Celebrating the grand opening of online gallery and select shop, Salone Aoyama, limited one-week real shop event will be held at Gallery Dojunkai.

Works by emerging artists are on display. vol.145 April 28th (Mon) - May 11th (Sun) Chisato Fujita (Ceramic) vol.146 March 13th (Tue) - March 25th (Sun) Iracu (Bag, small works) vol.147 March 26th (Mon) - June 8th (Sun) Tomomi Kawakami (Glass) vol.148 June 9th (Mon) - June 22nd (Sun) Salon de Pink (Bag) vol.149 June 23rd (Mon) - July 6th (Sun) Miki Inoue (Glass) vol.150 July 7th (Mon) - July 21st (Sun) Kazumi Yoshimura (Ceramic)

After succeeding in becoming the latest craze, Kayo Ume (aka Ume-chan) is coming back to Little More Chika! Theme of this exhibition is "Mr. Granpa". When Ume started taking photos as a high school student, her first subject was her granpa sitting right in front of her. Growing up in snow-filled former Yanagida Village (Ishikawa prefecture) with her parents and grandparents, Ume still visits her granpa in her hometown and records his life whenever time allows. Celebrating the launch of her photo book with the same title, this exhibition showcases portraits of Ume family. Related events -Artist Talk -Kayo Ume × Shin Sobue (designer) Date & Time: July 4th (Fri) 19:30 (doors open at 19:00) -Slide Show & Autograph Session Date & Time: July 18th (Fri) 19:30 (doors open at 19:00) Fee: ¥500 Capacity: 40 people (reservation required) Reservation starts on June 10th (Tue) Contact: 03-3401-1042 (Little More Chica) Weekdays 10:00-18:00 Please visit the venue website for more details.

Kazumi Yoshimura visualizes colors seen in nature through her ceramic works. The forms of these vessels fit nicely in your hand, bringing a sort of everyday contentment to the user.

Dates & Times July 16th (Wed) 16:00-18:00 July 17th (Thur)-20th (Sun) 12:00-18:00 July 21st (Mon) 12:00-16:00

Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in Asia started in 1992. Outstanding films dealing with sexuality and gender issues are on screen. Please refer to the official website of the film festival for details. The film festival first starts at Shinjuku Wald 9, screening between July 11th (Fri) - 13th (Sun).

July 13th (Sun)-July 17th (Thu) [W:1-A] Teketekebia "Kijinhenjin Daikyouun" Illustration July 15th (Tue)-July 18th (Fri)[E:201 202] Magnet "2008 A/W" Fashion July 16th (Wed)-July 18th (Fri) [W:2-C] Deekei & Wacwac "Perorinpoi" 2 Artists: Painting and 3D object July 17th (Thu)-July 19th (Sat) [W:2-A] International Culture School Fashion Course "Nothing" Makeup July 18th (Fri)-July 20th (Sun) [W:1-A] Tomomi Miyahara "Anoko wo Umeta Atode.." Illustration July 18th (Fri)-July 20th (Sun) [E:102] Piroko Univers Fashion July 19th (Sat)-July 20th (Sun) [W:1-C] Will Send Later Painting, Multimedia and Installation July 19th (Sat)-July 20th (Sun) [E:301] Gas "Summer Exhibition 2008 -Mix Colors" Group: Illustration and Graphic Design July 19th (Sat)-July 21st (Mon) [W:1-B] Yuko "Kawaii" Illustration July 19th (Sat)-July 21st (Mon) [W:1-F] Love Chookje Group: Photography, Film Screening, DJ and Sweets July 19th (Sat)-July 21st (Mon) [W:1-G] Kodachi Miroku Illustration, Photography and Graphic Design July 19th (Sat)-July 21st (Mon) [W:2-B] Analog Complex "Bamboo Princess" Group: Space Art [Image: Gas "Summer Exhibition 2008 -Mix Colors"]

This is the third edition of the exhibition series, "Colors", taking monochrome as the theme. For this exhibition, 25 illustrators created works using black on white background.

Opening Party: July 18th (Fri) 18:00-20:00

The artist will be at the venue on July 17th, 18th and 26th.

