Japan

How Lorraine Hansberry’s Self-Portrait Taught Me To Remake Myself Through Art

The Anecdote
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The Light Fantastic: Rinko Kawauchi’s Illuminance Still Shines on its 10th Anniversary

Art Living
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Living Sculpture: Isamu Noguchi’s Spider Dress Springs to Life

Culture
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Caught in the Act: Shōmei Tōmatsu’s Dizzying Shot of Student Protest

Culture
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Tokyo Drift: What Hides Behind the Neon Glare of the Japanese Metropolis?

The Index
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Elephant’s Pick of June’s Essential Artists

The Index
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How the Cute Aesthetic of Miniature Food Became Big Business

Culture
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This Photographer Captures the Beauty of an Unusual Japanese Textile

Culture
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Cock and Balls? These Artists Interrogate What It Means to Be a Man

Culture
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This Lazy Egg Is the Mascot of the Millennial Burnout Generation

Culture
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Liam Wong Captures the Cinematic Essence of Tokyo

Art Living
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R.I.P. Toshio Saeki, Legendary Artist of the Erotic Underground

The Index
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Why We Need Collectives Now More Than Ever

The Index
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The Moomins: Unflinching Reality in Children’s Stories

Culture
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The “Ripe” Female Artist Making the Menopause Sexy with Selfies

SEX/ART
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Horisho Sugimoto, N. Pacific Ocean, Ohkurosaki, 2013

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Piercing the Shadows

Culture
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Elmgreen & Dragset, Queer Bar/Powerless Structures, Fig. 221. Created for a solo show at Galerie Perrotin. Photography: Jean-Pacôme Dedieu

Why do Artists Want to Get Us Drunk?

The Index
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Hideka Tonomura, Die of Love, 2018

In the Throes of Love with Hideka Tonomura

Art Living
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Chim↑Pom: “Radiation is leaking! YEAH!”

The Index
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Izima Kaoru, Otsuka Nene Wears Tuzigahana #214, 1999. Courtesy the artist. © Izima Kaoru

Ravens & Red Lipstick Lifts the Lid on Japanese Photography Since 1945

Art Living
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Yoshitomo Nara’s Lessons in Clay

The Index
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Coda: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Environmental Quest

The Index
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Toshio Saeki: Beauty without Poison is Boring

The Index
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Toshio Saeki: Folklore, Fantasy and Fornication

The Index
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