The title of post is a book written by my favorite Japanese artist (and actually my comps artist), about his studying life in Europe. By organizing his letter to his family during his stay in Europe, he re-examined the period of his life spending abroad, before he started his real career as an artist. It…

During our visit to many of the museums and exhibitions in Italy and Germany, I have found myself especially attracted by landscape paintings. I have many quick answers to the question “why I love landscape painting”: because I study biology and enjoy ecology the most; because I spent my childhood living next to a forested…

I am always fascinated to see elder travel groups gathering around contemporary art piece with a young guide to explain art to them. They sometimes seem a little bit out of the place, as being too disciplined and organized for the contemporary art world, which is more free-style, or a better term, messed-up. But this…

A hail to the art world, and the return to aesthetics, this year’s Venice Biennale by Christine Macel is often considered as a failure of not noticing the politically chaotic real world. However, to me, the reason why I found Macel’s central pavilion unsatisfying is not because of the claim she would like to advocate,…