“On Mosquitoes Human and Other Animals” is the work of artist Beatriz Inglessis in collaboration with three other people: philosopher Suzanne McCullagh, education specialist Renee Jackson and gallery curator Shai Ohayon. The latest show at The Container gallery in Nakameguro, it’s the result of ...

In Yanaka, a 10-minute walk from Nippori Station in Tokyo, a new art center is being constructed in the shell of a 50-year-old house that had been the atelier and residence of students from Tokyo Art University since 2004. Like many buildings of its ...

How do you continually surprise and shock when your work has become so familiar? What can you say with a photograph that hasn’t been said before? Will making things bigger make them better? These questions niggle at the back of the mind while visiting ...

In Johnny Hardstaff’s short film “Transmission,” a group of astronauts training to visit a distant planet are interviewed. Filmed as a viral promotion for Ridley Scott’s recent film “Prometheus,” “Transmission” acts as an introduction to the characters of Scott’s universe, rich in both story ...

The idea of a retrospective makes me nervous. Simply put, it often signals the end of something. So in the case of a designer’s show, a retrospective feels like a parting shot, final note or a bid farewell. Not what you want if your ...

Alejandro Chaskielberg is an Argentinean photojournalist who visits places most of us only read about. His current show at Gallery 916 in the Takeshiba district of Tokyo’s Minato Ward, brings together two photographic series, one from his time in Argentina and the other from ...

Train travel inspires nostalgia. There’s no escaping it. It conjures up memories of childhood — playing beside the rail track at the bottom of the garden or with a miniature railway at home. However, politics and societal change have influenced and produced more controversial ...

Hideki Nakazawa originally studied medicine graduating from the Medical School of Chiba University to work as an ophthalmologist until, in 1990, he decided to work with computer graphics as an illustrator. His experience of art during university and his shift to illustration saw him ...

In the late 1970s, England was in the grips of a recession. Endless trade-union strikes led to power cuts, a “three-day” working week and streets engulfed in uncollected rubbish. What transpired was a massive cultural shift, with history and politics colliding with a youth ...

In Hiroshima the sun is setting on a large retrospective exhibition by one of Japan’s leading graphic designers, who for the past 20 years has been working at the edge of his discipline, carving out a unique niche for himself within a very prescribed ...