ART

Hiroya Kurata is a painter who also restores paintings in New York. “Summer Hours” is his first exhibition in Japan in three years. We spoke to him about his career and art.

Documenta 15 is the 15th installment of Documenta, an art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany. This year, Ruangrupa, an Indonesian collective, curated Documenta 15. Hiroyoshi Tomite reports on the artworks exhibited in Mitte.

Taku Obata, an artist passing down the tradition of B BOYism returns with his large-scale sculpture “B BOY REVENGE 2022.” We approached him about his perspective in an interview.

Skateboarding can be viewed from multiple angles in this age of diversity. What does it look like to you? What exactly is skateboarding? There is probably more than one answer to these questions. Obviously, the answers varies depending on the times and the way it appeals to society. This time, we’ll focus on people who continue to look at and record the most universal aspects of skateboarding.

1972-2022 TOMMAX and Osamu Nagahama: Two Mens’s Okinawa and America, an exhibition of work by the photographer Osamu Nagahama and the contemporary artist Tsutomu Makishi (TOMMAX), was held this year in Okinawa, Japan. We interviewed Osamu Nagahama in Okinawa. This second part focuses on the work exhibited in the show.

An interview with artist SHUN SUDO, whose solo exhibition “Blowin’ in the Wind” was held at elephant studio in Tokyo until July 24.

1972-2022 TOMMAX and Osamu Nagahama: Two Mens’s Okinawa and America, an exhibition of work by the photographer Osamu Nagahama and the contemporary artist Tsutomu Makishi (TOMMAX), was held this year in Okinawa, Japan. We interviewed Osamu Nagahama in Okinawa. In this first part, Nagahama tells us about how the two met, and details his own career as a photographer.

Tomo Kosuga, an art producer living in Amsterdam, explores photography around the world today in this series of columns. In his seventh installment, he reveals the long-veiled, unknown lifetime of Dutch photographer Paul Blanca.

SELF 07 is the latest iteration of an art series held in six different international cities, curated by Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello. We spoke to Takashi Homma, a Magnum Photos guest photographer, about what went into exhibiting his photographs in Tokyo.

Artist Hirotton released his first art book Paradox and held his solo exhibition Eye Beam. We asked him about the influences he still holds dear after 10 years.