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Dekanta
Sponsored | Dekanta Mono No Aware, Anniversary World Blend 2024 by dekantā —the most international whisky. The renowned artisanal label has enlisted emerging artist Richard Ford III to infuse his creative vision into their exclusive small-batch whisky. In 1859 Thomas Blake Glover (1838-1911), a Scottish merchant, arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, just five years after the…
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Hiroko Saigusa: Wabi Sabi in Action
Hiroko Saigusa: Wabi Sabi in Action By Jonathan Goodman, June 11, 2024 Tokyo-based Hiroko Saigusa is idiosyncratic in her wide choice of vocations–she is a painter, a performance artist, a collaborator with hip hop DJs and dancers, and, not least, a fortune teller on demand. On June 6th, in the slightly cramped studio space of…
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Toshiki Hayasaka: Ephemeral Samurai
Toshiki Hayasaka: Ephemeral Samurai By Jake Price, December 5, 2023 Born in 1990 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Toshiki Hayasaka is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Tokyo. Through his art and way of life, Hayasaka is dedicated to living life in the present. These moments of living in the present ultimately weave together to form…
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Urushi Lacquerwork & Climate Change
As climate change impacts the growth of urushi trees and the number of skilled artisans declines, initiatives are being launched to safeguard this unique cultural heritage while adapting to a rapidly changing world.
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Hitoshi Fugo
Hitoshi Fugo: KAMI at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery By Jonathan Goodman, May 3, 2024 Now in his late seventies, Hitoshi Fugo is showing a body of work conceived and created some time ago: a suite of eleven black-and-white images, taken from the total of 31 photos that make up his project KAMI, which means paper and…
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Kikuo Saito: Color Codes
Kikuo Saito: Color Codes at James Fuentes Gallery By Jonathan Goodman, April 20, 2024 Kikuo Saito(1939-2016) left Tokyo for New York in 1966, at the age of 26. He established himself downtown, only six blocks away from the present home of the Fuentes gallery on White Street, Tribeca, Manhattan, where his work is now on…
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Interview with Mira Nakashima
Interview with Mira Nakashima We speak with the renowned architect and furniture maker about the transcendent nature of craft, her early years growing up in the Minidoka concentration camp and how questioning authority led to the continued success of Nakashima Woodworkers. By Kyoko Sato & Jake Price, April 17, 2024 Following the release of The Nakashima Process…