セーラー服って何なの? Colin Liddell September 26, 2026 0 セーラー服はかわいい。セーラー服はセクシーだ。そして、少しペドっぽい。でも、どうやって大きな毛深い水兵たちの制服から、日本の女子高生に大いにフェティッシュ化された服装になったのだろうか? セーラー服のキーポイント は、うしろについた独特な襟である。 アート by 会田誠 これに... Read more »
TOKYO GIG PICK: BRAINBOMBS (OCTOBER) Colin Liddell September 25, 2026 0 Brainbombs have been doing this since 1985, which is longer than most of the people who will pack Earthdom have been alive. The Swedes take ... Read more »
OASIS IN THE DESERT: THE KAWAGUCHI MUSEUM OF ART Colin Liddell September 25, 2026 0 Atrium, Photo: Shigeo Ogawa For many years, the vast urban area North of Ueno and Ikebukuro and south of Saitama City has been something of ... Read more »
WILL TIMELESZ'S SHUTO DO TIME FOR PARKING LOT PUNCH UP? Colin Liddell September 19, 2026 0 Inomata burnishing his bad boy appeal? Tokyo’s idol assembly line prefers its scandals to stay backstage, preferably with a tearful press co... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: OYSTER & SHELL, TSUKIJI Colin Liddell September 19, 2026 0 Walking back to central Tokyo from Odaiba, as I sometimes do, one passes through an area of reclaimed land and modern bridges. This may stri... Read more »
TOKYO ART PICKS (SEPTEMBER) Colin Liddell September 03, 2026 0 Hisashi Tenmyouya In numbers of eyeballs on artworks Tokyo is the undisputed art capital of the world, and Autumn is the undisputed art sea... Read more »
"EROS CAPITAL" CATCHING ON IN JAPAN'S STREET-WALKING SCENE Colin Liddell August 31, 2026 0 In the early 2000s, Arab-British sociologist Catherine Hakim proposed the concept of 'eros capital.' The idea is that young women... Read more »
TOKYO GIG PICK : YĪN YĪN (OCTOBER) Colin Liddell August 30, 2026 0 YĪN YĪN's oeuvre is probably exactly the kind of thing almost any 4 European guys hanging out playing funk and psychedelia around the to... Read more »
JAPAN'S SLEEP-DEPRIVED PM MISSES COCKROACH "FRIEND" Colin Liddell August 25, 2026 0 Since becoming PM 10 months ago, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been imitating her good friend Donald Trump by taking to soci... Read more »
EXHIBITION REVIEW: ETTORE SOTTSASS AT THE ARTIZON Colin Liddell August 25, 2026 0 Installation views, photos: Yuya Furukawa The Artizon Museum's decision to put on " Ettore Sottsass: Design Begins Where Magic Begi... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JINZA, SHIMBASHI Colin Liddell August 21, 2026 0 In my view, the Japanese are a people who focus much more on quality than marketing. They seem to live in the not always naïve hope that wor... Read more »