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Shooting the Yakuza

Art  |  Dec 20 2013

... travelled to Kabukicho in Shinjuku to document the everyday life of a certain yakuza syndicate. This rare project delves deep into a part of Japanese culture considered highly mysterious overseas, and succeeds at documenting the yakuza ...

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The Art Lover's Guide to Japanese Museums

Art & Culture  |  Jun 27 2014

... travellers –whether they are exploring Tokyo or further afield. Aside from Kyu Asakura, which one is your favourite? That's like asking which child is my favourite! [Laughs] The thing about Japanese museums is that ...

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Area guide: Fukagawa

Shops , Art , Restaurants & Cafés , Around Town  |  Apr 23 2014

... travel-themed caféis your best bet for a substitute: browsing the many travel-related magazines, admiring the model planes and sipping on an `airplane latte' will (almost) make you feel like you're in an actual ...

Jesper Haynes’s New York

Art  |  May 05 2010

... travelled around the world, so I wanted to do the same. He never worked, so I thought it was perfect. When did you start taking the pictures [in the exhibition]? JH: I always took pictures ...

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Red Bunny Tattoo

Shops , Art  |  Feb 17 2015

... sometimes get their travel memories inked.' Coin-sized designs from ¥10,000, postcard-sized from ¥50,000, larger sizes by the hour ( ¥12,000/hour). Visitors welcome, same-day appointments okay. English spoken.* ...

Shi Ryu Do

Shops , Art  |  Feb 17 2015

... travelled and enjoys bringing together different cultures at his studio, so Shi Ryu Doh attracts a cosmopolitan group of customers. He'll lead you through the entire process, which includes deciding on an image, size ...

The Luminary

Art  |  Nov 11 2013

... Travelling down the escalators to see `Crystallize', there is an overwhelming sense of descending into a world of frost, of looking out from inside an iceberg. In the atrium, the 'Rainbow Church', a large-scale ...

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Masako Ono: Dance odissi

Performing Arts , Art & Culture  |  Jul 22 2011

... travel to India and see traditional Indian dance at the same time. I also loved the Taj Mahal. Was it a difficult form of dance to study outside India? Yes, it was. This was fifteen ...

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Close encounters with Jad Fair

Art , Music  |  Feb 24 2011

... traveling on tours. I don't like to read books when I'm in a van because there's too much movement. I tried drawing, but my hand was unsteady.' Fair's artistic leanings also ...

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Herbie’s shutter blink

Art  |  Oct 21 2010

... travel around the world and take photos of gentle eyes like these. This was the beginning of my photos. When you printed out the photos did you find that they were really the starting point ...

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Food with primal instincts

Performing Arts  |  Oct 07 2010

... travelling. The taste of your hometown. The taste of another country. More than just a taste, these things are constantly retained in our memories as ideas. Suwa has also given consideration to the power food ...

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Cycling duality and synthesis

Art  |  Jun 25 2010

... travelled to America where he continues to this day to make art. Exhibitions of his work in Japan include an exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Kiyosumi Shirakawa and `The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop ...

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Manga gets a makeover

Art  |  May 31 2010

... Travel' (a diary of a train trip to a destination unknown), and `Niwa' (a miniature garden game with no purpose). One of the most remarkable –and much discussed –aspects about Yokoyama is that ...

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Keith Haring’s poster Heartland

Art  |  Apr 14 2010

... travelling that I heard that Keith Haring had died, Freddy Mercury had as well. It wasn't until then that AIDS and its role in Keith Haring's life took on a sense of reality ...

‘Close Encounters’ lands in Tokyo

Art  |  Nov 25 2009

... traveled extensively and counts culture and social diversity amongst her themes. The bold lines and open collage feel of her work brings a sense of otherworldly futurism to her images that falls in line with ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Art , Music , Performing Arts  |  Sep 17 2009

... travelling from the ground floor up to the fifth floor. Not to be outdone, the halls also have some unusual features - the Middle Hall's UFO-like shape is especially peculiar. Full-scale orchestras play ...

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