ART

San Jose’s skate culture and community are just as distinct as those in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jai Tanju is well-known in the streets of this city. Instead of focusing on his photography alone, I’d like to highlight him as a person; it makes me smile just thinking about it.

The director behind the music video for Kaytranada’s Look Easy ft. Lucky Daye is Xavier Tera, friend of the artist and self-proclaimed fan of Takeshi Kitano. What is Tokyo-based Tera’s vision of Japanese culture?

The Feuerle Collection is a museum in Berlin, where art pieces from China’s dynastic period and Nobuyoshi Araki’s photography coexist. Désiré Feuerle, the founder, talks about the aesthetic beauty of his work and so forth.

In this series, we unravel the words of different intellectuals in regards to post-covid art. For the fifth volume, we invited Shinji Nanzuka, the owner of Nanzuka Underground, which launched on June 5th.

USUGROW’s solo exhibition is currently on view at Shintora Press, a new gallery in Toranomon, until July 10th. The exhibition mainly displays works with a “dance” theme. What was USUGROW feeling and thinking as he made these works?

Tomo Kosuga, an art producer living in Amsterdam, explores photography around the world today in this series of columns. In the sixth installment of this series, he writes about a recent solo exhibition he saw at Photography Museum Foam Amsterdam that unravels “herstory.”

Takahiro Komuro is a prominent artist whose sculptures look like soft vinyl figures at first glance. We present an interview about the catalyst for his work, his process, and the art industry.

Painter Saya Aokabi, who has become the subject of attention both in Japan and abroad, talks about her creations.

The photographs gathered in the “Be Yourself” gallery are curated based on the owner’s sense and intuition. The strong relationship with the artist is emphasized above all else here.

NAGA is an illustrator who incorporates street culture into sceneries from the Edo period. How did he discover his experimental style, and what’s his goal?