Artist Yoshitaka Azuma died June 21 in Osaka due to asthma-related respiratory failure, ART iT has confirmed. Born in Osaka in 1977, Azuma earned a BA in Fine Art from Kyoto University of Art & Design and was represented byView More >
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Opening/Closing this week（6.21-27）
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Kevin Fung: “Caught in the Middle” 6.23 – 7.17 GROTTO FINE ART（Hong Kong） Mideo Cruz: “Into the World” 6.24 – 7.4 Utterly Art（Singapore） “Bauhaus & Modern Classic: Sabo Collection” 6.24 – 7.20 PKM Trinity Gallery（Seoul）View More >
2010 Baloise Art Prize winners announced
Simon Fujiwara – Installation view of Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010). Courtesy Baloise Group, Basel. Simon Fujiwara and Claire Hooper have been announced as winners of this year’s 12th Baloise Art Prize in recognition of outstanding works in theView More >
William Kentridge awarded Kyoto Prize
William Kentridge. ⓒ William Kentridge, courtesy the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. On June 18, Kyoto’s Inamori Foundation announced that South African multimedia artist William Kentridge is among the three winners of this year’s 26th Kyoto Prize. Each ofView More >
Jan Fabre
Insomniac. Mystic. Anti-Christ. By Andrew Maerkle The Man Who Measures the Clouds (1997), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Photo Atsushi Nakamichi / Nacása & Partners, © Angelos / Jan Fabre. Over his roughly 30-year career, Antwerp-based artist andView More >
Tate Modern appoints new director
Tate Modern has found a replacement for outgoing director Vicente Todolí, who leaves later this year after seven years at the iconic London museum. Chris Dercon, currently director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, will be assuming the vacated post inView More >
Rare Modigliani sculpture sets French auction record
In the latest sign that the art market is rescaling its pre-Lehman Brothers heights, a rare sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for 43.2 million euros in auction at Christie’s June 14 Impressionist and Modern Art sale in Paris. CarvedView More >
Guggenheim and YouTube launch open call for ‘Playbiennial’
Wa5NNtFt0TY Already a worldwide brand with branches in New York, Bilbao, Berlin and Venice, and a forthcoming branch in Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim Foundation has now taken its expansion to the Internet through a new partnership with YouTube. The initiative,View More >
‘Spazio’
May 30, 2010 to January 23, 2011 MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome Exterior view of MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. Photo ART iT. On May 30, 11 years after its design competition held inView More >
Opening/Closing this week (6.14-20)
Opening this week Adam Lester: “Gumbo” 6.15 – 7.10 Jan Murphy Gallery (Queensland) Pasut Kranrattanasuit: “p(L)ay” 6.17 – 7.7 Ardel Gallery of Modern Art (Bangkok) “China in Four Seasons: Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen” 6.19 – 9.12 Govett-Brewster Art GalleryView More >
Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
The German artist Sigmar Polke died June 10 in Cologne at the age of 69 due to complications related to cancer, it has been reported. Born in 1941 in Oels, Lower Silesia, in what is now Poland, Polke is consideredView More >
Remembering Arakawa (1936-2010)
Shusaku Arakawa has passed away. I had the opportunity to meet the artist, who was known professionally outside of Japan by his surname, several times over the course of my career. In the 1980s while I was running the ICAView More >