Entry: Free
A new gallery – the ICN Gallery – has just opened on Leonard Street, with a mission to show “new works which use Japanese culture and sensibilities as their base”. I missed its first exhibition, but managed to catch Ohako, its current show, last week.
Apparently, ohako means two things in Japanese: it can refer to a person's best skill or to a box for preserving tea leaves. For this show 30 Japanese artists working in a variety of disciplines were each given a tea box and asked to use it to showcase their best skill – an ohako inside an ohako.
