If You Miss The 2020 Tokyo International Quilt Festival You Will Have REGRETS

This one is from last year, but you can be sure there will be equally fantastic offerings in 2020! (“Memories” by Reiko Hatakeyama, 2019) The Tokyo International Quilt Festival that used to happen every January is no more, but Yokohama stepped into the breach with a fabulous new quilt extravaganza that happens every November! Here’sContinueContinue reading “If You Miss The 2020 Tokyo International Quilt Festival You Will Have REGRETS”

At The Mori Museum: 3D-Printed Sushi & Other Glimpses Of The Future

The Mori Museum’s current exhibit, Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow pushes all my favorite buttons: food, fashion & WTF! It’s a satisfyingly huge show, with installations ranging from utopian plans that harness cutting-edge tech, to darker commentary on how we’ll use technology to evolve in a worldContinueContinue reading “At The Mori Museum: 3D-Printed Sushi & Other Glimpses Of The Future”

Epic Japanese Quilt Show

“Flowers Of The Cosmos” by Fumiko Nakayama Let me just say right up front that this quilt show exceeded expectations in every way. Something I really love about Japan is that Art-With-A-Captial-A is defined so generously, and artists whose work requires many years of mastering the technical parts of making it are not dismissed as “craftsmen” but givenContinueContinue reading “Epic Japanese Quilt Show”