Left: Arakawa Shusaku & Madeline Gins Right: Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park Conceptual artist Arakawa Shusaku died in New York on May 19. He was 73. Arakawa began his career as a jockey for the avant-garde movement inView More >
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Kaikai Kiki opens new space in Nakano
Installation view of works at Hidari Zingaro, 2010 Murakami Takashi’s art production company, Kaikai Kiki, has opened a new space called Hidari Zingaro in the otaku shopping mall, Nakano Broadway. The gallery is said to take its name from theView More >
Molecular Production and the Cultural Mainstream
Vasif Kortun on the Case of the Evaporating Art Center In cities such as Istanbul, Madrid and many others, the disappearance of medium-scale institutions seems to have intensified in recent years. Euphemistically called “art centers,” “ICAs,” “kunstvereins” and so on,View More >
Jan Fabre & Katsura Funakoshi
‘Alternative Humanities’ April 29 – August 3, 2010 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Left: Jan Fabre – Self-portrait of the hanged (1999). Fondation Raimunda Munoz Ortega, Mula (Spain). Photo Attilio Maranzano, © Angelos / Jan Fabre. Right: KatsuraView More >
No. 1: The Hostess Suit
Resistance is Futile: The Pulling Power of the ‘Hostess Suit’ On business in the provinces, unenthused about drinking alone in some cramped, cheap hotel room, I hesitantly open the door of a local “snack” establishment. I am no longer young,View More >
Nara Yoshitomo: ceramic works
15 May – 19 June Tomio Koyama Gallery (Kiyosumi) Miss Forest 2010 Ceramic decorated with platinum, gold and silver liquid 144 x 102 x 100 cm ©Yoshitomo Nara Photo Kioku Keizo Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery Nara Yoshitomo’s first solo show in sevenView More >
Thai artist diagrams political conflict
With clashes between anti-government protestors and the military escalating in the Thai capital, people both in and outside the country have been asking what exactly is going on and how it all came about? Finding the complexity of the situationView More >
Pompidou Center opens satellite in Metz
On May 12 France’s national museum of modern art, the Pompidou Center, inaugurated its satellite space in the northeastern city of Metz, capital of the Lorraine region. Pompidou Center Metz has already gained worldwide distinction for the design of itsView More >
Ochiai Tam and his ‘Artist Orchestra’ debut
Event To celebrate the opening of his solo show Spies are only revealed when they get caught this Saturday at the Watari-um in Tokyo, Ochiai Tam has organized and will perform in his very own, all-friends, all-artist orchestra. Made upView More >
Aleksandr Rodchenko & Varvara Stepanova
‘Visions of Constructivism’ April 24 – June 20, 2010 Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Aleksandr Rodchenko – Kino-glaz (Cine-Eye) (1924), poster for the film Kino-glaz by Dziga Vertov, lithography. Collection of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. © TheView More >
Makoto Aida
‘E-Baka’ May 6 to June 5, 2010 Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo Ash Color Mountain (Work in Progress) (2009- ), acrylic on canvas, 300 x 700 cm. An artist of prodigious technical proficiency, Makoto Aida generally employs his talent to perverseView More >
Miyanaga Aiko and Sekine Naoko: Doubles lumières
14 April – 26 June 2010 Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris Left: Miyanaga Aiko Post – Scene (detail) 2010 Mailboxes, naphthalene and resin Right: Sekine Naoko A picture drawn at night (detail, set of two) 2010 View More >