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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
S ometimes the cutting-edge is five years old. Take the current exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, “The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.” Featuring some of the best of what the contemporary art world has to offer, by the time it’s made it ...
Ota Fine Arts A bucket and a mop and a ramshackle assortment of fans and lights — all sprawled across the floor and ceiling of Ota Fine Arts in east Tokyo’s Kachidoki area (www.ota.finearts.com) — lie dormant. Flick several switches, though, and a chaotic ...
“I love contemporary art, I like a lot of conceptual art. I’ve followed it for years, endlessly. I mean where do you want to start really?” asks Andy Summers in an interview conducted last week. “I spent quite a few years painting and all ...
In September last year, Anglo- Japanese painter Peter McDonald won the U.K.’s £25,000 John Moores prize for contemporary painting with a work, “Fontana,” that depicted in simplistic shapes an artist thrusting a knife into a circular canvas. Or it could be someone attacking a ...
“If we live in a creative universe, we are constantly pushing the chaos out of the way to protect ourselves from the nonlogical — the natural,” muses Vik Muniz at an interview late last year at Tokyo Wonder Site. “Even when you think, you ...
Egypt may be known for its history, but this week in Tokyo some of its most advanced cultural technology will be on display. The Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage is touring Japan with CULTURAMA, a semi- circular set of screens ...
Japan is hosting a carnival of events to celebrate 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil this year, but Jacqueline Montagu has been promoting ties between the South American nation and Asia for more than two decades. A longtime collector of Brazilian art, the ...
Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya Closes October 13 For the past two years, the municipal government-sponsored Tokyo Wonder Site (www.tokyo-ws.org) has been offering a residency program in Aoyama that gives foreign and Japanese artists the opportunity to interact with each other right in the heart ...
Zaim is dirty. The floor is scuffed, the windows old, the building a strange maze of rooms with low ceilings. Compared to the slick show on a couple blocks away at this year’s Yokohama Triennale, the exhibition space that used to be a government ...
Gallery Hashimoto Closes Sept. 27 This past weekend, the 11th version of Geisai, Takashi Murakami’s art spectacle, attracted nearly 1,000 young artists who assembled their own stalls in Odaiba’s Tokyo Big Sight, home of the similar DesignFesta. While there was a lot to see, ...
Niigata grannies munching on bento lunch boxes, tattooed Tokyo roughnecks pounding beers, an ex-military man in from London with two Shanghaiese kung-fu sisters: taiko (Japanese drum) troupe Kodo’s annual Earth Celebration on Sado Island this past weekend drew an eclectic crowd. This year the ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Closes Sept. 28 Someone recently told me they find it hard to think in the Tokyo summer heat. In the cool of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo’s current exhibition, “Parallel Worlds,” they won’t have to while perusing this ...