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Unleashing the Museum: Chu Enoki |
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| Christopher Stephens |
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| Frequent visitors to museums are accustomed to being confronted with difficult imagery that a less experienced viewer might find shocking or obscene. While Chu Enoki never resorts to blood and guts, or even a single sex organ, there is something deeply unnerving about his work. more...
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Kohei Sugiura: Multi-Sensory Book Designs that Pulse with the Beat of Asia |
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| Susan Rogers Chikuba |
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| The graphic designer Kohei Sugiura estimates that designs for some 5,000 books have crossed his desk over the 50-plus years of his career. Still more impressive is that this prodigious output has been rendered with a craftsman's care for form, meaning, pleasure, and longevity. more... |
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Salt as Salve for a Wounded Land: Motoi Yamamoto's "White Forests" at the Hakone Open-Air Museum |
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| Alan Gleason |
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| Only an hour by train from Tokyo, Hakone is a popular tourist destination blessed with some unique geology. Perched on the slopes of a huge caldera -- the remains of a volcano, once the size of nearby Mt. Fuji, that collapsed on itself back in the uncharted past -- it is a lushly primordial landscape of hot springs, sulfurous fumaroles, steep ravines, and a lovely crater lake. more... |
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