Arts & Culture Editor
Parker Liu
A TIDEZINE editorial byline covering exhibitions, artists, design and cultural institutions.
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Yohei Ogawa Enters Trading Cards for the First Time, "Green Cow Garden" Pop-Up Lands at Hong Kong's BELOWGROUND
Japanese illustrator Yohei Ogawa launches a debut trading card project with 137 designs at Hong Kong's BELOWGROUND, anchored by a 1.4-meter BG Bear statue on site. He also opened up about his own struggles trying to score Pokémon card packs.
Japanese Artist might's First Overseas Solo Exhibition Lands in Taipei's PLOT, Curated by Yasumasa Yonehara
The exhibition will run from August 22 to September 3, 2026 at PLOT in Taipei's Da'an District, curated by streetwear art curator Yasumasa Yonehara, showcasing might's works depicting youth and chance encounters with soft, delicate brushstrokes.
To Hide a Few Pillars, ROAR Accidentally Designed an Entire Showroom's Architectural Language
In the old Empire Mills warehouse in Mumbai, ROAR set out simply to conceal some structural columns, only to see a set of cubic volumes grow into a fractal system running through the whole space, framing the display of Jaipur Rugs' hand-woven carpets.
When Earth Stops Being Habitable: This NYC Group Show Swaps Escape Bags for Myth and Memory
603 Arts Foundation's inaugural exhibition "The Cataclysm of Binary Star Systems" runs through August 29 at Nunu Fine Art in New York, bringing together artists from Asia, Latin America and their diasporas to explore one question through astronomical mythology: what would humanity carry if forced to start over.
Frank Kunert Pulled the Tiny People Out of His Models — And That's When the Architecture Started Lying
German photographer Frank Kunert hand-builds his scenes at scales from 1:12 to 1:43, but early on he made a call to strip out the figurines — letting a staircase, or an apartment wedged under an overpass, tell the story on its own.
This Hokkaido House Was Designed as One Giant Window Into the Forest
Architect Yosuke Tomiya's Morimado House in Hokkaido — its name literally translating to "forest window" — uses split-level circulation and an arched opening to turn the backyard forest into scenery you can't help but run into every day.
How an Invisible House Won Over a Council: Inside Lumion Pro's Role in a London Firm's 3-Year Planning Battle
Agora Architects' fully subterranean home The Wilderness spent three years stuck in planning purgatory. What finally turned the tide was Lumion Pro's seasonal lighting and terrain simulation—a tool that ended up quietly reshaping the studio's entire design workflow.
Old Clothes, Steel Cage, No Glue: A Fashion-Trained Architect "Welds" Building Material With a Hacked 3D Printer
Taylor Leung swapped a 3D printer's extruder for five heated metal needles, using no adhesive at all to melt down fast fashion's discarded polyester garments into a porous material—then turned it into chairs, walls, columns, and eventually a full-scale shed.
OODA's DUAS Towers: One Round, One Square, Same Stone Logic
OODA has designed a pair of 98-meter towers for Vlorë, the coastal city in southern Albania, drawing on local Tomorri white marble and traditional carpet patterns — one round, one square, both built from the same structural grammar.
Do Ho Suh Doesn't Sew Houses — He Stitches the Paths Your Hands Remember
From Seoul to London, he stitches light switches, radiators, and stair railings into translucent polyester fabric at exact scale. For Do Ho Suh, architectural memory was never about the size of a whole house — it's about the one motion your body repeats every single day.
A Danger Sign Shaped Like a Pyramid: Andy Medina's Cultural Hijack
Mexican artist Andy Medina's solo show "MEX I CAN" at John Doe Gallery in Los Angeles takes apart traffic signs, the Supreme logo, and F1 racing symbols one by one, then reassembles them—asking who really gets to define "Mexican-ness."
teamLab Turns an Osaka Sunflower Field Into a Living Ecosystem — the Title Is the Only Clue
teamLab's latest work, "Life is the Small Sun Flickering in the Dark," transforms an Osaka sunflower field into an interactive ecosystem — and the title itself is the most honest explanation the piece offers.
Sable Elyse Smith Turns Prison Waiting-Room Chairs Into Children's Toys, Dismantling Institutional Violence One Object at a Time
Sable Elyse Smith's solo show "Clockwork" lands at The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, using neon, video, and sculpture to examine how incarceration and surveillance seep into everyday language and objects.
Checksy Choi's Eotieum: A Hanji Fishing Boat Docks Inside a Seoul Cold War Bunker That Never Lets Anyone Land
Taking her grandmother's escape boat from North Korea as its origin, artist Checksy Choi builds a breathing vessel of welded steel and hand-torn hanji paper inside a Cold War anti-tank bunker in Seoul—letting separation and longing remain unresolved, rather than rushing to patch memory whole.
Rolling Stones Once Stayed Here: This Train Station Landmark Becomes Innsbruck's Only Five-Star Hotel by 2029
Built in 1869, Grand Hotel Europa hosted Queen Elizabeth II and the Rolling Stones. Minor Hotels has signed on for a full renovation, reopening in 2029 with 120 rooms and a rooftop bar as the city's only five-star property.