Koike Junya Utsu, 2008 Courtesy Gallery Yamaguchi Twelve galleries in the Ginza/Kyobashi areas of Tokyo have each planned a solo show by an emerging artist to be staged concurrently under the umbrella title Statements From Galleries: Focusing on a NewView More >
On 20 June, the Musée de la bande dessinée (Museum of Comics) opened in the French city of Angoulême, a city also known for hosting the annual Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême (Angoulême International Comics Festival). The newlyView More >
The Music of Regret (2006), a film by Laurie Simmons whose solo show recently closed at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, takes on a new form at the Comme des Garçons boutique in Aoyama: the artist’s signature puppets appearView More >
Tokyo’s nexus for screening and education in Japanese film is offering two special summer-school courses in August: film history and the cutting edge of filmic art. The latter will feature a different subject and guest instructor including curators Hasegawa YukoView More >
Photo: Maruo Ryuichi Guitarist, turntablist and composer Otomo Yoshihide launches a string of events from July through November in Tokyo. First up is ENSEMBLES 09 ? Rest-ful Musical Devices – an evolved version of the ENSEMBLES exhibition he staged inView More >
Sotheby’s back-to-back contemporary art auctions held June 25 and 26 in London neared their top pre-sale expectations. In the evening sale on 25 June, 37 of the 39 lots offered found buyers; as did 187 of the 217 offered atView More >
Utrecht booksellers and Paperback magazine launch ZINE’S MATE – TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2009, the first book fair specializing in artist’s publications to be held in Japan. The fair and related exhibitions take place for three days from 10 ?12View More >
Japan’s top media arts festival ? from which the grand prize winning work of last year’s animation division, Tsumiki no ie by Kato Kunio, went on to win the Academy Award for animated short film – will begin accepting entriesView More >
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is calling for a boycott of Internet use in protest to a government plan to fit all computers sold in the country with software designed to block ‘unhealthy’ websites. In a posting on Twitter on JuneView More >
(c)Frederik Heyman Orgy of Tolerance by the artist, stage director, choreographer, playwright and poet Jan Fabre is playing in Japan at the Sai-no-Kuni Saitama Arts Theater. Following a major solo show in 2008 at the Louvre and his much-talked-about gargantuanView More >
For the second year in a row, Volvo Cars Japan invites artists and designers in Japan to submit their works – inspired by the theme ‘Interpretations of Modern Scandinavian Design’ – to the Volvo Art & Design Competition. Mori ArtView More >
Sugimoto Hiroshi Model for Go’o Shrine Appropriate Proportion, 2003 (Gallery Koyanagi) © Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi Architectural models and drawings by some of the most sought-after Japanese architects working today will be shown concurrently at six leadingView More >