The World According to Paramodel

Artist unit Paramodel — aka Yusuke Nakano and Yasuhiko Hayashi — has a new show at the Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya entitled “The World According to Paramodel.”

AST Art News Round-up

Here’s another round-up of Japan art news courtesy of Art Space Tokyo, this time covering the month of June.

Art Space Tokyo 2010 Release Party

Tonight (Saturday, July 3) your destination needs to be the Watari-um Museum’s On Sundays bookstore in Gaienmae for the official release party of the updated — and first PRE/POST release — Art Space Tokyo.

Haroshi

When it came to choosing his medium, wood sculptor Haroshi certainly picked a unique one: old broken skakeboard decks.

Skateboard File V: Daisuke Tanaka

Skateboarding needs art as much as it needs skaters. One of the pros and artists operating at the intersection of the two forms is Daisuke Tanaka.

AZITO

Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
www.azito-art.com

Sister's House in Tsukuba

“Shimai no Ie Tsukuba” (Sister’s House in Tsukuba), as spotted on FFFFOUND.

PRE/POST Editions

Tokyo-based designer and essayist Craig Mod has been teasing his post-Chin Music Press publishing project for a while now, and the result has finally been announced: PRE/POST Editions.

AST Art News Round-up

The Art Space Tokyo blog brings us another art news round-up, this time for Japan art-related articles published in May.

Lullatone Spinning Mobile Kit

Nagoya-based Lullatone has teamed up with ManuMobiles to produce a hand-made spinning mobile kit.

Bread Palette

Ryohei Yoshiyuki’s Bread Palette is exactly what it sounds like it should be, a painters palette made from a slice of bread.

Design Festa Vol. 31

The latest edition of Design Festa (Vol. 31) — “Asia’s biggest freestyle art expo” — happens this coming weekend (May 15-16) at Tokyo Big Sight.