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Tokyo Public Toilet Puts On a Mesmerizing Light Show

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Tomohito Ushiro’s design features billions of shifting lighting patterns and encourages people to use the restroom without “feeling stress.”

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Tokyo’s World-Renowned Capsule Tower Will Be Demolished

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

After years of disrepair, architect Kisho Kurokawa’s iconic building will be disassembled one capsule at a time.

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Giant Balloon Face Floats Over Tokyo

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 20, 2021July 21, 2021

The eerie aerial piece was created by the artist collective 目 (“Mé”) and features an anonymous face chosen from over 1,000 submissions.

Posted inArt

Tom of Finland Comes to Japan

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 26, 2020November 5, 2020

Out, proud, and unabashedly homoerotic, the gay artist’s iconic imagery has become an international symbol of freedom.

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A Tokyo Exhibition Invited Visitors to Steal the Art

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 14, 2020November 5, 2020

The unconventional show at Same Gallery, which encouraged attendees to run off with the art, was emptied in a matter of minutes.

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Hauntingly Beautiful Photos for an Anxious Moment

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez June 20, 2020November 5, 2020

On Instagram, Kana Hashimoto’s images of nocturnal Tokyo unwittingly capture the odd feeling of time itself as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.

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Chris Ofili and Naoki Urasawa Among Artists to Create Posters for 2020 Olympics

by Monica Castillo January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

Twenty posters to commemorate the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

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The “Small-Time Crook” Whose Visions Defied Apartheid

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 2, 2019November 7, 2019

An amateur photographer’s images of louche Cape Town nightlife in the 1960s capture a daring, booze-fueled, melting-pot spirit in the face of apartheid.

Posted inIn Brief

Long-Lost Chapter of the World’s First Novel Found in a Tokyo Home

by Hakim Bishara October 15, 2019

Before now, only four of 54 chapters from the Tale of Genji had been confirmed as original transcriptions.

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A German Artist’s Notes From Underground

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez July 6, 2019July 5, 2019

Mischa Leinkauf’s images of subterranean urban worlds are formally arresting and packed with metaphorical meaning.

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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals Will Be Made from Recycled Gadgets

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne February 12, 2019

The Medal Project will mine gold, silver, and bronze from nearly 50,000 tons of donated e-waste.

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Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music

by Stan Mir July 30, 2016July 30, 2016

TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.

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