Inside Yayoi Kusama's New Tokyo Museum
Yayoi Kusama, one of Japan’s most prolific and successful artists, surprised her fans and the art world in August when it was reported that the 88-year old artist was getting her own museum in Tokyo. The Yayoi Kusama Museum opens to the public today, October 1. We were there last week for a sneak peek into what visitors can expect from the 5-story building. Visitors expecting a large-scale retrosp
Historical Photos of Japan Brought to Life Using Artificial Intelligence Colorization
For all their charm and nostalgia, black and white photos do create a certain disconnect between the past and present. Looking at them, it’s easy to forget that we’re connected to that time by what is merely a blink of an eye in the grand scale of history. And so it’s worth colorizing old black and white photos if only for the contemporaneity, with which we use to learn from history. Woman and chi
What Would Cities Look Like if They Were “Tokyo-ized”
Eiji, the protagonist in David Mitchell’s novel number9dream described Tokyo as “too close up to see.” His experience of the metropolis goes on: “There are no distances and everything is above your head – dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.” Indeed, evil or not, cities can be thought of as
Takashi Murakami Responds To Sexist Heckling With Portraits of Ayaka Shiomura
June 26, 2014 / Johnny / Comments Off on Takashi Murakami Responds To Sexist Heckling With Portraits of Ayaka Shiomura In case you haven’t heard, all of Japan has been embroiled in a political scandal since last week when assemblywoman Ayaka Shiomura was heckled during a speech with sexist remarks from assemblymen. One of the perpetrators has since stepped forward to apologize while the other rema
Japanese Artist Megumi Igarashi Arrested for 3D Printed Artwork Based on Her Vagina
[UPDATE 5/9/2016] Megumi Igarashi was found guilty in court today for violating Japanese obscenity laws after distributing 3D data of her genitals. She was fined 400K yen (about $3700). She was, however, cleared of another charge relating to displaying a kayak modeled after her vagina. Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi was arrested on Monday for sending 3D modeling data of her vagina. She’s accused
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