Based in Hiroshima, the general incorporated association My Japan works to pass Japanese cultural tradition and the appeal of its regions on to the next generation. Its representative director is Lisa Mimura. A festival staged in a shrine, a walk up a mountain at dawn, a brush-making workshop: her work looks, at first, unusually broad. Yet all of it comes from a single aim...
Nishimoto Kazutami, who runs the photography school Yūbijuku, spent many years working with images from the side that presents them, long before he taught anyone to make them. After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art, he worked in advertising and the record industry in Tokyo, then set out on his own as an art director. He created album covers for many of Japan’s defining...
Born in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Daichi Monden never left this land. Nearly forty years in television, and the years since he founded his own company. While so many set their sights on the capital, Monden stayed, and made the times where people gathered in this city. Yet the truest shape of his work shows not in the crowds themselves, but in what appears once they...
In Yokogawa, an old quarter of Hiroshima, a three-story townhouse has been given a second life. Its rooms — renovated, yet still holding the grain of the old building — are where Karin Noda works, under the name Yokogawa Guild. Born in Hatsukaichi, she trained in ceramics and later wrote essays before she arrived at the material that would hold her: cloth. A kimono...
Long before “multimedia artist” became a job title anyone could claim, OOF — born Jaïs Elalouf — was already doing the thing itself: mixing sound, image, text, and other people’s attention into something that could only exist live, in a room, for the length of a show. He started DJing in 1992. Three decades later, the pseudonyms have multiplied — Zzouf, Lunivers, JAÏS, and...
Before he was an artist, Artist G studied the brain. Born in Lebanon in 1971, he holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and for years he taught cognitive science and art theory at a university in Beirut — a position from which he watched, at close range, how the mind constructs bias, category, and belief long before a person is aware of choosing anything at...
Thursday afternoon, March 26, 2026. 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13th arrondissement. That day, the halls of INALCO — the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations — were filled with Japanese from morning on. The Journée du Japon, the annual event organised by the student association Dejima. Koto, taiko, calligraphy, matcha — people who love Japanese culture, friends of performers, families and...
À quelques minutes de la gare Saint-Paul, 17 rue François Miron dans le 4e arrondissement de Paris, un grand portail cochère s'ouvre sur une cour. Au-delà, une galerie. Rare Gallery Paris 4. L'enseigne est modeste. Mais à l'intérieur, trois espaces sur deux étages abritent peintures, photographies, sculptures — et parfois de la musique. Paisiblement, ou avec énergie, ils entourent celui qui entre. La personne qui a bâti cet espace,...
La Lumière d'un Conte “Paris est ma ville.” Il le dit simplement, sans cérémonie. Et en marchant aux côtés de David Beaulieu dans les rues de Paris, on comprend exactement ce qu'il veut dire. David est un acteur français basé à Paris. Diplômé du Cours Florent, l'une des écoles d'art dramatique françaises les plus réputées, il monte pour la première fois sur scène à 16 ans et joue jusqu'à 28 ans. La vie à ce moment-là...
Chihiro Nakamura n'a jamais étudié auprès d'un maître. Pourtant, dès l'enfance, dès qu'un pinceau touchait du papier, quelque chose en elle prenait vie. Année après année, les travaux réalisés dans le cadre des devoirs scolaires et des projets d'été ont été récompensés par des prix - non pas parce qu'elle avait été formée, mais parce que la sensibilité était simplement là, en attente. Une carrière dans le design s'ensuivit. Mais lorsque le temps est venu de parler en tant que...
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