I was thinking. It’s been a while since I gratified you with a shot of Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin, possibly Naoshima‘s most iconic artwork. Ironically, I barely saw it (on the bus, from the distance) on my latest trip to the island 10 days ago.    

  The names of the artists who have been invited to the Setouchi Triennale 2013 have been know for a few weeks now (you already knew that if you follow me on Facebook or Google+), but the list has been published in English only very recently on the official site.

    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?    

  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

    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

  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