Yayoi Kusama is Opening a Museum

Known and adored all over the world, artist Yayoi Kusama is set to open her very own museum in Tokyo. The five-story museum will host a garden, reading room, materials archive and a shop—as well as some of Kusama’s most famous and celebrated works. Opening 1 October this year, tickets will cost ¥1,000 ($7) and it’s surely to become a much-visited Tokyo institution. Read more …

Vegetable By-Products Turned Into Waffles and Syrup

Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld’s proposed a new way to confront our global vegetable waste problem (where by-products are tossed rather than used). No, it’s not a soup. Rutzerveld has developed a recipe for sweet waffles derived from carrot, beetroot, or celeriac. She’s also created a syrup from the juices of those vegetables—through a water reduction process. Thus, these are entirely plant-based waffles (vegan and additive …

John Lennon’s “Imagine” Illustrated by Jean Jullien

Over 40 years ago, John Lennon released “Imagine” and now, as French artist Jean Jullien says, the song is as important as ever. Jullien has illustrated the lyrics for the first ever picture book set to Lennon’s words in order to “inspire a new generation to imagine a world at peace.” With a foreword by Yoko Ono, the book was created in collaboration with Amnesty …