Johnny Chiba Reviews
Boy Kong – Kingly Salutations
Nathalie Djurberg – Stop Motion parade
Dub Trio – Hefty Live Review
Asian Rock: Thai? Dai! – CD Review
Arthur Suydam Marvel Variant Animated
Alex Gross – reconfigured & animated
Danny Hellman – Salute
BeMyDelay – Music Review
Dungen – Live Review
Monster Engine Salute
Jermaine Rogers Animated Salute
Friends With You – Miami Balloon Parade
Marnie Stern – Salute
REFUSED Live Terminal 5, NYC ’12
The Old Bronx Borough Courthouse is No Longer Empty
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba affirms, confirms + participates
Test Press does the MoCCA Loca
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba chugs through three floors of creators, comics, artists and publishers aplenty at the annual MoCCA Fest eventacular
TEST PRESS hits ART BASEL Miami Beach for discovery, uncovery & recovery
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba recovers, discovers and uncovers art and artists, old and new, extant, extinct and extraordinaire
TEST PRESS braves CMJ Music Marathon ’14
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba braves the elements and strains of Ebola to (un)cover CMJ Music Marathon 2014
TEST PRESS Freezes at Frieze NY 2014
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba gets framed and frozen at Frieze New York 2014 swimming to and fro Randall’s Island in hot speedo underwear!
TEST PRESS: Ornery at The Armory 2014
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba gets orned & armed @ the Armory for MoCCA Fest ’14
TEST PRESS: CMJ Music Marathon ’13
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba gets sick and old real quick at CMJ Music Marathon 2013, but manages to find radically rad musicality, exploding sounds and puts the “graphic” in photographic
TEST PRESS Frieze NYC 2013 Photojournalismo
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba explores the Island of Randall, where balloons and food become art, and art is unbecoming
TEST PRESS Art Basel 2012 Photojournal
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba provides lowbrow highlights of all that is cool and great at the annual Miami South Beach event ART BASEL 2012
TEST PRESS traverses Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Fest
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba meanders thru Brookyn Comics & Graphics Fest, post-Sandy
TEST PRESS gets MAD @ NY ComicCon ’12
A Hundred Humongous Hulks and a Helluva Hangover!
TEST PRESS Stress @ CMJ Music Fest ’12
Johnny Chiba plots potshots & whatnots. pseudo-rhyme photo-journal of CMJ Marathon ’12
TEST PRESS Impress @ NY Asian Film Fest ’12
Johnny Chiba P/Reviews @ New York Asian Film Fest and Japan Cuts ’12
TEST PRESS grabs BBQ + Bush Tetras Live @ Barnard College NYC
Chiba trucks on down to see Bush Tetras and friends @ Barnard College’s WBAR-B-Q, with the prodigious Pat Place, guitarist of Contortions fame, cranking out axe-shards of magic
TEST PRESS: Frieze NY ’12 Big Tent Highlights @ Randall’s Island
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba irreverent review & circumstantial experiential from the Island of Randall
TEST PRESS explores, exploits & exposes NY Comic Con ’11
PhotoJournal of Jefe aka Johnny Chiba, featuring Mini Hulk, Transformers, Adventure Time, The Regular Show, Artist Alley, Comics Cons and Morons
TEST PRESS Musical Experiential: CMJ Music Fest ’11
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba’s Annual Big Apple Musical Experiential: CMJ Music Fest 2011 – Gauntlet Hair There & Everywhere, Scales of Skeletonwitch, Fear of Kvelertak, Art vs Science vs Chiba
TEST PRESS Salute to New York Asian Film Festival ’11
Johnny Chiba previews NYAFF ’11 with ninja kids, battlefield heroes, yakuza weapons, supernatural detectives, gun-slingin gangsters, robotic sex and sexy robots and the great Blade!
TEST PRESS: American Idol Season 10
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba recaps, recraps, regurgitations, reanimations, recaptured fades
TEST PRESS Salute to Wave Hill, The Bronx NY
Wave Hill photojournal with flowers, plants and Fred Tomaselli, by Jefe aka Johnny Chiba
TEST PRESS Peers at The Piers for The Armory Show ’11
Art, Artists, Artisans and Artistas del Jefe aka Johnny Chiba
TEST PRESS A-Z Preview: SXSW ’11 Music Fest
Johnny Chiba’s A-Z preview of SXSW ’11 Music Fest, with a sharp-edge focus on international bands, great musicality, key links for your listening pressure; animations and transmogrifications of cd covers and artwork for samurai eyeballs
TEST PRESS: Anyt’ing You Want Group Show
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba explores contemporary artists work about sex, sexuality, and gender expression in painting, performance, photography, sculpture and video.
TEST PRESS @ Art Basel Miami ’10 First Person Experiential
Jéfe aka Johnny Chiba first-person experiential of the great art fair that is ART BASEL, and select satellite art fairs
TEST PRESS @ Art Basel: SCOPE Art Fest
Satellite of Scope scoped out by Jefe aka Johnny Chiba
TEST PRESS PULSE check: Art Basel Satellite
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba catches a strong pulse at PULSE Art Fair ’10
TEST PRESS Art Basel AQUA ’10 at Aqua Hotel
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba goes door-to-door @ The Aqua Hotel & courtyard with Balint Zsako, AJ Oishi, Natalie Majaba Waldburger, James Benjamin Franklin, Terry Turrell…
TEST PRESS Art Basel a la PINTA ’10
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba gets abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual at Pinta Art Fair
TEST PRESS Knows Nada About Art or NADA Art Fest ’10
Yet another Art Basel Miami Satellite Art Fair el Jefe aka Johnny Chiba knows nada about, at NADA, except that Lauren Kelly does exceptional stop-motion art!
TEST PRESS CMJ Music Fest ’10 Experientiality
ex-CMJ Indie Sales Samurai gets to experience the festivus of CMJ, with Marnie Stern, Prince Rama of Ayodhaya and other illustrious bands
TEST PRESS Hulks Out at NY ComicCon ’10
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba seeks and finds comic books, pseudeo-superheroes
and more Hulks than you can shake a big green stick at…
TEST PRESS Presses On to Art Basel ’09 Miami Beach
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba presstacular account of Art Basel ’09 Miami with Shepard Fairey, Raqib Shaw, Yayoi, Miró, Tomaselli, Nathalie Djurberg Stop-Motion
TEST PRESS at SXSW & FYFY Fests – Austin Tex ’07
Jefe aka Johnny Chiba Experiential in Awesome Texass @ South by South West & Fuck by Fuck You Fests, starring Israeli wonder bands Monotonix and Lebanon, the Fantastical Black Moth Super Rainbow & Tentacular Octopus Project