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Check out these amazing manhole covers from Japan. The blog, Pink Tentacle, has the most amazing collection I have ever seen. Perfect combination of art, craft, and public policy.

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According to Japan Today, Yoshitomo Nara, a contemporary Japanese pop artist known for sculptures and paintings of doe-eyed figures, was arrested in late February for tagging graffiti in the Union Square subway station, a New York Police Department official said Monday.

Nara was arrested at 3:10 a.m. on Feb 27 and charged with criminal mischief, possession [...]

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I just finished this book, The Housekeeper and the Professor by, Yoko Ogawa. I won’t try and pretend to write a critique or review of the book. I will say that when I picked it up I thought it was going to be a dramatically depressing story - one that had the potential to keep [...]

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Just learned of the upcoming film - Tokyo. It looks really interesting on a number of levels. First, because it has three short stories directed by fantastic artists (see below); second, because the entire question it raises “whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us” is the same question first raised by the 1980’s [...]

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From the Japan Society:
KRAZY!
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery
Friday, March 13 — Sunday, June 14

KRAZY! will be New York’s first major show dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games—three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire [...]

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From MassMOCA:

Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8:00 pm
Club B-10
$10
 
East meets West in this exciting gathering of choreographers who represent some of the brightest rising stars on two continents – Kyle Abraham (New York), Amy O’Neal(Seattle), Kitamari (Kyoto) and Yukio Suzuki (Tokyo). Working at MASS MoCA for a week, their residency will culminate in a vibrant display of movement traditions intersecting to [...]

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