Category: City Life

  • OK FRED Corner at Kinokuniya

    If you head to the Minami-Shinjuku branch of the Kinokuniya, you’ll notice a special corner they’ve set up for OK FRED and its editor, Yoshihito Tsujimura, which includes book selections by him. It goes on until the end of the month. Update: More info (in Japanese) on Yoshi’s picks.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    Hysteric Glamour Roppongi Hills Geisai 10 You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Cow Parade Tokyo

    I haven’t made it out to Marunouchi yet to see the “Cow Parade Tokyo” event/exhibition, but Patrick has, and he has plenty of pics to share.

  • Designboom Mart

    Looks like Designboom will be bringing back their “Mart” retail space to this year’s edition of 100% Design Tokyo (October 31 – November 5). Here are some images from last year’s showing.

  • DIVVY/dual Project

    Tokyo Art Beat is about to get pro-active, and go a step beyond just covering the Tokyo art scene. This month will see the launch of their “DIVVY/dual Project” with the “Type-Trace” exhibition. DIVVY/dual Project #1 is the first edition of a new series of events aimed at building a platform to re-connect the different…

  • TAB Interviews Takashi Murakami

    Tokyo Art Beat interviews Takashi Murakami, regarding next week’s 10th edition of GEISAI (September 17) — Murakami is president and creator of the event.

  • Hybrid/So+Ba Gallery

    I’m late on posting about the opening party, but I think it’s still worth mentioning that Creative Hybrid and So+Ba have just opened a new gallery/studio space out in Setagaya (5-29-20 Kyodo, 03-3706-2360). If the opening exhibition, “Oishii,” is anything to go by, it should make for a new interesting stop on the city’s gallery…

  • Nudie Cafe

    The Swedish Style event that I’ll be organizing this year at the cafe with Jesper is starting to come together. Nudie Cafe — a collaboration with Swedish fashion brand Nudie Jeans — will again take over the regular space during the first two weeks of November, with PMKFA creating various installations, and other surprises as…