Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series © Tate Tate Modern has invited the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a site-specific work for the gallery’s Turbine Hall, a space 35 meters in height and 152 meters inView More >
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Rolex Learning Center open and running
4O0OqdIoOPQ The new multi-use Rolex Learning Center is located on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, which overlooks Lake Geneva and the Alps. Open to the public as well as students, it will act as a hubView More >
Handa Masanori solo show and symposium
Event Handa Masanori study 2010 © Masanori Handa The last installment of curator Amano Kazuo’s yearlong exhibition series Metamorphosis: Objects Today underway at gallery αM features an installation by Handa Masanori covering the gallery walls in materials used as cladding forView More >
Christie’s NY First Open posts positive results
Auction Christie’s First Open Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 11 March realized a total of $7,552,900 from 146 (of 168) lots sold. The top lot was Wayne Thiebaud’s Valley River (1995, oil on canvas) fetching $842,500 (est. $200-300,000), followedView More >
Adelaide Festival
Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together 2.26 – 3.14 http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Morakot (Emerald) 2007 Tara Donovan Untitled (Styrofoam Cups) 2008 Li Mu Blue books 2008 Installation view of Praneet Soi’s works Raeda Saadeh Vacuum 2007 Photos: Tomo Suzuki
Sawaragi Noi: Notes on Art and Current Events 5
Ernest Fenollosa – the unacknowledged source of simulationism? To those interested in the history of Japanese modern art, the name Ernest Fenollosa will be especially familiar. In particular, together with his assistant Okakura Tenshin, he dedicated himself to reviving andView More >
Enlightenment: AD 2010
20 February – 27 March 2010 hiromiyoshii (Kiyosumi) The first show in Japan in two-and-a-half years of the creative unit headed by Hiro Sugiyama. A series of visual panels rising from the center of the gallery space like a rowView More >
opening/Closing this week（3.22-28）
Japan* Opening this week >>Art museum gallery list Wataya Osamu: Drowning in flame 3.23 – 4.4 Photographers’ gallery (Shinjuku) [MAP] O JUN Life in the Mountain – the 1st day2009. photo: Miyajima Kei O JUN: Mt. O JUN 3.24 –View More >
Dan Graham
20 February – 27 March 2010 Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi) Ying/Yang Pavilion 2003 Tempered glass, steel, gravel, and water 2.1 x 3.35 x 3.35 meters Commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art Funds, List Visual Arts Center Installed at Simmons Hall, MIT A soloView More >
Takagi Cozue receives Kimura Ihei Award
Award Image from GROUND © Cozue Takagi, Courtesy TARO NASU The 35th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award, considered the Akutagawa Prize (for new writers of serious fiction) of the photography world, has been awarded this year to Takagi Cozue. TheView More >
MAD art school courses start in April
MAD (Making Art Different) is a series of courses that respond inquisitively to diverse aspects of contemporary art launched in 2001 by the non-profit organization of arts coordinators and curators AIT (Arts Initiative Tokyo). The tenth school year beginning inView More >
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today
29 January – 7 May 2010 Saatchi Gallery (London) Installation view Courtesy the Saatchi Gallery, London Despite a sluggish world economy, Indian contemporary art continues to garner attention. So has it also drawn the attention of Charles Saatchi, the personalityView More >