While Kohei Asakura has been working mainly on canvas, this 2nd exhibition centers around his silkscreen prints colorfully depicting nature, animals and the earth that embrace them. "This exhibition's title 'hasshagenia', meaning eternal gift, is language used by native peoples of Alaska. By employing 'tree', an element existing in the cycle of nature, as basic motif of my work, messages carried within the work become something eternal just as a tree returning to the soil," says Asakura. With Asakura's uniquely soft employment of media, magical composition and balanced usage of colors, the dignity of his rather realistic subject matters taken from the contemporary world, where production and consumption seems to continue eternally, will speak to viewers' minds at an unconscious level. Reception Party: July 20th (Sat) 19:00-22:00

Many Edo-era ceremonies and events, such as religious festivals and unveilings of Buddhist effigies, were originally established as demonstrations of faith and devotion, but in fact it is now thought that these events had more of a ludic or hedonistic character to them. Embarking on extraordinary voyages and pilgrimages to Mount Fuji, Enoshima, Ise Shrine or the Kumbhira (seafaring deity) in Sanuki. These aspirations, displays of devotion and acts of faith were depicted in ukiyo-e woodblock prints, which also contained depictions of omamori and gankake, lucky charms and prayer items. This exhibition shows the ways in which the everyday lives of people were intimately entwined with acts of faith and devotion, a world of prayers and charms portrayed in the work of artists like Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro and Kunisada. In addition, written oracles (omikuji) and paper lanterns will be given their own special display in the galleries for the duration of the exhibition.

In this exhibition, Shibuya reconstructs various motifs using unique surfaces and straight lines. One year since his last solo exhibition, "Construct", these "Shibuya Zoo" works have been developed using living creatures his newly-adopted motif. Shibuya creates his own original "zoo" with all the usual animals, but also uses extinct animals and extremely-evolved futuristic, robot-like animals. Animals that issue from his brush are active and full of hope. Shibuya's imagination runs through the history of living thing and shows us not only animals but also insects and dinosaurs on his canvas, enjoying a privileged international reputation, especially in Europe. Opening Reception: July 4th (Fri) 19:00-21:00

Paul Smith Space Gallery is holding a collaborative exhibition with Cocolo Ukes called "Paul Smith x Cocolo Ukes" from July 19th-31st. The works will be on sale also. In addition, two live performances are scheduled during the exhibition period: July 20th (Sun) 16:30- July 27th (Sun) 16:30- Art Book Sale Starting July 1st, there will be a sale mostly of art books at the book corner of the first floor of Paul Smith Space, with up to 50% off.

void+ is showcasing Mario Tauchi's Psyche-ga-delic 2008 exhibition from July 18th to July 31st. Tauchi has been creating mandala paintings in various media and also collaborating with musicians, visual artists and other specialists, improvising mandala paintings live. At void+alternative, he will be collaborating with guitarist cloudchair (aka Jake/ Masatomo Kawase), and a chef specializing in spices, det2, to create a unique Mandala, while exploring the transformation that happens when his inner self meets an external entity. Event Schedule July 18th (Fri) 19:00- Panel Discussion "Artists and Self-management" -Roland Kelts（writer, rector at Tokyo University） -Haruka Ito（research associate at Kyoto University of Art and Design, research center for editorial studies, gallery manager of magical, Artroom） -Tadasuke Iwanaga（Artist） -Mario Tauchi（Artist） Fee: ¥500 July 19th (Sat), doors open 19:00, start 19:30 Guitar and Live Painting: Ambient session #1 Featuring: Mario Mandala/ cloudchair Fee: ¥2000 *Reservation by email required for this event July 22nd (Tue), doors open 19:00, start 19:30 Live Curry Cooking flavored with Mario Mandala Featuring: Mario Mandala/ det2 Fee ¥2000 July 25th (Fri), doors open 19:00, start 19:30 Guitar and Live Painting: Ambient session #2 Featuring: Mario Mandala/cloudchair + α Fee: ¥2000 *Reservation by email required for this event

Opening Reception: July 18th (Fri) 18:00-21:00 *There will be northern European food and drinks at the reception.

