There are few places more remote. I wander along an overgrown path humming with birds and lined with rice fields before finding myself in front of a house on a small beach. As if on cue, a woman with a blank face and a ...

A ballerina stands lightly en pointe in a monochrome photograph, feet arched to perfection and a hand stretched toward the sky. Another dancer mid-arabesque raises her back leg gracefully. A third is frozen leaping through the air with legs stretched into a perfect straight ...

Sixteen years ago, the Boutenkos were a family in crisis. Mother Victoria was overweight and depressed. Her husband, Sergei, had arthritis. Their teenage son was battling diabetes, while their daughter suffered from asthma. Fast-forward to 2010, and the Boutenko family is virtually unrecognizable: All ...

NADiff ClosesApril 25 Forget a diary with words. Instead, picture a cloudless sky, an empty street and a snow-filled forest. A year in the life of American artist Taylor Deupree is displayed in a new exhibition at NADiff in Ebisu, with one Polaroid snap ...

Beneath a hazy moon, a party is in full swing at a mountainside terrace overlooking the endless twinkling lights of a city that may or may not be Los Angeles. Barbecues are glowing, music is playing and bottles are emptying. But revelers are not ...

A naked mother radiates maternal happiness as she beams at the camera with her peachy-skinned wide-eyed baby clasped to her chest. Nearby, piercing blue eyes and oddly elongated ears frame a face attached to a wooden body with women’s breasts and a solitary truncated ...

I slip a red dress over my head. The silhouette is fashionably curved, the fabric luxuriously soft and the hemline festooned with small red bobbles. But this is no ordinary fashion frock: Upon closer inspection, it is the sartorial equivalent of a tongue. Food ...

Yuka Sasahara Gallery Dec. 26 A photograph without a camera: The concept may sound as naked as a table without legs. But the creation of images using photographic techniques without an actual camera is the focal point of a new exhibition by artist Saori ...

Giant chairs, floating clouds and abstract boxes: forget anything as commercial as wanting to sell a product. Hordes of creatives from all four corners of the globe are this week descending on Tokyo for the city’s annual Designers Week. And firmly rooted at the ...

A scarlet fish head, the silhouette of a tree and a burned-out hole surrounded by scribbled thoughts may at first sight appear to inhabit different worlds. But upon closer inspection, the starting point for all these creations is the same: a pristine white notepad. ...

‘This is the maximum number of people that should ever come in here,” says Kengo Kuma, glancing toward a small group of people murmuring quietly in front of a nearby Buddha statue. “It’s much nicer when it’s empty.” The presence of people may have ...

Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo Closes Nov. 8 The two naked women possess endless limbs and long blond hair — but there ends any similarity with conventional ideals of feminine beauty. For their bodies are crowned not with pretty faces but pointy green masks from ...