7.11 – 9.6 Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi (Wellington) Fiona Connor Props 2008 Paint, wood, linoleum, commercial fittings, Perspex Installation at You Are Here, ARTSPACE, Auckland Speculating upon whether it is possible for art now to influence what isView More >
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India Xianzai: Contemporary Indian Art
7.10 – 8.30 Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Riyas Komu Takeaway (detail) 2009 Courtesy the artist India Xianzai explores notions of what constitutes Indian-ness in the context of contemporary art in today’s global community. Through the work of 21 internationallyView More >
Juan Alcazaren
7.8 – 8.3 Mag:net Gallery, Ayala Avenue (Manila) Having shifted to two-dimensional mode in the recent past, this sculptor-animator-painter now returns to doing the witty bricolage he had come to be known for when he was cited as one ofView More >
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
6.28 – 9.20 Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/ 11.22 – 2.14 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston http://www.mfah.org/ Billed as the first major exhibition of contemporaryKorean art in the United States inalmost two decades, Your Bright Future featuresartists bornView More >
Ikeda Mitsuhiro: New Works
6.27 – 7.25 ShugoArts (Tokyo) Ikeda Mitsuhiro’s second solo show, and first in two years, at ShugoArts. The artist describes his paintings as ‘engaging more actively with things gleaned from reality, thereby generating new images that change our perceptions ofView More >
THINGS, the order of Handiwirman
6.27 – 7.18 Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta) Solo show by an artist who’s been in huge demand in the Asian art market ever since he represented Indonesia at the first Singapore Biennale (2007). Defying perhaps the art market’s penchant forView More >
Projects 90: Song Dong
6.24 – 9.7 The Museum of Modern Art (New York) The MoMA atrium is host to the Chinese artist’s Waste Not, first shown in 2005 at BTAP in Beijing and thereafter touring Gwangju, Berlin, and Walsall. Song Dong arranges theView More >
Geba Geba summer show – Geba geba 4 weeks
6.22 – 7.19 MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo) A cross-discipline group show by a party of 26 artists. Deriving from the German word gewalt (power), the expression geba geba came into use during the ’60s Japanese student movement to express anView More >
L_B_S by Kohei Nawa
6.19 – 9.23 Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum (Tokyo) Scum – Complusion, 2008 Large-scale exhibition of new works by the 1975-born artist from his PixCell series of objects transformed by encasing them in a skin of glass beads or polyurethaneView More >
Yang Pei-Ming: Landscape of Childhood
6.19 – 10.11 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) Iconic portrait painter Yan Pei-Ming’s first show off the canvas yearns to be framed as ‘installation’, with its giant landscapes painted on the walls of UCCA and ‘painted flags’ serving asView More >