Born in 1955, New York, Roni Horn studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. Horn began her art practice in 1975, creating minimalist-influenced conceptual sculptures, and in the 90s, her work became more focused on photography. "I move through language to arrive at the visual," says Horn. Through a wide range of mediums like photography, installation, drawing, and text, she creates complex relationships between the viewer and her work, highlighting our senses of time and place, experience, existence, memory, and identity. "This is Me, This is You," the work showcased in this exhibition is a series of portraits of Horn's niece, Georgia Loy, photographed between 1988 and 2000. A grid of 48 photographs of Georgia occupies a wall space, revealing the girl's various expressions changing throughout time. On the opposite side, another set of photographs are mounted like a mirroring image. These two grids are almost identical at first glance, but there is a few seconds of time lag in between each photographs on the corresponding positions. Horn believes that viewers complete her work. When viewers enter into the space and face the work, and slowly start to realize those two groups are not the same, her work enters its final stage. Opening Reception: June 20th (Fri) 19:00-21:00 [Image: "This is Me, This is You" (detail) (1998-2000)]

Galerie Doux Dimanche's familiar creator from Paris, Anne Hubert has brought her new work that pleasantly showcases this summer. Hubert has been active as textile designer for "La Cerise Sur le Gateau". While fabrics with her feminine, charming designs have gained much popularity, she also proposes in her book "Customiser" the enjoyment in hand-making and customizing simple T-shirts, linen items, etc. Her new collection includes not only feminine but also cool and modern motifs. Taking its theme on "white summer", this exhibition introduces everyday-use items with her sophisticated designs.

An installation that invites the audience to actively investigate and in some ways participate in a frozen hyperreality. This is the first solo exhibition in Japan by the remarkable installation artist Mark Jenkins. Also not to be missed is Miho Kinomura's film about the making of Jenkins' work.

In Ayako Maruta's installations, arches and pillars, which were were used to form spaces in classical architecture, are created with construction cable and industrial lampshades. Rather than create arches supported from the ground, they are instead suspended from the ceiling or supported by a single pillar. Murata's works use industrial cables and lampshades that are normally used at construction sites. She also uses denim with an aged, vintage look. This new uses of common materials can create a new sense of aesthetics.

Gallery White Room Tokyo is pleased to announce The Chance is Higher, a solo exhibition of photographer Ari Marcopoulos. The exhibition presents a new series of large-scale photocopied photographs. Marcopoulos has captured urban life through an intimate lens: in the 1980s and '90s, his chronicling of New York subcultures and hard-edged youth portrayed with poetic contrast became rage of the times. He captured the emergence of resistance movements, the world of hip hop and skateboarding, and iconic artists, such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons, in the same ease as the striking portraits of his own family and surroundings. In The Chance is Higher, Marcopoulos’ photographs are treated through photocopying, altering their size and contrast, and exploring the ephemeral, evoking the memory of lost instants. In this new body of work Marcopoulos brings together portraits of his family, of skaters and graffiti artists who transform their urban surroundings, and of the city itself. He explores the strange beauty always inherent to loved ones, to youth, to their bodies, however scratched up or bruised. His work here further blurs the relationship between the photographer and his subjects. The images are personal and autobiographical, but do not strive to be candid or unconcerned with a particular moment. Opening Reception with the artist: June 13th (Fri) 19:00-21:30

Kamawanu's tenugui, Japanese hand towel made of cotton holds their store at Sprial for a limited time only. They introduce colorful tenugui for various occasions such as at a bar, lunchtime, and market.

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the museum, this exhibition sheds light on Taro Okamoto's "Tower of the Sun," a monument created for the Japan World Exposition held in 1970. The work symbolizes "the progress and harmony of human beings." Okamoto wanted to build something extremely "absurd" that stood out in the expo crowded with modernist pavilions. This idea of a "festival" transcending any nationality, race, or language barriers was prominent in the monument. The tower contains "Tree of Life" which illustrates the growth of humanity. Also, the internal space is divided into parts, each of which represent the past, present, and future, unfolding the dynamism of life, which has always existed around us. The monument is an ultimate compilation of Okamoto's philosophy and theory of art. This exhibition introduces everything about the "Tower of the Sun" through video documentation, along with Okamoto's sketches and writings. Please see the museum website for more details.

