Artist Chiharu Shiota (right) with curator Hitoshi Nakano in front of their maquette for the Japan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Chiharu Shiota will represent Japan at the upcoming 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, it was announcedView More >
The artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yasumasa Morimura, unveiled a detailed list of participating artists in his exhibition at a press conference at the Yokohama Museum of Art on Apr 22. Morimura announced the names of 55 newView More >
Pipilotti Rist – Mercy Garden Retour Skin (2014), audio and video installation (photograph inspired by Yuji). Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine. At a press conference in Kyoto on April 4, Shinji Kohmoto, the artistic director ofView More >
Cardboard Cathedral (2013), Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo Stephen Goodenough. Shigeru Ban has been awarded the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it has been announced. Ban is the seventh Japanese architect to win the prize, considered to be the top distinction inView More >
Yokohama Triennale 2014 artistic director Yasumasa Morimura (center), flanked from left to right by participating artists Akira Takayama, Kanayo Ueda of Kama Gei, Gregor Schneider and Masahiro Wada. New details have emerged about the Yokohama Triennale 2014, presented at aView More >
UTUX, Pan-Spirit’s Men for Music and Dance – Her Silent Innermost (2012), installation view at the “11th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. One of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors in the field of arts and culture, theView More >
Installation view, “The Encyclopedic Palace.” Photo ART iT. The 55th edition of the Venice Biennale opened to the public Jun 1, with 88 national participations and a centerpiece exhibition curated by this year’s artistic director, Massmilioni Gioni. Titled “The EncyclopedicView More >
At a press conference held May 21 by the organizers of the 2014 Yokohama Triennale, artistic director Yasumasa Morimura announced the theme of the exhibition, “ART Farhrenheit 451 : Sailing into the sea of oblivion.” Making reference to Ray Bradbury’sView More >
© Odawara Art Foundation. Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s reinterpretation of the classic bunraku puppet play Sonezaki shinju (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki) will be touring Europe with support of the Japan Foundation and the Odawara Art Foundation, it was announcedView More >
The philosopher and former president of Osaka University, Kiyokazu Washida has been appointed as the director of the Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai. Born in Kyoto in 1949, Washida specializes in clinical philosophy and ethics, but has also written about aestheticsView More >
Toyo Ito has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Mar 17. Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to win the prize, after Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.View More >
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, designed by Sou Fujimoto / Indicative CGI. © Sou Fujimoto Architects, courtesy Serpentine Gallery, London. Architect Sou Fujimoto will design this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens, it was announced Feb 14. At 41,View More >