Christie’s New York Post-War and Contemporary evening sale on 10 November realized a total of $74,151,500 from 39 lots sold. The top lot was Peter Doig’s Reflection (What does your soul look like) (1991) fetching $10,162,500 (est $4-6,000,000), followed byView More >
Round one of talk events planned by the Takahashi Collection Hibiya in conjunction with ‘neoneo girls’ open up Ama-no-Iwato (heavenly rock cave) by herselves currently underway at the gallery. Collector Takahashi Ryutaro chats with exhibiting artists Matsui Erina (Gold prizeView More >
Admission to selected museums and exhibitions in Tokyo will be free for the four days from 12 – 15 November to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Emperor’s enthronement. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), see for freeView More >
Art Dubai has announced the dates for its 2010 contemporary art fair. The fourth edition, boasting the most comprehensive exhibits and special programs to date, will take place from Wednesday through Saturday, March 17 – 20. With the increasing attentionView More >
・Paris’ Pompidou Center plans to create a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France’s culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs. (New York Post) http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_ROVING_POMPIDOU?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ・The Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is completing feasibility studies for a satelliteView More >
Lee Seung-taek Painted Flowers on the Rocks 1968 The Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, an international award of US$50,000 split among the winners, announced the recipients of its inaugural prize on 9 November. The prize recognizes artists withView More >
Photo: Anthony Browell Australian curator Nick Waterlow was found dead on 9 November. He was 68 years of age. Mr. Waterlow was director of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at the College of Fine Arts at the University of New SouthView More >
Architect Sejima Kazuyo has been appointed as Artistic Director of the 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition taking place in 2010. At past stagings of the festival, Sejima was responsible for exhibit design of the Japanese Pavilion in 2000 andView More >
Photo Bengt Wanselius (left), Teshigawara Saburo(right) Dancer Sato Rihoko, who gave a dazzling performance at the 2008 Yokohama Art Triennale on a field of broken glass in Teshigawara Saburo’s Fragments of Time, will appear in the Teshigawara-directed solo performance SHE.View More >
The One Piece Club, a non-profit group of art lovers who pledge to buy at least one work a year, will sponsor a pair of a one-day bus tours stopping at more than 20 contemporary art galleries around Tokyo. MembersView More >
Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe ¥2,940 / Text in Japanese and English / Seigensha Art Publishing Yanagi Miwa’s Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe, created this year for the Japanese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has been documentedView More >
Sumitomo Fumihiko, director of the CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, issued an ‘urgent comment from the director’ on CHANNEL CREAM regarding artist Fujihata Masaki’s withdrawal of his work from the festival. In his 25-minute webcast SumitomoView More >