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...represent such destructive imagery. "He told her, 'Because it is Mexico, this will work,' " says Akiomi Hirano, Toshiko's nephew and the producer of the Shibuya mural project for the Taro Okamoto Memorial Foundation. The Mexican hotel developer who commissioned the mural, Manuel Suarez, immediately took to the concept. "Taro wanted the Japanese to surmount the misery of the past rather than to retract inwardly - to blossom outward and look ahead. That was a radical concept in 1967. He was probably the only Japanese person who even considered that...
...after its initial good reception as a concept, nobody ever saw the finished work. After Okamoto died in 1996 at the age of 84, Toshiko spearheaded a search for the mural. When it was located in September 2003 in a warehouse outside Mexico City, its surfaces deeply cracked from exposure, she made the recovery, restoration and return to Japan of Myth of Tomorrow her last project as director of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. She paid a fraction of the millions of dollars for the painting that Hirano says were spent transporting and restoring it. When it came to bringing...
Moving? Conceptual art? You don't ordinarily think of it that way, but with LeWitt, it's true. He took a dry working method and humanized it. Now there's a beautiful concept...
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...Gigli for many years before establishing her own design studio in London?stopped off at a tiny, rural community in New Zealand in search of a lunchtime snack during a vacation, she knew she'd found the perfect place to set up shop. Outpost Hokianga outposthokianga.com is a hip concept store that mixes fashion, books, art and fine food, and happens to be located in Rawene, a village clustered around a harbor on the mighty Hokianga estuary. Four years on, Outpost Hokianga, which Strathdee calls "a general store for the 21st century," is situated in a converted post office...