2025/07/17

CNN Conducts Deep Dive on Shimabuku’s Decades-Long Octopus Art Practice

Spurred by his participation in the UK exhibitions “More than Human” and “Sea Inside,” CNN’s Francesca Perry dives into Japanese artist Shimabuku’s long-running interspecies collaboration with octopuses—from touring Tokyo with a live cephalopod to gifting octopuses bespoke glass sculptures underwater, probing non-human agency. “They have curiosity,” the artist enthuses about his tentacled muses, and “time for hobbies.”

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