All posts tagged "art"

  • Epson Team Lab Borderless opens at its new Azabudai Hills location

    Epson Team Lab Borderless, the art museum in Odaiba that created a lot of excitement among 2.3 million digital art enthusiasts and spectators on its first year, has found a new home at Azabudai Hills. Certified in...

    • Posted February 6, 2024
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  • This gallery sells a wide range of artworks to dress up boring walls.

    White walls don’t need to be boring, especially if you fill them with your favorite artwork with a design element that creates a focal point in your space. However you choose to do this –  one rule interior...

    • Posted August 30, 2022
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  • “Polar Summer Night” builds a cultural bridge between Finland and Japan at the Puijo Tower

    Post-war Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama (1908–1999), best known for his Nihonga style paintings, made a creatively fruitful trip to the Nordic countries in the spring and summer of 1962. While he was visiting Finland, the beautiful nature...

    • Posted December 23, 2020
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  • Japanese artist carves animals out of Tangerine peels.

    Japan has fascinated the world with different forms of art in which nature is always central to its philosophy. Everyone knows the metaphor of Kintsugi, the art of repairing and preserving a broken pottery with gold to...

    • Posted May 2, 2020
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  • The World of Shoen Uemura’s paintings of beautiful women

    Kyoto-bred modern painter of her times, Uemura Shoen and 18 of her famous paintings will be featured at The Yamatane Museum of Art – Hiroo Kaikan’s 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition from Jan 3 until March 1st, 2020....

    • Posted January 26, 2020
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  • Japan’s next generation of piano has no flat keys and is super expensive.

    The Japanese culture’s pursuit for mastery is world renowned.  From cars and electronics, to alcohol and food, Japan has a knack for improving what already exists. Sara Kovner, a Japanese history teacher at the University of Florida...

    • Posted January 14, 2020
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  • How to Origami

    Before Origami became world famous as a form of Japanese edutainment, this art of paper folding once filled a need in ancient Japan. During the Edo era, gifts did not come with greeting cards like the western...

    • Posted May 23, 2018
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  • The new digital art museum opens June 21

    The art collective teamLab and urban developer Mori Building will showcase futuristic art works at the new Mori Building Digital Art Museum in June. Approximately 50 works including world premiered will be on display in a gigantic...

    • Posted May 23, 2018
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  • Tokyo has a new digital art museum

    Digital art aficionados have something exciting to look forward to this summer. Japan’s urban developers Mori Building and teamLab, a digital content production company,  are gearing up for the opening of  a full-scale digital art museum at...

    • Posted January 29, 2018
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  • MR. SUPERFLAT: Takashi Murakami

    Takashi Murakami is arguably one of the most prominent Japanese modern artists. The leader and driving force behind the artists’ collective Kai Kiki Co, Ltd., Murakami and the artists of the collective are known for their mass...

    • Posted October 18, 2017
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  • UK based Japanese artist puts heart to art

    Kazuhito Takadoi may not be a household name in Japan but art aficionados in Europe pay a high price for his brand of art. Takadoi studied Garden Art and Design at Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K....

    • Posted April 12, 2017
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  • Art has no limits

    When Takayuki Fukuzawa launched a series of eyebrow raising T-shirt designs called “Moso Mapping Akai Bra T-shirt” or 3D red bra T-shirts via mail order, it was sold out in three days. Takayuki Fukuzawa who works at...

    • Posted November 1, 2014
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  • Art Matters

    Teaching art in Japan was an unimaginable possibility for someone coming through the Los Angeles public schools in the 1960s and ‘70s.  At least I would not have imagined it for myself.  After all, I had no...

    • Posted March 8, 2014
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  • Jeremiah D. Welsh Talks Art

    The natural world is an ostensibly simple one. Its beauty, however, is deeply rooted in its complexity. This is the concept that fascinates artist Jeremiah Welsh. A new Tokyo resident, the Connecticut native encapsulates his unique outlook...

    • Posted May 4, 2013
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  • Hold on to your dragons

    Divya Cherian, artist and founder of Bite the Rainbow International Art and Design, is all fired up for the Year of the Dragon, 2012.

    • Posted January 30, 2012
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  • The heart of art

    For many, there is nothing more cherished than memories.  As such, whether they consist of pictures from a recent family trip or from one’s own childhood, photo albums are some of the most valued items in many...

    • Posted September 28, 2010
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  • The porcelain painter meets the culinary master chef

    Fueled by her passion for tableware, ceramics, and jewelry design as a child,  Fleur d’Huytesa pursued her studies at Sevre, a renowned French porcelain manufacturer where she received her first tutelage in the art.  Fleur had always...

    • Posted September 28, 2010
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  • 100% Hip City

    We all know Tokyo is hip but Tokyo Designer’s Week kicks off at the end of October to make sure we don’t forget. Now in its 23rd year, the event is a mecca for designers from around...

    • Posted November 4, 2008
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  • Art feast

    Japan’s contemporary art world is coming of age. The nation’s youth are updating the scene, injecting the culture with their own 21st century visions and styles. Consider it the latest renaissance. From the distinctive art of anime...

    • Posted November 4, 2008
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  • Soul moving: Toriizaka art

    TF talks to Karen Thomas the owner of Toriizaka Art, an innovative salon gallery that shares its premises with her family’s Roppongi home.  Karen first moved to Tokyo in 1992 with her husband Jack and their two...

    • Posted November 4, 2008
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  • Sister Act

    It is said that music is the universal language, transcending cultural boundaries. Three American girls in Japan are living proof of that theory. Kyla (16 years old), Brenna (13 years old), and Shana (9 years old) Ryan...

    • Posted October 1, 2008
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  • Amor flamenco, amor de Tokyo

    The passion of the dance

    • Posted June 1, 2008
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