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1 week ago | 
artsy.net | Erik Augustin Palm
ArtErik Augustin PalmteamLab, installation view of teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, 2025, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi © teamLab. Courtesy Pace Gallery. On the waterfront of Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, a cloud-like structure has risen. White and amorphous, the building offers few clues from the outside about what lies within. This is Phenomena, the newest permanent museum by the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, opening to the public on April 18th.
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1 week ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
The legends of Unzen Onsen passed down through the ages paint a chilling picture. In this mountain resort town, stories of demons, white snakes rising from the mist and Buddhist monks using the boiling waters and steaming pools — onsen (hot springs) colloquially known as “jigoku” (hells) — as metaphors for divine condemnation are not simply folklore. Instead, they are ways of reckoning with the dual nature of the town’s dramatic landscape.
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1 week ago | 
omni.se | Erik Augustin Palm
När världsutställningen i Osaka öppnar är de svenska bolagens fokus på tryggare städer, självtänkande fordon och automatiserad vardag. Omni är politiskt obundna och oberoende. Vi strävar efter att ge fler perspektiv på nyheterna. Har du frågor eller synpunkter kring vår rapportering? Kontakta redaktionen
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Erik Augustin Palm
After a five-month closure for a rigorous garden renovation, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum formally reopened on March 21, unveiling a series of updates that aim to enhance both the exhibition experience and the health of the trees themselves. Established in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world’s first public museum dedicated to bonsai art.
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1 month ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
After a five-month closure for a rigorous garden renovation, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum formally reopened on March 21, unveiling a series of updates that aim to enhance both the exhibition experience and the health of the trees themselves. Established in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world's first public museum dedicated to bonsai art.
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1 month ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
It is a spring midday on March 13, and the opening event of Tokyo Creative Salon 2025 is unfolding at Tokyu Plaza Harajuku’s cultural hub, Harakado. The space, which will serve as the festival’s nerve center through March 23, is alive with the hum of conversation and the shuffle of designers, artists and industry insiders moving through immersive installations and fashion showcases.
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1 month ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
At Harajuku Station, amid the sea of street-style aficionados and busy commuters, one tall figure stands apart. Artist Adrian Steckeweh exudes warmth and grace, enveloped in a sculptural, otherworldly-looking pink jacket of his own design, accessorized with self-3D-printed jewelry, including a centipede bracelet. As we walk down Omotesando, passersby take notice. Originally from Germany, Steckeweh, 37, moved to Tokyo 10 years ago where he works as an architect.
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1 month ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
Luxury rail travel has always carried an air of nostalgia, a lingering connection to a time when the world moved at a slower, more deliberate pace. In Japan, where the shinkansen has redefined efficiency, there exists an anomaly — the Seven Stars in Kyushu, a train that moves not with speed but with intention.
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2 months ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
Few filmmakers are as enigmatic and revered as Hayao Miyazaki, the powerhouse animator behind Studio Ghibli films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” (1988), “Spirited Away” (2001) and, most recently, “The Boy and the Heron” (2023). Equally rare is the level of access documentary filmmaker Kaku Arakawa has had to this anime icon over the past two decades.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Erik Augustin Palm
The 52-year-old is an award-winning photographer with an unmistakable style; a film and TV series director whose works, such as the manga adaptation “Helter Skelter” (2012) and the Netflix original series “Followers” (2020), explore identity and desire with visceral allure; and a music video director who has collaborated with major Japanese acts like AKB48 and international stars such as Alicia Keys.
