“Art Brut Japonais” exhibition will start on March 24th (until January 2nd 2011) at La halle saint pierre museum in Paris. 63 Japanese pop artists will exhibit their work. Part of the exhibition will be shown at Spirit Art Museum.

By putting a pot on “Fire pot stand”, it would look like a pot on fire. This product was designed by NIMI (Takuya Nimi, and Yuki Nimi).  They say that they saw “the close connection” between a pot and fire, and thought that it would be a good idea to develop “fire shaped pot stand”. […]

  Shuichiro Yoshida Architects designed a toilet space in Chikusei, Japan.

Here is the press release by the architect office.
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Tokinokura lavatories Shimodate
The project is located in Chikusei City in Ibaraki Prefecture, approximately 60km north-east from Tokyo in Japan. In this region, there are historical storage buildings of stone since early 20th century, although the most of […]

Motohiko Odani’s solo exhibition has started at Maison Hermes in Ginza, Tokyo. Odani was born in Kyoto and currently based in Tokyo. He represented Japanese artists at Venice Biennal in 2003.
His theme is  to “Express the dynamism surrounding our bodies”. It shows a feeling of pain and its change. The new work exhibited now shows […]

Yebis International Festival for Art & Alternative visions started on February 19th. The following is work by Takayuki Fujimoto, titled “Time Lapse Plant”.

“PechaKucha Night”, which was originally started in Japan, now has a network that covers 280 cities around the world. “PechaKucha”They decided to organize a charity event “Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti” and raise money for donation on February 20th, 2010. By using Ustream, each city will give a 10 minute presentation. The entrance fee […]

“A large air person” , digital public art was exhibited at Haneda airport terminal 2 last year. It shows the existence and flow of air by turn air into the shape of human beings. Currently, “A large air person” has been exhibited at the Tokyo modern museum.

Takashimaya Shopping Mall in Tamagawa, Tokyo has been renovated by architect Kengo Kuma. This shopping mall was originally built in 1969.

Japanese designer Hisakazu Shimizu will show his work at an art gallery @btf in Katsudoki, Tokyo between January 22nd to February 28th.
Here is the summery of the press release.
WHY DO WE NEED HAIRS ON MIRRORS?
-BECAUSE WE USE MIRRORS TO CHECK OUR HAIR STYLES.
We use mirrors to check our hair styles. We want to make sure […]

Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki designed “White noise machine” in Delhi, India. This machine calculates the quantity of street noise and generate the same amount of “white noise”.