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The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage announced the launch of the region’s new contemporary and modern art fair, Abu Dhabi Art, to be held from 19 to 22 November. The fair will take place in the Saadiyat IslandView More >

Work by Henry Roy The Center for COSMIC WONDER in Tokyo opened a group exhibition by Laetita Benat, Homma Takashi, Henry Roy, Mark Borthwick, and COSMIC WONDER Light Source. The show features a photo-installation based on idea of the participatingView More >

To help make buying art an easier, more accessible prospect, Civic Art (Tokyo) conceived of an art-sharing service they’ve dubbed ‘articket’. In an effort to put together a pool of trial members for the service, the company is seeking participantsView More >

■Book A book that proposes travelling in and around the art cities near Tokyo, from the galleries of the Tokyo suburbs to places farther afield such as Hayama, Kobuchizawa and Mito, either as day trips, short trips or as partView More >

The Verge Art Fair will be held in Miami, during the same period as the annual Art Basel Miami Beach, to introduce emerging artists and their work. The Verge Art Fair is a reinvention of the Bridge Art Fair thatView More >

■Exhibition Zhang Huan Foam (1) 1998 chromogenic print Collection SFMOMA, gift of Vicki and Kent Logan; © Zhang Huan An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the theme of contemporary photographic expression in China, Japan andView More >

Metropolis With this year’s theme being the New World Order Survival Guide, the films from a diverse range of genres including science fiction, biographical, religious, documentary and animation, suggest ideas for surviving confusing times and burst with good intentions atView More >

Installation view at Marianne Boesky Gallery Project Space (New York), 2008 (c) Yuichi Higashionna Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates, Marianne Boesky Gallery Metamorphosis – Objects Today is an eight-part series of exhibitions curated by Amano Kazuo (Chief Curator, Toyota Municipal MuseumView More >

For the next round of his talk session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes curator Hasegawa Yuko (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo). In light of his guest’s stellar background as the founding director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KanazawaView More >

Kawashima Hideaki bye, 2005 The first round of talk events planned by the Takahashi Collection in conjunction with neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are “soshokukei – herbivorous artists”? currently underway at the gallery. Collector Takahashi Ryutaro welcomes exhibiting artists KawashimaView More >

The year’s staging of the Paris art fair FIAC will see the launch of a new satellite fair focusing on emerging artists: Cutlog. Organized by the artist and filmmaker Bruno Hadjadj and with Mercedes Benz as main sponsor, some featureView More >

■Event In conjunction with his solo show underway at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Kitajima Keizo welcomes a host of guests in a series of three talks. For the first he chats with the director of the documentary filmView More >