Tokyo Midtown presents The Lifestyle MUSEUM

Tokyo Midtown presents The Lifestyle MUSEUM is a guest-talk program with the shape of a small weekly museum. It opens for 30 minutes at a time. ピーター・バラカン and 柴田幸子 invite guests to explain not only what they do, but how they learned to see the world. The program’s center of gravity is culture, broadly understood. Film leads to questions of attention, sound, theatergoing, and memory. Music becomes a route into influence, mourning, performance, and discovery. A conversation with 宇多丸さん moves easily from Bob Dylan and Dead Man Walking to Patti LaBelle singing “Lover Man,” D’Angelo’s compact legacy, and the pull of radio. A conversation with psychiatrist 和田秀樹さん turns more argumentative, pushing against command-style medicine and asking what older people gain by eating well, laughing, and refusing needless self-denial. The show can also become tactile. ヤン・ジョンエさん’s episode touches Korean dance, butoh, survival Japanese, NHK language work, short essays, and the strange feeling of hearing her own voice in an airport. 日高大輔さん’s visit reveals quiz writing as timing, framing, misdirection, and the art of the unexpected answer. 遠山夏未さん’s soup exhibition turns food into design, linking salt concentration, umami, scent, color, recipe cards, and personal memory. 佐渡裕さん’s episode follows conducting into rehearsal rooms, orchestra temperament, hall acoustics, audience energy, and the possibility that a performance blooms differently every night. ピーター・バラカン’s openings often arrive through records, films, exhibitions, food, or travel, so the interviews feel placed within a wider cultural map. The show is polished but conversational. It gives guests space to tell practical stories. It also notices craft: the body in dance, the hand in design, the question in a quiz, the cue in conducting, the record that changed a listener. For PlayNext users, it offers thoughtful Japanese-language cultural talk with a strong ear for music, a respect for lived expertise, and a steady interest in how taste becomes a life.