Exhibition Inertia, Spring/Summer 2009 Photo Chris Moore Fashion designer and artist Hussein Chalayan’s first solo exhibition in Japan is currently underway at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Born in Cyprus in 1970 and resident in the UK, Chalayan isView More >
Art fair China International Trade Center Exhibition Hall Courtesy CIGE CIGE: China International Gallery Exposition, the Chinese art fair launched in 2004, opens to the public tomorrow in Beijing. Among the fifty plus participating galleries – mostly based in China –View More >
Award Zhang Xiao Them No. 3. 2009 © The Artist Courtesy Three Shadows Photography Art Centre The results of the second Three Shadows Photography Award, established in 2008 to recognize new talent in contemporary Chinese art photography, are official. The awards wereView More >
Jeff Koons, design concept for 17th BMW Art Car Art Cars are cars that BMW has commissioned artists to transform through painting and other means into artworks. The project began in 1975, and the collection, which was featured in JapanView More >
Kusama Yayoi Love Forever, Singing in Towada ©Yayoi Kusama Arts Towada, a project organized by the Aomori Prefecture city of Towada, will celebrate its grand opening this month on 24 June. Likening the city’s Kanchogaidori boulevard to a museum, the eventView More >
Award Apichatpong Weerasethakul Phantoms of Nabua 2009 © Apichatpong Weerasethakul Courtesy SCAI THE BATHHOUSE The first Asia Art Award has announced Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul as its winner. The award was established to provide a support system for Asian artists underView More >
The Art Newspaper‘s annual survey of museum attendance figures shows four Japanese exhibitions crowning the 2009 list for average visitors per day. Regarding the blockbuster status of exhibitions featuring Japan’s historical treasures, the paper notes that not only the artisticView More >
Auction Sotheby’s Contemporary Asian Art sale held in Hong Kong on 5 April ended on positive ground, suggesting recovery in the Asian art market. The sale exceeded the high end of its pre-sale estimate by almost HK$20 million, realizing aView More >
Kyoto Art Center is calling for exhibition proposals from curators and artists for its new Exhibition Draft 2011 project. The two-stage review process involves an initial screening of application materials by judges Hasegawa Yuko (Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art,View More >
The new Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo opened its doors this week on 6 April. Housed in the former Mitsubishi Ichigokan, which was originally built in 1894 as the first office building in the Marunouchi area, the building underwent over twoView More >
Book The first published collection of works by the artist unit known for their controversial projects such as SUPER RAT (2006) and Making Hiroshima’s Sky Pika (2009). The book documents photographically the unit’s activities since their debut in 2005. Chim↑PomView More >
A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Setting Sun 2010 Polyurethane panel, acrylic paint, mirror, LED Photo Kioku Keizo A new work by the driving force of the Korean contemporary art, Lee Bul, has been permanently installed at the Hara Museum ARCView More >