The Tokyo Midtown Award, established in 2008 with distinct art and design segments, is calling for entries for its 2009 awards. The deadline for entries is July 13. The Art Competition seeks ideas for artworks expressing ‘Japan value’ (unique JapaneseView More >
The Busan Biennale has appointed Japanese curator Azumaya Takashi artistic director of the 2010 biennale. A designated team within the organizing committee selected Azumaya was from among 147 Korean and international candidates. Azumaya is the first non-Korean national appointed toView More >
Art 40 Basel, the world’s largest art fair, held in the Swiss city of Basel, kicked off on June 8 with the opening of the Art Unlimited section. With the art market in the doldrums since autumn, ahead of theView More >
Starting this year, Design Miami/ Basel will move to Hall 5 of the Basel exhibition complex, the same venue as Art Basel. VIP previews by invitation only kicked off on June 8. These featured a comprehensive collection of designer furniture,View More >
Plans are underway for Japanese screening and distribution of the US public educational channel PBS contemporary art documentary art:21. The series includes interviews with prominent artists, and footage of artists at work. art:21 official website http://www.pbs.org/art21/ Tomo Suzuki Japan (JapaneseView More >
Popular art spot TKG Daikanyama, which opened in September 2007, will close with the end of the current exhibition, featuring work by up-and-coming ceramic artist Aoki Ryota. Through June 20 (Sat) at TKG Daikanyama http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/TKGD/jpn/frame.html
The International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama (CREAM) to open in October is calling for entries in its media arts competition. The preliminary and final rounds of judging in this attempt to postulate new forms of visual expression forView More >
Anish Kapoor Svayambh 2007 A major one-man exhibition by Anish Kapoor, known for his massive installations, is to be staged at London’s Royal Academy of Arts this autumn. The show will feature recent works such as Svayambh (2007), plus site-specificView More >
…wherever you go! The MoMA store now stocks a range of stationery featuring designs from the art of Yokoo Tadanori. Yokoo Notebook 6h x 4.25w x 1″d $18.95 Yokoo Note Cards 4.25h x 5.5w x 1.5″d $15.95 Yokoo Pocket JournalView More >
The Japanese government has announced its supplementary budget for the 2009 financial year: 13.9256 trillion yen. Of this the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) portion totals 1.3174 trillion yen, 31.5 billion of which has been allocatedView More >
The first Festival/Tokyo featuring Japanese and international performing artists was staged in February – March this year. A second festival will now be held in October at venues around Ikebukuro. Many performers from the first festival, including Romeo Castellucci, AmeyaView More >
…Hong Kong A sale of 20th century Chinese art and Asian contemporary art was held at Christie’s Hong Kong over two days from May 24. According to Christie’s official figures, 34 items were presented at the first day’s sale, fetchingView More >