1. Opening Talk April 26th (Sat) 17:00-18:00 Speaker: Fabrice Hyber Hyber will speak about the exhibition theme of "growing seeds," his recent activities, as well as the farms he has helped to build in Vendée. Fee: ¥1500 (Watari-Um museum supporters and members free) 2. "Seed and Grow" exhibition talk 1st session: May 17th (Sat) 19:00-21:00 "The 21st century is the age of farming" Speaker: Isoya Shinji (Tokyo Agricultural University) Agriculturalization of our cities. Coexistence of humans and nature. 2nd session: June 21st (Sat) "Where will we go to live? Urban agriculture" Speaker: Yoshitaka Shiraishi (Shirashi Farm) Runs the experiential farm "Kaze no Kakko" in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. Conducts activities linking the local people to each other through farming and agriculture. Shiraishi will speak about the importance of local farming and procurement of ingredients. "In Search of the original 'Farm'" Speaker: Shinji Abe (Tsubura Farm) Born in Tokyo and raised in Yokohama, Abe will talk about how he got acquainted with farming despite an urban, salaryman existence. 3rd session: July 5th (Sat) "About Tokyo today" Speaker: Michihiko Yanai (creative director) Established "Kaze to Rokku" in 2003 after working in advertising. A practiced copywriter, Yanai will speak on the future of Tokyo. Fee: ¥2000 per talk (Watari-Um Museum supporters ¥1000, normal members ¥1600) Season pass for all three talks: ¥4800 (Watari-Um Museum supporters ¥2400, normal members ¥3840) 3. "Lunch in a vegetable field" tour July 21st (Mon, national holiday) Speaker: Yoshitaka Shiraishi (Shiraishi farm) Visit to Shiraishi's "Wind School" experiential farm. First-hand experience of how vegetables are grown. The tour will conclude with a delicious vegetable lunch. Fee: ¥2500 + lunch fee (about ¥1800), limited to 28 people. August 8th (Fri) 19:00-21:00 "Bees are our bridge to nature" Speaker: Mitsuo Matsuka (Tamgawa University) Bees visit flowers, gathering pollen and making hives. From bees and royal jelly gathered from hive boxes, this talk introduces this living agricultural product. Fee: ¥800 (Watari-Um Museum supporters ¥400, normal members ¥640) *Please see website for details on attending.

Group of photographs taken for my previous 2 solo exhibitions "Here, Now, Always" (2004), and "Dark Room" (2005), led me to challenge this new exhibition "Atlas", which is still in progress. "Atlas" is composed of photographs all taken in the premises of my house. My camera captured each moment of shifting seasons at dawn, in daylight and around sunset, from both inside and outside of the house. I hope my work serves as "atlas", which speaks for something divorced from human values. On display alongside "Atlas" work are several pieces from previous 2 exhibitions. -Junko Ikawa

In Fujimori's atelier, there are always numerous models of furniture he designs. Study models, presentation models, full-size models... this exhibition features these models in various scales.

July 21st (Mon)-July 27th (Sun) [W:1-A] David Wang Painting and Illustration July 21st (Mon)-July 27th (Sun) [W:2-A] Ikue Furuichi Exhibition Painting July 23rd (Wed)-July 25th (Fri) [W:1-G] Broccoli & Co "New Product Public Relations." 2 Artists: Installatiuon, Art Book and Product Design July 24th (Thu)-July 26th (Sat) [W:2-B 2-C] Japan Women's University Nishiikuta Photo Club Group: Photography July 25th (Fri)-July 27th (Sun) [E:202] Temple University Japan "Tokyo Stories Summer 2008" Group: Photography, Multimedia [Image: Broccoli & Co "New Product Public Relations."]

Two person exhibition of nihon-ga.

Opening Party: July 22nd, 19:00-21:00

July 27th (Sun)-July 29th (Tue) [W:1-B] Shabu "Oretachiwa Kokoniiru" Group: Painting and Photography July 27th (Sun)-August 2nd (Sat) [W:2-B] Gosado "010" Group: Graphic Design and Photography July 28th (Mon)-July 30th (Wed) [E:101 102] Person's Golf 2009 SS Exhibition Fashion July 29th (Tue)-July 31st (Thu) [W:1-G] Kamatagumi "ARC" 2 Artists: Painting, Illustration and Graphic Design July 30th (Wed)-August 1st (Fri) [E:304] Yuginro Painting and Performance July 31st (Thu)-August 6th (Wed) [W:2-C] Ned Girls Group: 3D, Graphic Design, Photography, Film Screening and Multimedia August 1st (Fri)-August 3rd (Sun) [E:101] London Art Market Art market [Image: London Art Market]

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