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Editors’ picks (20-26 August) Interview: Song Dong https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_interviews_e/giD39m1wnJVsqkl8eb0T/ Video: SANAA: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 https://www.art-it.asia/fpage/?OP=mov&bclid=27342443001&bctid=35081601001 Snapshots & Video: Raqs Media Collective: Escapement at Frith Street Gallery https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_expht_e/AZyEJP8WvBXTONcx06h2/ https://www.art-it.asia/fpage/?OP=mov&bclid=27342443001&bctid=35081106001 News: Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 launched https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_news_e/1BU8QtpqVbEwIiHxGYPS/ Exhibition: Picks – Louisa BufardeciView More >

©YAYOI KUSAMA, Photo COMME des GARÇONS COMME des GARÇONS launched their new space, Six, in the Minamisenba district of Osaka with a solo show by Kusama Yayoi and the Kawakubo Rei-designed space has taken on the flavor of Kusama’s world.View More >

Xu Zhen www.okmyclub.com-Fought Annan in New York 2005 Courtesy the artist and Shangart A four-day symposium organized by the Hong Kong-based non-profit foundation ArtHub to reexamine the complex interconnections within the artistic and cultural fabric of Asia. The forum takesView More >

Yamane Yasuhiro Hare The artist group SWAMP has kicked off a three-part series of exhibitions at NADiff Gallery: solo shows by each of the principal members Takano Itohisa and Yamane Yasuhiro, to be followed by a collaborative exhibition. The firstView More >

ⓒ Naoko Tamura Director Aoyama Shinji’s Le Petit Chaperon Rouge will make its Japanese screen debut at Vacant in Harajuku. Also underway at the same venue is a photo exhibition by Tamura Naoko featuring portraits taken during the making ofView More >

Left: Moriyama Daido　Photo Sawatari Hajime Right: Ohtake Shinro ⓒ Nakano Masataka Moriyama Daido’s Hokkaido – Introduction opens 12 September at Sapporo PARCO. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ohtake Shinro, who has collaborated with the photographer on a number of magazinesView More >

Opening weekend (5-6 September) of the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale will be chock-full of events from morning to night! Scheduled are talks by the Xijing Men, Huang Yong Ping and Shahzia Sikander; Nomura Makoto’s collaboration with middle school students;View More >

Amemiya Yosuke truth, 2005, oil on FRP Courtesy Yuka Sasahara Gallery An art fair dubbed KOMAZAWA MUSEUM X ART will take place next month at a housing gallery near Komazawa Park. Works by one or two of more than 30View More >

Photo Honma Takashi The Mitsubishi Ichigokan is slated to reopen in April 2010 as the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo following restoration to its original Meiji-period design. To celebrate the completion of the project, the building will open to public inView More >

Dazaifu Tenmangu, Ema Hall Artist Michael Lin will present an original ema votive painting to the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Fukuoka. Lin embarked on the project after visiting the shrine last year. Lin’s painting will be dedicated to the shrineView More >

I am not me, the horse is not mine  2008  © William Kentridge To coincide with the opening of his solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, William Kentridge will present his lecture/multimedia performance I am not me, theView More >

■Award The 1st Nakamura Keith Haring Collection International Painting Contest for children is calling for submissions. Taking ‘Peace’ as its theme, the contest offers prizes in each of four divisions: pre-school, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, and middle school. The contestView More >