece in THE GUARDIAN.

  • New Art Space Tokyo Site Offers Art Maps

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    Chin Music Press has made a major update to the promotional site for ART SPACE TOKYO, now including a section that will offer the art maps found in the book as downloadable PDFs (a new one every two weeks or so). The maps are absolutely beautiful, and it’s great that they’re offering them for download…

  • PingMag: Housing Complexes

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    PingMag interviews Ken Oyama about his passion for housing complexes. Oyama is behind the new photo book DANCHI NO KENKYU (AN ASSESSMENT OF HOUSING COMPLEXES).

  • Japanese Rooms

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    JAPANESE ROOMS is a new photo book by artist and graphic designer Sven Ingmar Thies that takes a look at how the Japanese live, with photo spreads of their rooms taken in five cities (Berlin, New York, Shanghai, Vienna, and Tokyo). The book can be purchased from the Kaitenart website, or through Amazon Japan.

  • Art Space Tokyo Launch

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    Congrats to the Chin Music Press crew for the crowded book launch of ART SPACE TOKYO this past Tuesday. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, then it’s off to the AST site you go. I predict this will become their best-selling book. Yeah, it’s that good.

  • Art Space Tokyo Release Party

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    You already know about Chin Music Press‘ upcoming ART SPACE TOKYO: AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE TOKYO ART WORLD — if not, here’s my previous post — and now it’s time to celebrate the launch. The Tokyo release party will take place at the Pink Cow in Shibuya, April 22, from 19:00 to 23:00. Also,…

  • TABlog: Art Fair Tokyo

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    Ashley Rawlings interviews Misa Shin, Executive Director of Art Fair Tokyo 2005 (this year’s edition takes place this weekend), on TABlog. The interview is an excerpt from Chin Music Press’ ART SPACE TOKYO, which goes on sale next week. Tonight I’m heading to the opening of the 101TOKYO art fair. Can’t wait! Update: And here’s a…

  • Bookoff Offers to Pay Manga Creators

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    As reported by Anime News Network: Bookoff Corporation, Japan’s largest used bookstore chain, has reportedly offered to pay 100 million yen (about US$1 million) to the Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century, The Japan Writers’ Association, and other creators’ associations. According to the newspapers who first learned of this offer on March…