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New York Photo Festival Opens
Event Shiga Lieko Lilly The third edition of the photo festival held annually since its launch in 2008 opens today in Brooklyn. Among the four main exhibitions, Hidden Books, Hidden Stories curated by playwright, musician and photographer Lou Reed includesView More >
Picasso breaks world auction record
Auction A painting by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) set a world record for any work of art at auction at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4 in New York. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust fetched US$106,482,500 (includingView More >
First International Triennale of Kogei
Exhibition Yee Sookyung Translated vase Photo: Shin Oh Seok Courtesy the artist and Ota Fine Arts After declaring itself the International City of Crafts in 1995 and organizing various subsequent related activities, Kanazawa has launched the First International Triennale of KogeiView More >
Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi
Alternative Humanities 29 April – 31 August 2010 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Left: Funakoshi Katsura By the Water, deep in the forest 2009 Private collection © Katsura Funakoshi Photo: Watanabe Osamu Right: Jan Fabre Ik laat mezelf leeglopen (dwerg) (I let myselfView More >
Opening/Closing this week（5.10-16）
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Trip in Kanazawa, 2010 Oil on canvas, 162x112cm Takahashi Nobuyuki 5.10 – 6.25 Base Gallery（Kayabacho）[MAP] Show yourself! Yuki Fujiwara 5.11 – 29 YOKOI FINE ART（Higashiazabu）[MAP] Nakamura Kengo: Without me 5.11 – 6.5View More >
Two Art Fairs Launch in Kyoto
Art fair The month of May will see two new art contemporary fairs take place consecutively – this weekend and next – in Kyoto. At Art Fair Kyoto more than 30 Japanese galleries, mainly Kyoto-based, display their wares in theView More >
Book: An Imperial Palace Museum Project
Book & Exhibition The concept behind An Imperial Palace Museum Project stemmed from the fantasy of gathering all the important works of art in Japan and housing them in a giant museum to be constructed in the Imperial Palace compound.View More >
Opening/Closing this week（5.3-9）
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Aida Makoto 5.6 – 6.5 Mizuma Art Gallery (Ichigaya-tamachi) [MAP] Toya Shigeo: minimalbaroque VI 5.8 – 6.12 Shugo Arts（Kiyosumi）[MAP] Araki Nobuyoshi: Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old 5.8 –View More >
Art Award Tokyo 2010
Award Exhibition view at Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, 2009 Launched in 2006 with the aim of discovering and fostering budding artists of exceptional talent, Art Award Tokyo is bestowed annually on works selected from the graduation shows of Japanese art schools.View More >
Yokoyama Yuichi first solo exhibiiton
geranium (detail), from New engineering © Yuichi Yokoyama 2000 The first large-scale solo exhibition of an artist whose work traverses the realms of manga and fine art. After studying painting at Musashino Art University, Yokoyama developed an expressive approach –View More >
Critical Fieldwork 7
Shape the paint, collage the shapes and make them form a painting Masahiro Sekiguchi’s ‘Plane B’ at Kodama Gallery Tokyo In Clyfford Still’s readymade, layered and collaged paintings (see my previous column), which call to mind walls upon which layersView More >