• Weekend

    Weekend

    core of bells is an art collective and hardcore punk band from Japan. Their new film work “WEEKEND” embraces ideas of boredom to illuminate everyday strife.

  • Honeymoon

    Honeymoon

    I’ve been working with artist Yu Araki on text for his latest film HONEYMOON being shown as part of the “Connections – 150 years of Modern Art in Japan and France” exhibition at the POLA Museum of Art (11/14/2020 – 4/4/2021). Commissioned by the POLA Museum and POLA Art Foundation, HONEYMOON…

  • Aug ’20-Jul ’21 / Copyright Liberation Front

    Aug ’20-Jul ’21 / Copyright Liberation Front

    “Walk through town and chances are you’ll find flyers strewn across the street selling the company of strangers. These haven’t fallen out of someones bag or slipped from pages of an awkward magazine, they’ve been thrown there on purpose… ”

  • Yutaka Sone

    Yutaka Sone

    “Repeating ceaselessly, in the dark, dark night. Decisions were made only and solely to ensure our survival. This was long, long ago in a time much, much before time, when I did not rely on landscapes to distinguish myself from the stones, birds, animals, and rivers.”

  • imshow

    imshow

    ‘imshow: Hak-hyun Kim, Osamu Sakuma (Rondade)’, curated by Kakeru Okada at kanzan gallery, Higashi Kanda

  • Anoushka Akel

    Anoushka Akel

    “These are paintings about human attention, who or what we pay it to and who pays it to us. They’re observations of the quality of that attention and the grappling with attention’s attendant power and inequality.  I’ve been considering the relationship between the ‘in here’ and ‘out there’, as straining…

  • imshow

    imshow

    ‘imshow: Yusuke Endou, Shingo Kanagawa, Osamu Kanemura’, curated by Kakeru Okada at kanzan gallery, Higashi Kanda

  • Reiji Saito – #24

    Reiji Saito – #24

    Lavender Opener Chair is an artist run space in Nishi-Ogu, Arakawa-ku run by artist/curator Yohei Watanabe 渡邉 庸平, alongside Yoko & Tatsuhiko Togashi 冨樫 of Tohmei Diner 灯明

  • Yohei Kobayashi

    Yohei Kobayashi

    Yohei Kobayashi at mumei, Kiyosumi-shirakawa

  • Contrastissimo

    Contrastissimo

    The “striking difference” here is perhaps the reddest herring: Are all these different people actually the same person? Who cares. The show has a very big heart. Contrastissimo Rasa_EL_FabulaMark HandJean-Gwénolé FleuriotElke LenteLa Flûte EnchantéeJoseph Beuys From The GraveJordi Villafranca July 19 – August 16, 2020 http://www.4-6-4-9.jp/contrastissimo-%40-4.6.4.9.html