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First stop is Kyoto’s Nishiki Market 錦市場, a thriving shopping precinct, an undercover and narrow alley, which stretches for five blocks in the downtown district. Most of what is here is food related.

The National Museum of Art in Osaka was opened in late 1997 as the fourth national museum in Japan. The building was originally designed as the Exposition Museum of Fine Arts at Osaka’s Expo 70 and was then redeveloped to its current use.

A journey through modernity and tradition from Tokyo to Kyoto on a Shinkansen to the heart of ancient Japanese culture and tradition.

In this film we join Arahmaiani as she paints Grey by the Elo-Progo River in Central Java and in Singapore, Tony Godfrey, Equator Art Projects, talks to Arahmaiani about the grey paintings.

As the rain hammers down on the streets and buildings of tropical Cairns it was once again time to visit master printer Theo Tremblay in his print workshop Editions Tremblay NFP (no fixed press) at Canopy Artspace.

Soe Naing (Myanmar) at Art Stage Singapore in January 2014. Powerful work and performance with greater resonance than ever, loaded with history, humanity, compassion and suffering. The Singapore audience thought so as well.

Joe Dhamanydji is a guardian of cultural knowledge, not all of this knowledge can be shared with non-Aboriginal people. He is the proud Chairman of Milingimbi Art and Culture.

Water lilies are many things, they are beautiful, they are numerous, around 70 species, water lilies live in the tropics and in temperate zones. Aquatic herbs, water lilies have been an important food source for Indigenous people since ancient time.

Jacob, from the Datawuy clan, has been playing Yidaki since he was three. In Milingimbi young people learn to play the Yidaki using leftover plastic plumber's pipe. When you are big enough to hold the Yidaki it is time to play the real thing.

Before taking us to her island homeland of Langarra, Ruth Ngalmakarra tells us about Milingimbi Art and Culture and the artistic traditions of the region.

We look back to 2014 and the stunningly beautiful community of Yirrkala. It is also a place where a lot of very clever stuff happens and the world knows it.

We join Napuwarri Marawili as we select a hollow log for the artist to create a larrakitj or memorial pole. The hollow log, bark removed, will be sanded and prepared and then painted using the traditional and sacred designs of Napuwarri’s clan.

Among the very precious things in Australia is the cultural knowledge of its Indigenous people. Today and at the Mulka Project’s home in Yirrkala, this knowledge and the latest technology meet, two knowledge economies entwined.

When it comes to standing strong and connecting globally, the Yolŋu set the gold standard for us all. It is in this way and in April 2018 that Prince Charles visited Yirrkala in East Arnhem Land.

This story was first published in May 2018 and pre COVID. In the first year of its opening the new museum received 2.3 million visitors. teamLab’s world is a world of endless possibilities, it is a world without boundaries and an art without end.

We stand in this place with deep sadness in our hearts for this war and all wars. Sadness made worse because we know deep in our hearts that nothing has been learnt.