Being different always has its perks. An artist in Japan known as Tabaimo creates art that is quite different from what Japan is used to: kawaii art or cute art. In Cutting Through Cute to the Real Japan by Carol Kino, she talks about how different her art is from what everyone is used to.

Tabaimo is a very humble woman, she doesn’t think that her art is extremely special, despite being featured at many museums and exhibits. She stills attends Kyoto University of Art, a very famous art school in Japan. The author says that Tabaimo is found looking like everybody else during the installation of her art. She says that she didn’t start out wanting to do art. However, she eventually stumbled into the field and began to create art.

Many of Tabaimo’s work garners attention from many Japanese people. Many of her pieces of art are very interestingly made and many people are surprised that it came from Tabaimo. Her new art was very creative. Many of them involved normal things that people see. Her art developed a lot after she began. They became more detailed and more abstract and she got better. Art is always changing; modern art has made such significant changes that people aren’t sure if it’s considered art anymore.

Artists nowadays are trying to incorporate art in everyday life. In When Life Becomes Art Johnson talks about how artists are shifting towards art that most people can see every day. “It represents efforts by more than 100 artists to expand definitions of art and change social conditions by inventive, nontraditional means.” he says. However, he believes that even though this art is new and intriguing, some of it may not be as well thought out as the others.

His main example is that of a bathroom in a restaurant in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This piece of art is supposed to denote an executive’s bathroom at an investment bank’s office. He believes that “It is a work of art — not just figuratively, but literally.” Another work of art is called “Palas por Pistolas” a piece made with recycled weapons from Mexico.

Johnson believes that this type of “lifelike art” is something that cannot be stopped. It is modern art’s way of changing itself. He thinks some of the other works are just as good; some even involving people doing the same things at the same time for one day. Even though it is new, Johnson believes that you have to be throughout the entire thing to see this type art at its potential.

The New York Hall of Science is probably a place that we’ve all been to before as little kids. All the exhibits seemed to be extremely cool since we couldn’t quite grasp how some of the things happened. However, the World Maker Fair will be there this year from September 17-18.

It features people who make interesting creations on their own. There are weird and funky robot creations, rockets, and even arts and crafts. It is the second year they’re doing this at the New York Hall of Science.

Critics have only one purpose in life; that is to write reviews about certain topics. However, among all these critics, there are ones that especially captivate the reader and some other ones that are really dull and slow. The way a reviewer reviews something is very important as it can truly show how good something is.

By starting off with a lot of descriptive adjectives, a reader can already tell that the review will be a good one. A Play That Will Not Come to Dust While It’s a Troupe’s Lucky Charm by Ben Brantley displays how a good review can really compel the reader to watch something. He starts by complementing how the play showed the headless corpse scene. Ben continues to say how the plot of “Cymbeline” was told in a way that was easily understood. He praises how all the actors are true and display no type of facade. He also comments on how the actors don’t “goof around” like some of the other plays he has seen. Ben concludes his review by saying that even the props on stage contribute to a great play’s success.

One thing about a bad review is the summarizing a play. A Couple’s Big Break That’s Not So Lucky by Neil Genzlinger has a lot about the plot. Throughout the entire review, he talks about “Temporal Powers'” plot instead of reviewing the quality of the play. He also includes a few lines from the play itself. However, the quality of the play is only said in one sentence without an elaborating.

As you can see, a good review is leagues from a terrible one. The first one was very descriptive and full of criticism of the play. However, the second one only summarized the plot which doesn’t tell readers how good the play actually is.