If you want to launch a new cross-discipline creative space, you could do worse than invite pop diva Lady Gaga and flamboyant New York-based artist Terence Koh.

On April 20, the media darlings celebrated the opening of Tabloid, a new creative center near Tokyo's Hinode Pier, with a promotional performance for cosmetic company MAC's Viva Glam charity for AIDS. Paired up as GagaKoh, they vamped through a three-song set of Lady Gaga's high-energy numbers, performing in lacy white costumes and dancing around an equally fancied-up piano, all designed by Koh.

While the online universe was abuzz with the performance, the real news for Tokyo was the launch of Tabloid, which would hold its first public party, "Come to the World," on May 11.