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Yuka Sasahara Gallery, which launched in Kagurazaka since 2006, has relocated to Kanda, where it will share space a jointly run space with ZENSHI, who moved to Kanda in 2009. In future, the two galleries will alternate organizing shows inView More >

Ozawa Tsuyoshi  The Carpet from the Sky Tokyo’s Image Forum will hold double-feature screenings this weekend and next of two anthology works on video by filmmakers and visual artists. One, planned and composed by the pioneer of Japanese experimental film, MatsumotoView More >

Yang Fudong, the Shanghai-based artist known for his lyrical works on film, has just completed a promotional film for the fashion label Prada. Titled First Spring, the nine-minute black-and-white film forms the core of Prada’s spring/summer 2010 menswear campaign. InView More >

For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes Mizuma Art Gallery owner, Mizuma Sueo. Based in Tokyo, Mizuma has launched the careers of artists the likes of Aida Makoto, Konoike Tomoko, Tenmyouya Hisashi, and Yamaguchi Akira. HeView More >

The new iZine, ART and ARCHITECTURE REVIEW (AAR), made its online debut today, 20 January. AAR is edited by TEAM ROUNDABOUT, with architect Fujimura Ryuji and editor Yamazaki Yasuhiro at the helm, who date have published the ROUNDABOUT JOURNAL, aView More >

Exhibition The Berlin-based Japanese artist Hanayo has two solo shows forthcoming in Tokyo. In addition to her exhibition of video, installation and sculptural works at VACANT, she will join Ukawa Naohiro for a talk on 28 January. Her show atView More >

Event The art fair produced by Murakami Takashi in which young artists present their own work on an individual basis, last year saw its first staging in Taiwan. Back in Tokyo this year, the organizers have just announced that artView More >

Event bjxqdV1pxhA The Khoomei singer and multitalented artist – as evidenced by his installation at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama and appearance in 4.48 psicosis at the Festival/Tokyo 09 Autumn program – will premiere his new BlackView More >

An impromptu art auction organized to aid relief efforts following the devastating earthquake Haiti on 12 January. Art for Haiti will take place in the form of a silent auction tomorrow evening in Los Angeles. All funds raised will beView More >

Shirin Neshat Women Without Men 2009 The second staging of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions will take place this February. Taking ‘Searching Songs’ as its theme and striving to share and debate visions of new mediaView More >

Exhibition Christian Boltanski Personnes 2010 The Grand Palais, Paris The third edition of MONUMENTA, in which a leading international contemporary artist is invited to create a new site-specific work for the 13,500 m² Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris,View More >

　 Left: Ginka; right: High Fashion Bunka Publishing Bureau has announced it will cease publishing the magazines Ginka and High Fashion as of February. Ginka, a quarterly taking the aesthetics of traditional Japanese living including ceramics and textiles as itsView More >