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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin washed away during typhoon in Japan

Oona McGee
Aug 9, 2021
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Naoshima’s famous art installation badly damaged after unexpected journey out to sea.

Japan
(art • art installation • Naoshima • news • pumpkins • sea • Seto Inland Sea • Typhoon Lupit • typhoons • weather • Yayoi Kusama • yellow pumpkin)

Daiso will help you warp your reflection with a psychedelic infinity mirror for under five bucks!

Katy Kelly
Mar 5, 2020

Japan’s economical provider of weird products does it again, with a battery powered infinity mirror light. Who doesn’t need one of those?

Japan
(100 yen shop • 100 yen store • cool • Daiso • Go Hatori • home • Infinite Mirror • lifestyle • light • optical illusion • Yayoi Kusama)

An island-hopping visit to the Setouchi International Art Festival!

Amy Chavez
Apr 22, 2016

The Setouchi Triennale Art Festival takes place every three years on the art islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea–and this year is a festival year! Let’s check it out!

Culture, Japan
(art • art islands • exhibits • Naoshima • Seto Inland Sea • Setouchi International Art Festival • travel • Yayoi Kusama)

Governor of Tokyo unveils new city logo, internet responds with questions about plagiarism again

Oona McGee
Oct 14, 2015

Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe revealed the capital city’s new logo at a press conference in the nation’s capital on Friday, and the simple design, featuring the one-line catchphrase “&TOKYO”, is already in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

The logo unveiling was met with a heightened level of scrutiny following the plagiarism scandal which resulted in the withdrawal of the official Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo recently, and it turns out that netizens are now worried about a recurrence of events. The distinctive white ampersand enclosed in a circle has been discovered online in a similar black, white and red configuration currently in use by another organisation, an insurance and commercial litigation company in New Zealand.

Japan
(design • logo • Masuzoe • Olympics • Tokyo • Tokyo Governor • tourism • Yayoi Kusama)

Dogo Onsen to exhibit works by famous artists in Japan, let you spend the night in them

Master Blaster
Jan 24, 2014

At Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, 2014 marks the 120th anniversary of the spa’s main building which stands as a notable landmark of the area. It’s a majestic and traditional building that some say was the inspiration for the bathhouse in Spirited Away.

To celebrate, the surrounding area will be hosting a large scale art exhibition in which the Onsen’s main building and at least ten other hotels and inns will be transformed into works by various modern artists. The actual event will run from 10 April to 31 December of this year, but a sneak peak was held from December of last year involving five prominent Japanese artists: Fujio Ishimoto, Yayoi Kusama, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Akira Minagawa, and Araki Nobuyoshi.