Ari Bayuaji is utterly sincere when he leans in and says, “I'm very lucky to know what my purpose is in this life: to heal other people.”
I don’t get the impression that the 50-year-old Indonesian artist means something so banal as healing people through ... See more
The characters of “Archipelago of the Sun” are only half-aware of where they’re headed; its readers, even less. The final volume of Yoko Tawada’s trilogy concludes the pan-European romp, but offers no neat resolution.
Sixty-five-year-old Tawada, a Tokyo n... See more
The politics of Aichi Triennale are anything but incidental.
In August 2019, the art festival located in the titular prefecture closed one of its exhibits just three days after the event opened. “After Freedom of Expression” had contained, among other wor... See more
Fruit in Japan has a reputation for commanding high prices — ¥10,000 for a fancy melon, or a cool ¥260,000 (about $1,700) for a prized Miyazaki Prefecture-grown “Egg of the Sun” mango. Everyone seems to know about these fruits with their perfectly smooth ... See more
In a quiet neighborhood of Kanazawa, behind a heavy wooden door flanked by rows of filtered glass, a tea ceremony is underway. The smells of cedar, tatami, straw and matcha blend together and curl into the nostrils of the rapt audience. For all its pleasi... See more
