Next stop – infinity! My transcendental experience on Japan’s ‘art island’ guided by its master Lee Ufan 16.7%
The Guardian - By Alex Needham - 5/4/2026, 4:00 AM
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The island of Naoshima used to be heavily polluted and dominated by a Mitsubishi plant. Now, after being redeveloped by the billionaire Sōichirō Fukutake in 1989, it’s known as Japan’s “art island”. Boasting 3,000 inhabitants and rising up out of Seto Inland Sea, the island is studded with dim, concrete-walled galleries sunk into the... more