Nachi Satoko: Confession
16 January – 13 February Tomio Koyama Gallery (Kiyosumi) Eyes in Silence 2009 Acrylic on canvas 227.3 x 181.8 cm A solo show by an artist who, reflecting on occurrences in her own life and stories heard fromView More >
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Naito Rei （2009）
I want to share quietly the ephemerality and fragility of the things that affect me deep inside Portrait: Nagare Satoshi An artist whose delicate style enables her to transform often subtle feelings and even drops of water into artworks,View More >
Tabaimo
Originality manifested in what we choose An artist who presents scenes from contemporary living, images emblematic of Japan, and in recent years, her own inner life, via video installations featuring hand-drawn pictures and colors and lines reminiscent ofView More >
Visionaire 57 takes form of electronic daily art calendar
Visionaire’s 57th issue and first in digital format, ‘2010’, presents 365 artworks organized into an electronic daily calendar selected by 52 curators, designers, architects, and collectors from around the world. Among those making the selections were Hans Ulrich Obrist,View More >
Thomas Ruff: cassini + zycles
I make investigations that ask people to become aware of what they are looking at. The artist who studied under the Bechers and has since become a key figure in the realm of German Photography was in TokyoView More >
Rolex announces 2010-2011 mentors
Anish Kapoor The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative is a program created to nurture rising talents in a variety of artistic fields by bringing them together with great masters for a year of creative collaboration in a one-to-oneView More >
Hirayama Ikuo (1930-2009)
Nihonga painter and Order of Culture recipient Hirayama Ikuo (born 1930 in Hiroshima) died earlier today after suffering a stroke. He was 79. Hirayama graduated from the Tokyo School of Art (now Tokyo University of the Arts), where he becameView More >
Handa Masanori X Rebecca Horn @ Tate Modern
© ROLEX/Hideki Shiozawa Results of the fourth cycle (2008-09) of the Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, pairing emerging artists with great masters in their field for a year of creative collaboration, will be presented from 3-5 December at multipleView More >
Deutsche Bank to sponsor Art Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank has made a five-year commitment to acting as the lead sponsor of the Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK). The third edition of Asia’s increasingly popular modern and contemporary art fair is scheduled for 27 – 30View More >
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist and thinker considered the father of structural anthropology, died on 30 October at the age of 100. His great many books including The Elementary Structures of Kinship, A World on the Wane and TheView More >
Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence
10.31 – 2.14 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Unicorn 1970 Photo Achim Thode ©2009 Rebecca Horn The long-awaited first large-scale solo exhibition of work by a major figure in the German contemporary art world. Rebellion in Silence:View More >
HUGO BOSS prize 2010 Finalists
The Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss announced the short list for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize (established in 1996 and awarded biennially) on 9 October. The six finalists are Cao Fei (b. 1978, China), Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Germany), NataschaView More >