MAKING HISTORY—By Andrew Maerkle
“I grew up with stories—not from a book, but from a storyteller, my late father. I remember vividly how Dad used to tell stories to all my friends in front of our house. My favorite was the legend about the dowry of the princess of the mountain Gunung Ledang. As a kid, my imagination went completely wild when I heard about the list of impossible conditions that the princess requested as her dowry to the Sultan of Malacca. Can you even imagine?”View More >

“A Room with Snoopy”—Reversing Tatzu Nishi’s Hachiko’s Room After writing about the statue of Hachiko at Shibuya Station in the previous instalment of this column, I learned that on the last day of the 15th Shibuya Art Scramble festival, November 12, artist Tatzu Nishi staged an art project...View More >

Taiwan’s representation at the upcoming 60th Venice Biennale will address the theme “Everyday War,” it was announced at a media gathering in Taipei on November 23. The exhibition is dedicated to a solo presentation of leading new media artist Yuan Goang-Ming. View More >

100 years of art in the Japanese archipelago—In the 100th year since the Great Kanto Earthquake and the birth of Hachiko On September 16, I attended “Kazushi Ooura: Mt. Unzen Fugen/Strata of Memory” at the Musashino Art University Museum & Library.View More >

On July 5, the Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee announced the appointment of Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, as the artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2025.View More >

On June 28, the Organizing Committee for the Yokohama Triennale announced the theme and two new venues for the 8th Yokohama Triennale, which will take place next March. Titled “Wild Grass: Our Lives,” the theme is taken from Chinese writer Lu Xun's 1927 prose poetry collection.View More >

Kanagawa-born artist Yuko Mohri has been chosen to represent Japan at the 60th Venice Biennale. The exhibition will be overseen by Korean-born curator Sook-Kyung Lee, senior curator of international art at the Tate Modern. View More >