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  • Tokyo Art Map

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    You should start noticing the TAB-produced (design by AQ) bilingual Tokyo Art Map around the city. Planned as a bi-monthly series, the first release focuses on Marunouchi Art Weeks, but all areas of the city get covered, so get your hands on one as soon as possible. Update: Paul Baron talks more about the new map…

  • More from Yoshioka for Swarovski

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    Dezeen posts additional photos of Tokujin Yoshioka‘s work on the new Swarovski Ginza store, that opened this week. Yoshioka will also be contributing to Swarovski’s installation at the Milano Salone later this month.

  • TABlog: Art Fair Tokyo

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    Ashley Rawlings interviews Misa Shin, Executive Director of Art Fair Tokyo 2005 (this year’s edition takes place this weekend), on TABlog. The interview is an excerpt from Chin Music Press’ ART SPACE TOKYO, which goes on sale next week. Tonight I’m heading to the opening of the 101TOKYO art fair. Can’t wait! Update: And here’s a…

  • Bookoff Offers to Pay Manga Creators

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    As reported by Anime News Network: Bookoff Corporation, Japan’s largest used bookstore chain, has reportedly offered to pay 100 million yen (about US$1 million) to the Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century, The Japan Writers’ Association, and other creators’ associations. According to the newspapers who first learned of this offer on March…

  • ABSENT CAFE

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    Head to the Marunouchi Building to check out Assistant‘s Megumi Matsubara and Hiroi Ariyama’s “ABSENT CAFE” installation, part of “Marunouchi Art Weeks 2008. For Marunouchi Art Weeks, Megumi Matsubara & Hiroi Ariyama (assistant) present “ABSENT CAFE”, an installation mutating a cafe in MarunouchiBuilding into ambiguous absence using a special kind of film. The installation is…

  • Nakano at Cafe Pause

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    Here’s a reminder that Yuki Nakano‘s photo exhibition is now on at Cafe Pause, running until April 6. Following that, it will be the Speakerdog show.

  • New Tokyo Contemporaries

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    I made it to four openings/parties last night, but not to the one for the “New Tokyo Contemporaries” show at the Shin-Marunouchi Building (because I didn’t get an invitation). Ashley Rawlings did, and he posts a few photos on TABlog.

  • Edible Tableware

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    The ultimate in LOHAS! Nobuhiko Aikawa of Rice-Design creates edible tableware for a cafe. Via Dezeen.

  • TAB Talks #3

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    I had a chance to go to last night’s TAB Talks (#3) at the Gotanda Sonic event space. It featured three French creators (Gwenael Nicolas, Audrey Fondecave, and Jerome Senaillat) talking about their work and life in Tokyo.

  • This Week in Cycling

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    I know, I know, it’s such a cliché to put up photos of the cherry blossoms in full bloom at this time of the year, but I finally made it out for a quick bike run today on my regular route alongside Kanda river, and it really was an amazing sight. You can see more…