Artworks & exhibitions in Asia

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Impressive photos of Tokyo’s Hotaru Firefly festival on Sumida river

Installations, Light Installations / 4 minutes of reading
Fireflies have become a rare sight in Japan. Once they used to glow their low light all over the country in the summer time but now they have become an uncommon sight even in rural areas. Last month 100,000 LED lights floated down through Tokyo’s city centre on the Sumida river mimicking a stream of […]

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What is the Senseless Drawing Bot? Takahiro Yamaguchi & So Kanno

Graffiti, Paintings / 1 minute of reading
The Senseless Drawing Bot by the two Japanese Takahiro Yamaguchi and So Kanno explores the relationship between machine and art and was shown at the exhibition “UTOPIA no OSHIRASE” in Tokyo in October 2011. What the device does The Senseless Drawing Bot is a self-propelling device on a skateboard that sprays abstract linework on a

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Jazoo Yang (양 자주) created these unusual murals in South Korea

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art / 4 minutes of reading
Jazoo Yang is a South Korean artist who lives and works in Beijing and Seoul. She uses her paintings and installations to document others’ solitude, often in interesting ways. Her paintings, which she creates by using brushes or knives, are usually not finished so that the surface becomes the infinite space for her. Yang has

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David Guttenfelder’s remarkable photos of real life in North Korea

Documentary photography, Photography / 5 minutes of reading
North Korea had remained largely off-limits to foreigners for 60 years. When finally, Associated Press wanted to open a bureau in North Korea, it sent its chief photographer, David Guttenfelder, on several trips there. It was an enigma for everyone. The country that had been closed off for such a long time had people curious

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