In Tachikawa, a suburban town to the west of central Tokyo, Irorin Art Class offers a space for disabled persons to make art and a place where a sense of community is nurtured. This small institution’s 2026 calendar features reproductions of several of its workshop’s participating artists’ works, including drawings and paintings that revel in the depiction and stylization of the shapes and textures of everyday subjects.

The influential artist, fashion historian and collector, and exhibition curator Roger K. Burton died in August of last year at the age of 76. Burton was the founder and director of the Horse Hospital, an independent arts center located in the British capital’s Bloomsbury district, where it became a showcase for avant-garde, underground, and experimental art-makers’ creations in a wide range of genres and media. Cathy Ward, brutjournal’s London-based artist-correspondent, knew Burton well. Here, she offers a personal appreciation of his life and achievements.

The late Roger K. Burton knew just about everyone in London’s — and, more broadly, in the U.K.’s — vibrant community of avant-garde and experimental artists, as well as countless, fellow creative types in fashion, retail, the media, education, and other fields. Here, in conjunction with Cathy Ward’s Burton obituary (see our separate article), we’ve gathered recollections of the Horse Hospital’s founder and director from a range of friends and collaborators who worked with him over the years, admiring and helping him to realize his artistic vision.

Ikumi Kakihara is a Tokyo-based artist whose boldly colored, spare new paintings and objects simultaneously evoke the punchy spirits of Fluxus, punk, and surrealism. A powerful scarlet red dominates most of her creations, and some very basic words with dramatically contrasting meanings serve as the main elements of her varied compositions. See our photo-filled report about Kakihara’s current exhibition, where ambiguous emotion and a gentle sense of humor play roles as big and important as the artist’s potent palette.

Angela Rogers is a self-taught artist who, following brain surgery years ago, developed a seizure disorder. To date, she has created original tarot-card decks and a multitude of “Poppets” — small, mixed-media figures made with fabric, colored thread, cowrie shells, beads, little ornaments, and other found materials. They’re derived from the well-known principal characters of the tarot, the centuries-old card set that has long been used to play games and as a tool for fortune-telling. This year, Rogers finished work on “Spirit,” her largest sculptural work ever. Here, she describes its production and character, and her plans for this strange creation with a powerful aura.