It may be a bit difficult to talk about Kinza, probably the most inaccessible building from the Art House Project on Naoshima. Even more so because I won’t be able to show you what it looks like. Let’s try anyway. Kinza, as I’ve just mentioned, is part of the Art House

    Today a piece of trivia about Naoshima. Did you know that Karel Appel‘s Frog and Cat was the first piece of art to be installed on the island when the Benesse Art Site Project was started on Naoshima in 1990 ? Well, now you know.    

    It’s been more than one year since I visited the Teshima Art Museum for the first time, so maybe it’s time that I tell you about it, isn’t it? And actually it won’t be just one post but a series of posts. The place is so exceptional that

  Today I want to tell you a little bit about Honmura, one of the few villages of Naoshima. I’m not sure how many people live there, I’m tempted to say about a thousand as Naoshima has about 3,300 inhabitants and three villages roughly of the same size (well, actually

    With the current heat (35° for the past two days), I wish I could spend my days on a beach somewhere. Why not Naoshima‘s Benesse House Park & Beach, it’s not that far after all?    

  This July, the Benesse House Museum celebrates its 20th Anniversary!     Several special events are organized these days for the occasion, but there is one in particular that I advise you to attend if you can go to Naoshima tomorrow (or rather today as it’s going to be

    Shipyard Works – Bow with Hole by Shinro Ohtake   The piece can be seen on the terrace of the Benesse House Museum on Naoshima.  

  I was not exactly nice with Christian Boltanski‘s Archives du Coeur the first time I visited the artwork back in 2010. You can read my not so flattering review there as a reminder if you want. However, with time and some reflection I changed my mind a little, but

    This is where I was today (and no, the guy is not me). It was a lot of fun, and I got my first sunburn of the year. (ok, if you really don’t know where I was, this is Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin on Naoshima)    

  I meant to write this post months ago, but apparently I always postponed it. Not anymore! I have already told you about the Red Pumpkin that one can find on Naoshima, but we all know that the more important one is the Yellow Pumpkin!     You most likely

  On Naoshima, coming back from the Benesse House Park and Beach, we stumbled upon a strange phenomenon. People were taking pictures of each other assuming very strange poses.     So I got closer in order to get what was going on.         I guess I

  Naoshima Note is a small bilingual quarterly published by Benesse Art Site Naoshima talking about, well the Benesse art sites as well as life and other aspects of the islands where they’re located, namely Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima. I found it totally by chance, last June, on Teshima, and

  Not too long ago I told you about the Benesse House and the Benesse Art Site on Naoshima. Here are a few more lines and pictures about it, although today, we are going to mainly focus on the Benesse House Park and Beach. This section of the Benesse House includes

  When I started to describe in a more or less detailed way various works of art from the Setouchi International Art Festival, it was as part of me promoting the area (no, the Kagawa Prefecture is not paying me a dime for this, although, that could be an idea…