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LAST SHOT IN SHIBUYA FOR A WHILE

TARO OKAMOTO MURAL IN SHIBUYA EKI

Taro Okamoto's apocalyptic mural, which had been lost for years in Mexico, and now restored, finally finds its home on permanent display in Shibuya train station.

Tech Fetish Decor

Customised decorative mobiles (keitai) and camera.

This Year's Best Christmas Card From Soph

The body electric

Blast From The Past

1981 with rock & roll painter Phil Clairmont

In NZ (Aotearoa)

'Hot Pania' by Jeff James

Most Expensive Contemporary Artwork

Titled –FOR THE LOVE OF GOD – and valued at $98 million, Damian Hirst's platinum skull artwork is encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. It is cast from an 18th century skull and includes the skeleton's original teeth.

Imagistic Dualities

Since it is the season of (Gemini) dualities, the controversial, visceral, sexual 'porno' art photography of Japan's most famous photographer – Nobuyoshi Araki – a Gemini, has been captured in a doco movie, Arakimentari. Feminists have accused him of being a mysogynist.

He says: " I think women have more admirable qualities than men, physically and mentally, they are superior. We learn from them somehow. There's  always the element of mother, its because we all come from the mother, we can't beat them, can we ?"

Art Bento

Kasumin, an obsessive, talented, artistic, mum, made a unique character bento lunch box, each day for over 10 years, for her son to take to school.

In Japan, food is meticulously presented. It must appeal to the eye and the palate.

KC Zavtone

Art work: KC