The Arts

Photography and illustration that change the temperature of a room: neon Tokyo nights, sunlit City Pop pools. Art you can hold in your lap.

Hiroshi Nagai painting of a swimming pool facing a still blue sea, from The Journey Begins

California, Crystalline

Hiroshi Nagai — The Journey Begins

The City Pop painter’s sunlit California — azure skies, cerulean pools, dappled palms — in a slim, sapphire, wordless collection.

Woman with a clear umbrella on a neon-lit Tokyo street, from TO:KY:OO by Liam Wong

The Tokyo Of Your Dreams

Liam Wong — TO:KY:OO

Neon, rain, and steam — Tokyo at night, shot so cinematically you forget these are photographs and not stills from a sci-fi film.