Likely wanderer from Nara Park won’t be going back, but has a new place to live in a hot spring town. Both the business and academic year start in spring…
Nothing and nobody is perfect. Imperfections can be found everywhere. From June 18 to 21, experience how these defects and shortcomings, these imperfections and flaws, can lead to fascinating discoveries…
Koi and coins don’t mix. Oshino Hakkai is an idyllic spot nestled in the Fuji Five Lakes region of Yamanashi Prefecture. Traditional thatched-roof buildings are scattered among eight pristine spring-fed…
When Moffat Takadiwa sees a pile of rubbish—old technology parts, personal care items, clothing—he doesn’t just see a bunch of junk. The Harare, Zimbabwe-based artist has spent the better part…
“Farmer’s Coke” is having a moment in Japan, and surprising people in the U.S. Things are changing rapidly in the online sphere these days, especially on Twitter, where posts and…
Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis’ spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic…