III. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances Wilhelm Sasnal addresses the influence of music on his artistic development and walking the line between the trivial and significant. Untitled (2001), acrylic on canvas, 153 x 180 cm. ARTView More >
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Wilhelm Sasnal: Essay
Wilhelm Sasnal: Overturning the Everyday By Akiko Kasuya Untitled (The Concert) (2009), oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm. Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnów, a small city just outside Poland’s former capital, Kraków. After studying architecture atView More >
17th Biennale of Sydney
12 May – 1 August Multiple venues in Sydney Lightning Fields Illuminated 003 Black and white film with light box 177.8 x 111.8 x 10.2 cm Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi The largest exhibition in the Biennale’s 37-yearView More >
Art Fair Tokyo gets new executive director
Art fair Kaneshima Takahiro (b. 1977, Tokyo) Having established itself firmly on the springtime art calendar, Art Fair Tokyo is set to see new leadership when director of FEC (Far East Contemporaries) Kaneshima Takahiro takes over as the new ExecutiveView More >
Opening/Closing this week（5.31-6.6）
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Kumazawa Mikiko 6.2 – 7.3 Mizuma Action（Nakameguro）[MAP] untitled (fl.s.d-021) © Yuichi Higashionna Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates Higashionna Yuichi: fluorescent / new prints & drawings 6.2 – 7.11 NADiff Gallery（Ebisu）[MAP] Yamashita Ritsuko 6.4 –View More >
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
On May 29, actor Dennis Hopper died at the age of 74 due to complications from prostate cancer. Although he is best known for his role in Hollywood films alongside leading men from James Dean to Jack Nicholson and KeanuView More >
Christie’s Hong Kong achieves rare white glove sale
Coinciding with the Art HK international art fair, Christie’s May 29 evening sale of Asian Contemporary and Chinese 20th Century Art achieved a rare 100 percent of lots sold. The first ever “white glove” sale for contemporary art in Asia,View More >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 7
To Whom Does Art Belong? On the forced resignation of Fram Kitagawa (Part I) As I write, the forced resignation this March of Fram Kitagawa as director at the Niigata City Art Museum, a position he assumed in 2007 afterView More >
Shiseido Art Egg call for submissions
Award Murayama Goro Left: God is in the parts, 2009. Right: The interpenetration is done, the drift is done, 2009. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Photo Kioku Keizo Submissions for the fifth ‘shiseido art egg’, an annualView More >
Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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Aida Makoto: E-BAKA
6 May – 5 June 2010 Mizuma Art Gallry (Ichigaya Tamachi) Ash Color Mountain (detail – work in progress) 2009 -, acrylic on canvas, 300x700cm. ©Aida Makoto, courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery Mizuma Art Gallery’s first solo show at its new,View More >
Araki Nobuyoshi: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old
Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old 8 May – 5 June 2010 Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi) Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year Old 2010 B & W print Taka Ishii Gallery’s annual solo exhibition held toView More >