Yukihiro Taguchi finds a dark to stick the light in [read more]

Fashion as theatre and Japan’s oldest department store [read more]

Seven installations by contemporary Japanese architects [read more]

Hiroshi Naito’s architecture of light [read more]

When Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono are not busy building buildings they photograph buildings others have built [read more]

Nakaya Fujiko’s long-term relationship with artificial fog [read more]

Hiroshi Sugimoto seeing with ancient eyes [read more]

A new photography museum designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the foothills of Mt Fuji [read more]

“There are many copy bands, but I am the best,” says Aikawa Masaru [read more]

The Biennale of Sydney has just opened and the amazing Superdeluxe program at Artspace kicks off this week with OORUTAICHI, bringing his ‘progressive drifting folklore music’, own invented language and penchant for primary colours all the way from Osaka to Woolloomooloo [read more]

Yoshikazu Yamagata on fashion as communication [read more]

Leiko Shiga’s brother in his boxer shorts learning to play piano, sans piano [read more]

With his unique brand of uncomfortable hilarity, Tatsumi Orimoto’s Oil Can will be performed in Sydney this May [read more]

The Setouchi International Arts Festival is taking over the Inland Sea this summer [read more]

Spoken Words Project unveiling the 2010 AW collection [read more]

Inching ever closer to cyborgism, Daito Manabe believes there is no difference between man and machine [read more]

Yuichiro Tamura tells found stories with screen grabs from Google Maps Street View [read more]

Kisho Kurokawa’s 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, the world’s first large-scale modular building, is still standing – but only thanks to Japan’s current financial malaise [read more]

Shiga Leiko’s images reconsider the medium of photography a distorter, rather than documenter, of reality [read more]

Carrying a simple message of eco-awareness, Teruya Yuken’s Notice Forest series locates and revives trees from within disposable paper bags [read more]

Mamoru Okuno shows us the sounds we hear all the time but never listen to [read more]

Out of consideration for the pristine landscape of Naoshima, Tadao Ando completely submerged his building for the Chichu Museum [read more]

Masks by Yoshikazu Yamagata of writtenafterwards photographed by Hedi Slimane for Dazed & Confused Japan [read more]

Modernism’s doctrine of functionalism put the ornamental in a corner and spat at it, but apparently the decorative is making a quiet comeback [read more]

Shinro Ohtake’s psychedelic sentō aims to reinvigorate the culture of public bathing and connect Naoshima’s local residents with the island’s ever increasing influx of visitors [read more]

Having explored the temporal through the medium of photography for over three decades, Hiroshi Sugimoto has concluded that time is an exclusively human construct, which no other animal has any sense of [read more]

The prolific director / actor / film editor / stand-up comedian / TV presenter / author / poet / painter / sculptor / videogame designer / general no good layabout Beat Takeshi Kitano has taken over the Fondation Cartier in Paris [read more]

Apparently mortality happens because people live in spaces that are too comfortable. Arakawa & Gins’ solution is to make buildings that leave people disoriented, alert, challenged and active, enabling them to ‘counteract the usual human destiny of having to die’ [read more]

Eyeball the AW10 collections by the big-gun Japanese designers who presented at Paris Fashion Week [read more]

Fuyuki Yamakawa is an ‘avant-garde khoomei singer’ and performance/installation artist who works with bare light bulbs, yogic breath, medical equipment, modified musical instruments and the amplified sound of his heartbeat [read more]