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Epson, global technology leader has bagged the Prime Ministers Prize for inventing a high-brightness,...

teamLab, Massless Clouds Between Sculpture and Life (2020). Installation view of "Every Wall is a Door" Superblue Miami, 2021. Sound: teamLab. © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery. A version of this story first appeared in the spring 2021 Artnet Intelligence Report, which you can download in full for free here.   The launch of Superblue could not have come at a worse time. It was August 2020, in the heat of the summer lockdown, when the company announced its formation to a largely skeptical art...

THE ONE STADIUM Unlikely as it is that any of us will experience this years troubled Tokyo Olympics in person, factor in a visit to the unique 60,000-seat National Stadium if you do eventually travel to the Japanese capital. The eco-stadium, where the main track and field, football finals and the opening and closing ceremonies will be staged, was designed by Japanese "starchitect" Kengo Kumo. The buildings generous cedar cladding draws a link to nature, tempering its mostly concealed steel stru...

teamLab works their magic at Mito’s Ume Matsuri 2021 Feb. 28 06:00 am JST Feb. 28 | 06:26 am JST TOKYO Japan’s spring season is famous for the blooming of cherry blossoms throughout the country from around mid-march, but if you’re in Japan you would have noticed that the pink season actually starts around a month earlier, when the ume blossoms (or plum blossoms) start to bloom. Ume blossoms are similar to cherry blossoms, but often come with much brighter hues. However...

Advertising It’s easy to say teamLab is huge in Japan – not only are the teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets Tokyo museums essential visits on any trip to Tokyo, the art collective just keeps opening new special exhibitions such as their installation at Ibaraki’s Kairakuen Garden. However, their newest exhibition, teamLab Reconnect, brings light art and digital projection to a whole new physical, and sweaty, level. Located in Roppongi, teamLab Reconnect combines a traditional sauna wi...

Located on the stunning island of Naoshima off the coast of Seto Inland Sea, Chichu Art Museum was built mostly underground to avoid affecting the natural scenery. Refresh your minds at this minimalistic museum, designed by Tadao Ando, that lets in an abundance of natural light and hosts the works of Claude Monet, James Turrell and Walter De Maria. Not only is it a paradise for art lovers, but the museums architecture and design invite visitors to rethink the important relationship between peop...