Shinji Turner-Yamamoto and 400 million-year-old fossils [read more]

SHIMURABROS. making film without film and opening opening two-dimensionality onto three-dimensionality [read more]

Taiyo Kimura is the proud owner of a humour that is as black as a burnt slab of tar painted in shoe polish at midnight [read more]

Rethinking the Japanese perception of nature on the 52nd floor of a Tokyo skyscraper [read more]

Confined snowfall courtesy of Tokujin Yoshioka [read more]

A labyrinthine painting-sculpture incorporating floating fabric and bare light bulbs by Takefumi Ichikawa [read more]

A new museum on the small, remote island of Teshima in Japan’s Inland Sea by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and artist Rei Naito [read more]

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

Seven installations by contemporary Japanese architects [read more]

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

One day, I meet … Parts 1 + 2, the first works from the collaborative unit Ine wo Ueru hito, are teeming with visual trickery, reconfigured animals and the strangely comforting relentless mundanely of vacuuming [read more]

With new energy and expression being granted to everyday things like floors, furniture and air, the allure of Yukihiro Taguchi’s work is that of the ancient art form of puppetry; making the inanimate animate and creating life from lifelessness [read more]

Besides moss and ferns Takashi Kuribayashi’s other running motifs are seals and penguins, which he often uses in latex form for his instillations where audiences are invited to peer through walls or ceilings into fragments of alternative aquatic worlds [read more]

On the rooftop of an abandoned school near the flashing lights and madness of Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Town, there is a nightly happening comprising kinetic sculpture, balloons, instrumental inventions, light, sound and performance art [read more]

A major retrospective of Kosho Ito’s work was recently held at the Museum of Contemporary At Tokyo, focusing on how he shows that chaos exists inherently in order, and vice versa [read more]

Tatzu Nishi’s homes are finished! The instillations I wrote about several weeks ago are about to open to the public, and the artist will be discussing his work in a free public talk at the AGNSW on October 2 from 1-2.30pm. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is also holding a solo show for him from October 3–24 so we can all get totally Tatzud out. [read more]

Chu Enoki’s public interventions in the ’70s and ’80s shook up the divides between public and private spaces, art and the every day, spectatorship and participation. In more recent years the artist has moved away from body and performance based works towards sculpture and instillation that utilise found objects and materials including weaponry, ammunition and industrial detritus; such as this sci-fi city skyline made from highly polished junk metal bits [read more]

Why bring art to the home when you can bring home to the art? Two new homes are currently being constructed outside the Art Gallery of NSW, swallowing up Gilbert Bayes’ monumental bronze equestrian statues. When they open up at the start of next month visitors will be able to enter via a ramp into a cosy bedroom or living room – perfectly reconstructed with windows, carpets and furnishings – with the larger-than-life hoarse and rider structures protruding out of the floor or bed. The project is the latest from Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi who has been building domestic spaces around public monuments, artworks and streetlights for over a decade. By incorporating familiar, pre-existing structures and images into temporary, intimate domains he literally recontextualises them, forcing us to reconsider the public/private divide. [read more]

Namaiki are graphic designers, club owners, music fiends and arguably the original Guerilla Gardeners [read more]

For his current exhibition at bld gallery in Tokyo, Kenji Yanobe has created an installation of Mini Toyarans, based on his iconic Giant Toyaran sculpture. Part man, part child and in a nuclear suit, Toyaran is modelled on a ventriloquist’s dummy used by Kenji’s father. Running until August 9, the exhibition features a legion of Mini Toyaran. This small army might stand at 10% of the size of their predecessor, but they are 100% as fascinating (and frightening!) [read more]

Paramodal installations are like dioramas gone wild; with electric blue plastic railway worlds, biddy mountain goats and mini-lorries snuggling alongside sarariimen at a sushi bar, obachan scrubbing down in onsens and kawaii kids galore in a school gym [read more]