Jinny Street Gallery: Tokyo’s Biggest, Yet Smallest Gallery
The public image of Shibuya is that of an overcrowded city that never sleeps – but an art walk on the Jinny Street Gallery shows a different side.
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Tokyo Art Book Fair 2024: More than Books
Tokyo Art Book Fair is one of those events I wished I heard before much sooner. It’s a chance to meet independent publishers, authors and lots of creative minds.
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Naoshima – Island of Art
Naoshima is known as the “art island” and has several art museums with exhibits by various well-known artists. The island is also well prepared for tourists with a shuttle bus connecting the various art sites and the port.
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Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul
A visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are wooden figures used to decorate funeral carriages.
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Mominoki House & Design Festa Gallery
My favourite shopping spree grounds are Shimokitazawa and Harajuku and today I travelled to the latter. But first I ate at the Mominoki House which is a “food concept store”.
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Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts
When you have very little time, you tend to choose places where you can do multiple things. Today I went to the Olympic Park, the park around the main site of the 1988 Summer Olympics. I took a different route and arrived at the SOMA (map) first, the Seoul Olympic Museum of Arts.
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Tokyo Designer’s Week: Upcycle this!
A classmate of mine told me about the Tokyo Designer’s Week (TDW) which is held at some main locations and various galleries.
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Design Festa 25: Tokyo Art Festival 2007
Design Festa 25 time! I got four free tickets from the household agency so obviously I had to go. I met with Kelly and Kevin at Shinagawa to take the Yurikamome line to the Tokyo Big Sight, the famous inverted-pyramid-event-hall.
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A chat with the neighbourhood police
There are hardly any people who ring the doorbell and the bell has an awful sound. So I’m always shocked when I hear my doorbell and today it was not the postman: It was someone from the local police
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