Artist Bill Viola has been commissioned to create two video-based altarpieces on the themes of Mary and Martyrs for permanent display in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Each work will involve an arrangement of multiple plasma screen panels configured in aView More >
Online dealers in contemporary art, Tagboat, have begun accepting submissions to their autumn event bringing together collectors and emerging artists, Young Artists Japan Vol. 2. The Tagboat Autumn Award will be held concurrently, and Tagboat is calling for submissions toView More >
Artist Ameya Norimizu’s staging of Sannin iru! (Three people here!), a remake of the work performed in 2007 by the theatre troupe Tokyo Deathclock, begins its twelve-day run on 31 July. Ameya Norimizu has been involved in theatre since hisView More >
Yodogawa Technique Chinu – the black sea bream of Osaka Bay, 2007 Mixed media, Courtesy YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY How can art help the environment? Tokyo Wonder Site explores the possibilities by staging a series of lectures by environmentalists, works madeView More >
Mark Borthwick, the artist, poet and musician known for his avant-garde fashion photography, will stage four overlapping shows in Tokyo, the first of which opens tomorrow. Jointly titled anna rose’ if handed down, the exhibitions will feature photographs, collages, drawingsView More >
Mukaiyama Tomoko the international contemporary music pianist whose practice extends to installation and performance art, launches a new, yearlong project this month that will include worldwide exhibitions and performances. Mukaiyama Tomoko: wasted http://www.wasted.nl/#/whats Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 7.26 – 9.13View More >
2008 (Nishimura gallery booth) The second staging of the Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair will be held this year from 21-23 August at the Grand Hyatt Seoul. Sixty galleries from China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan will exhibit and sellView More >
The 13th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award), established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Taro Okamoto manifested in his creative practice, is open for applications. Applications accepted 15 July – 15 September 2009. TaroView More >
Time once again for what has become a biennial Tokyo tradition: Trio the Art (artist Parco Kinoshita, art journalist Shinkawa Takashi and Contemporary Art Factory director Soga Takaaki) conduct their humor-filled briefing session on this year’s Venice Biennale. An eveningView More >
Wolfgang Tillmans © Henry Linser The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, with a history of more than half a century, has been awarded this year to artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1969 in Germany; residing in London). TheView More >
The catalogue produced to accompany the acclaimed the British artist’s first large-scale exhibition to be held in Asia – currently underway at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art – has just been published. Along with installation views are textsView More >
Okamura Design Space R is an annual project in which an architect collaborates with creatives from other disciplines. For this – the seventh – staging, Sejima Kazuyo of the architectural unit SANAA presents an exhibition titled Tomei na katachi (TransparencyView More >