Picasso once said, “good artists copy, great artists steal.” Of course, it has never been as simple as that. Questions concerning artistic authenticity, honest or dishonest intentions and outright plagiarism have been around ever since societies began to consider artistic expression the unique product ...

Just a few hours north of Tokyo’s seemingly endless sprawl is the mountainous region of Echigo-Tsumari in Niigata Prefecture. Like so many other rural parts of northern Japan, it is a rugged, isolated, aging and economically stagnant place where elderly men and women can ...

Time and again Western journalists ask superstar Senegalese pop singer Youssou N’Dour, arguably the most successful African musician in history, the same question: Why, despite selling hundreds of thousands of records in the West and collaborating with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Sting, Wyclef ...

Bottom floor of Shibuya’s Sega Gigo game center Runs indefinitely Saturday May 27, the same day as the opening of the massive Africa Remix exhibition at Mori Art Museum, a singular art-intervention-cum-exhibition appeared inside a block of baggage-lockers on the bottom floor of Shibuya’s ...

Everyone has an idea about “Africa.” Pestilence, famine and genocide top many people’s lists. Others think of boundless natural wonder and sprawling metropolises bursting with life. But the truth of it is, there is no one “Africa.” There are only Africans, and they defy ...