"Fragment"
at Super Deluxe
in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
This event has ended - (2009-03-22)
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Pecha Kucha Night Vol.57
at Super Deluxe
in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
This event has ended - (2009-02-25)
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AIT Artist Talk #39 "Follow Me Under Your Skin - and other visions for the Waking State"
at A.I.T. Room
in the Nakameguro, Ebisu area
This event has ended - (2009-03-23)
Moving On
Tokyo galleries like to cluster together in the same buildings. The Shirokane building currently features the second Takahashi Collection space and Yamamoto Gendai, and will be joined by another tenant come April as Nanzuka Underground will be moving in. See this Japanese report for more.
Departures
The photographer Gianni Giansanti, famous for his pictures of the Pope and of murdered Italian PM Aldo Moro, has died. See the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune for more.
Publications
For those of you hungering for the best tips on Tokyo, alongside TAB’s Art Map the capital now has a new bilingual guidebook, Tokyo by Tokyo, produced by Claska. As introduced at February’s Pecha Kucha Night, the guide features two hundred recommended hot spots selected by seventy navigators and goes on general sale this week. It will also be available online at the TAB Shop from mid-April. See Claska’s website and Daily PechaKucha for more.
What’s more, the recent Fragment event saw the release of a new art, fashion and design listings magazine. document is free and offers information on events and related ventures. Check out TAB’s double-page spread!
The Mori Art Museum is also publishing a new book detailing three workshops by Tomoko Konoike, where the streets of Roppongi were re-imagined as dark forests.
And the winner is…
It seems scarcely a week doesn’t go by without yet another award being announced. Manga lovers will be interested to know that Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsuku has been given the Manga Taisho. However, Suetsuku and publisher Kodansha have previously admitted plagiarizing other writers’ work.
Events
As a companion to her recent talk and performance at AIT, Finnish artist-in-residence Meri Nikula will hold a workshop on April 4. See AIT’s website for reservation details.
In a week heavy with free-paper and publication news, here’s another one! To welcome the twenty-first anniversary of free-paper dictionary, media CLUBking is organizing a new event on every last Monday in the month, starting March 30. “Club Dictionary” will be held at EATS and MEETS Cay in Aoyama. Participants include the actress Kyoko Koizumi, writer Reo Yoshida and photographer Itaru Hirama. The event will feature talks, music, slideshows, comedy and more! See this Japanese report for details.
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