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.  

  Last Thursday, we went back to Naoshima for the first time since Fall 2010, and when the time came to return to Takamatsu, I had a sort of premonition inspired by memories from my last visit there. In other terms, in October 2010 when the Setouchi International Art Festival

  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

Ok, I can’t go on much longer talking about Kagawa, the Seto islands, and of course Naoshima without talking about the Benesse House! So here is, finally, my first post on the topic. As you know if you’re a long time reader of this blog (well, it’s not that old,

  The works of art from the Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 about which I have talked lately didn’t excite me much. Today, it’s different as I’m going to tell you about one of those that surprised me the most. Positively surprised me, that is. It is Blind Blue Landscape (ブラインド・ブルー・ランドスケープ)

  I’ve waited for that day (yesterday) with a mix of excitement and apprehension, as it was the day I was finally going to set foot on Naoshima. The island where one day, about twenty years ago, the Benesse Corporation decided to set up a Contemporary Art Museum, which made