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AST’s July Party at the On Sundays Bookstore in the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
On July 3, Craig and I held the first of two events to celebrate the printing of the second edition of Art Space Tokyo.
Kisato Kusano, the owner of the renowned On Sundays bookstore in the basement of the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (one of the 12 spaces featured in the book) generously offered us the chance to use the space so we could bring in a big bad crowd of book lovers for an evening of free beer, wine and sake.
Thank you to everyone who came! It was great to see you out in force!
Photos by Xin Tahara and Ashley Rawlings.
Left: The stunning exterior of the Watari Museum.
Right: Kusano-san laying out copies of Art Space Tokyo.
The On Sundays bookstore quickly filled up with supporters.
AST editor Ashley Rawlings talking to Megumi Matsubara from the Tokyo-based architectural office “Assistant.”
Kisato Kusano, the owner of On Sundays book store.
AST co-author, designer and publisher Craig Mod gives a speech about the Kickstarter fundraising that made this second edition a reality.
Naoki Matsuyama and Lena Oishi, who helped with the translation of Art Space Tokyo.
JUNE ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” [Artforum]
• Makoto Aida at Mizuma Art Gallery [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa at the National Museum of Art, Osaka [Artscape International]
• Toyoshige Watanabe at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura [Japan Times]
• William Eggleston at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [Japan Times]
• Fergus Freehily at Misako & Rosen [Japan Times]
• “From the 11th Chinese National Art Exhibition 2009: Contemporary Fine Art from China” at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art [Japan Times]
• Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery [Japan Times]
• Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum [Japan Times]
• “Open Space 2010” at the NTT Inter Communication Center [TAB]
• Genichiro Inokuma at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery [TAB]
• Ritsuko Yamashita at hpgrp Gallery Tokyo [TAB]
• Seiichi Furuya at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography [TAB]
• Pawel Jaszczuk at Zen Foto Gallery [TAB]
• “Where Is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [TAB]
Interviews
• Aki Sasamoto [ART iT]
• William Eggleston [Japan Times]
• David Elliott [Japan Times]
Features
• Wilhelm Sasnal [ART iT]
• Jean Fabre [ART iT]
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape International]
• Teratotera Art Project [TAB]
Obits
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [ART iT]
• Remembering Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
• Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010) [The Guardian]
Craig Mod and Art Space Tokyo in the Japan Times
The Japan Times recently ran an article on none other than Art Space Tokyo’s designer and publisher Craig Mod.
Craig’s essays, “Books in the Age of the iPad” and “Embracing the Digital Book” have won him attention from people across the publishing and IT industries, including the New York Times tech blog.
For Craig, Art Space Tokyo, and in particular the Kickstarter-funded reprint, are important milestones in developing his ideas about how we can maximize the potential inherent in digital publishing.
The second edition of Art Space Tokyo is now printed and copies will be shipped out to our loyal customers shortly.
Next week, I will be meeting with Craig in Tokyo to hold some AST events, discuss the AST iPad version and think about where we will take this project next. More on this soon!
It’s Almost Ready
Those of you who followed our Kickstarter.com fundraising campaign in April saw that we ended up climbing to a sum much higher than our original goal of $15,000.
To our amazement, we hit the $15,000 mark after only two weeks, and pledges continued to pour in over the remaining three weeks of the fundraising period.
On May 1, we reached an astonishing total of $23,790, which is allowing us to go ahead with a full second print-run, as well as develop the iPad version.
We are profoundly grateful the 265 backers who made this possible.
Over the past month, Craig and I have been mailing each other back and forth, fixing up a few missteps in the original, and polishing the book’s editorial and design.
The 2010 edition of Art Space Tokyo is at the printers right now and will be with you soon…
MAY ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round-up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
Reviews
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [Artforum]
• Yoshiji Takehara at Gallery MA [Artscape]
• “Plastic Memories – To Illuminate ‘Now’” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [Japan Times]
• “Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi: Alternative Humanities” [Japan Times]
• Ryoichi Yamazaki at Nakaochiai Gallery [Japan Times]
• “Akihisa Hirata x SHIMABUROS.” at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto [Japan Times]
• “Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation” at 21_21 Design Sight [TAB]
• Mika Ninagawa at G/P Gallery [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” at the Mori Art Museum [TAB]
• “Aleksandr Rodchenko + Varvara Stepanova: Visions of Contructivism” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum [TAB]
Interviews
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Henk Visch and Ryue Nishizawa (Part 2) [ART iT]
• Nobuyoshi Araki [Japan Times]
• Kohei Nawa [Studio Banana TV]
• Noriyuki Haraguchi [TAB]
Features
• 3331 Arts Chiyoda [Artscape]
• Toshiki Okada [Realtokyo]
Obits
• Ichiro Haryu (1925–2010) [ART iT]
• Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010) [ART iT]
APRIL ARTICLE ROUND-UP
Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.
Reviews
• “Design-Conscious Apartments Then and Now”at Misawa Homes Seminar Hall [Artscape]
• John Lurie at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]
• Art Fair Tokyo [TAB]
• Ryoko Kimura at Kido Press [TAB]
Interviews
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 1) [ART iT]
• Yasumasa Morimura (Part 2) [ART iT]
Features
• Yoshinari Nishio in Nairobi [Artscape]
• Boat People Association and Tokyo Artpoint Project [Artscape]
• The Galapagosi-isation of the Japanese art scene [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Masato Nakamura and Takashi Murakami [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Teppei Kaneuji, Koki Tanaka and Tatzu Nishi [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Fram Kitagawa and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale [Adrian Favell on ART iT]
• Shinji Kohmoto [Japan Times]
• Johnny Walker and the Bacon Prize [Japan Times]
• Art Fair Tokyo [Japan Times]
Fundraising For Art Space Tokyo Reaches its Goal!
Wow! We have reached our goal of $15,000 in only 16 days!
Craig and I are bowled over by the enthusiasm that people have shown for the Kickstarter project since the page went live on March 29.
We want to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who have pledged. Your enthusiasm and backing mean a great deal to us.
The project doesn’t close until May 1, so there’s still a chance to join us!
All additional funding we receive will be invested in expanding the second print run, developing an iPad version of the book with supplementary content, and potentially starting work on guides to art scenes in other cities around the world.
If you haven’t already, please join us!
Art Space Tokyo Reprint, Update and iPad!
Art Space Tokyo will be back on the shelves, in your hands, and on your iPad soon!
The book’s original print-run of 1,500 copies has been sold out for more than a year. If you’re one of our loyal followers who is frustrated not to have gotten hold of a copy, then this is your chance.
Demand has remained very high, so we bought back the copyright and are reprinting it ourselves, also with plans to develop an iPad version.
We have set up an Art Space Tokyo Kickstarter page, where you can pre-order your copy of the new edition.
Even though this page has only been up for less than a week, and Craig and I haven’t even sent out a mass e-mail about it yet, the response has been incredible.
Just by posting news of the reprint on Facebook and Twitter, as well as some coverage on a couple of popular blogs, we have already raised over $5,000!
This is an experiment in community-funded publishing. If we cannot secure $15,000 in pre-orders by May 1st, printing will not go ahead and you will not be charged. You’re only charged if we raise enough interest and reach our minimum goal.
We hope you’re as excited about this as we are, and that you will continue to give your support to Art Space Tokyo.
About & Community
A place to keep abreast of Art Space Tokyo related news, reviews, events and updates.
Art Space Tokyo is a 272 page guide to the Tokyo art world produced and published by Craig Mod & PRE/POST.
It was originally published in 2008 by Chin Music Press.
