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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Arts Archive
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Paper cutting artist Kroud displays intricate carvings at Artexpo New York
Megan LeePosted on May 8, 2018 | No CommentsKroud overlays black and white paper ‘carvings’ created with a craft knife to put together intricate representations of stag beetles, crabs, monkeys and birds. -
Artist Stone’s “One Buck” sculpture a larger-than-life spectacle
Megan LeePosted on May 3, 2018 | No CommentsStone's "One Buck" - his sole art piece on display at Artexpo 2018 - is a 52” x 120” U.S. one dollar bill that took four-and-a-half months to complete. -
For paper sculpture artist Julia Johnson, it’s all in the finely cut details
Megan LeePosted on May 2, 2018 | No CommentsJulia Johnson adheres cut out pieces of synthetic, tree-free, waterproof paper to a frame to create lotus blossoms, shapes reminiscent of orchid flowers, and other blooms. -
Lady Dior As Seen By – Art Basel Hong Kong 2018
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on April 18, 2018 | No CommentsIn Lady Dior As Seen By, a traveling exhibition that has made stops across the world, the iconic designer handbag is humanized. -
Minimalism and angles at Seoul’s Lotte Museum of Art
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on April 4, 2018 | No CommentsLocated in a quiet corridor of the Lotte World Tower, the opening exhibit by the late American artist Dan Flavin made ample use of the minimalist space. -
Jun Itami’s Bangju Church (방주교회) – Jeju, South Korea
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on January 14, 2018 | No CommentsTranslating in English to "Church of Sky," it is one of several projects helmed by the late architect on the island and was completed in 2009. -
MoMA features 111 iconic pieces in “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
Asya GorovitsPosted on November 13, 2017 | No Comments"Items: Is Fashion Modern?" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York casts a spotlight on a variety of pieces that have stood the test of time. -
Tadao Ando’s Bonte Museum (본태박물관), Jeju, South Korea
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 30, 2017 | No CommentsLike the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the art plays second fiddle to the architecture at the Bonte Museum on Jeju Island. (That's a good thing.) -
Graphic Novel Review: Paper Girls, Vols. 1-2
Rex BaylonPosted on June 17, 2017 | No CommentsPaper Girls is a work of unparalleled beauty that plumbs the depths of teenage ennui to present us with a story of four girls. -
Graphic Novel Review: Monstress, Vol. 1
Rex BaylonPosted on June 17, 2017 | No CommentsMonstress, Vol. 1, is a mature work of fantasy and the steampunk genre. It takes the historical and makes it mythic.