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?
Yellow Pumpkin
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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 […]