‘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 >
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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 >
‘Rem(a)inders’
April 10 to August 29, 2010 Galleria Continua, Beijing Michelangelo Pistoletto – Rem(a)inders (2010), metal Buddha sculpture, used clothes, electrical components, wood, variable dimensions. Since it opened in 2005, the Beijing branch of Italy’s Galleria Continua has been known asView More >
Taishin Arts Awards
Award Left: Hsu Su-Chen and Lu Chien-Ming Plant-Matter NeoEden: Born in a Vegetable Patch & Material World in the Amis Tribe of Riverbank Right: Visual Arts Award ceremony The Taishin Arts Awards recognize the best of Taiwanese visual and performing artsView More >
Opening/Closing this week（5.17-23）
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list identity, body it curated by Takashi Azumaya 5.21 – 6.19 Nichido Contemporary Art（Kyobashi）[MAP] Furuya Seiichi: Aus den Fugen 5.21 – 8.31 The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum（Shizuoka）[MAP] Imazu Kei: Flash 5.22 – 6.19View More >
Japanese curators make mark at Korean biennials
Not one but two Japanese curators will be on the scene for this year’s triumvirate of large-scale international art festivals in Korea. Independent curator and art critic Takashi Azumaya is directing the 2010 Busan Biennale, while independent curator Fumihiko SumitomoView More >
Tate Modern celebrates 10 years with new acquisitions
Kader Attia – Untitled (Ghardaïa) (2009), cooked couscous, edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy Tate Modern, London. In anticipation of its 10th anniversary later this year, London’s Tate Modern has announced a list of new acquisitions since 2009 thatView More >
Simon Fujiwara wins 2010 Cartier Award
British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara is the winner of the 2010 Cartier Award, it has been announced. Organized in conjunction with the annual Frieze Art Fair, London, the competitive award recognizes emerging artists living outside the UK, providing the winner 10,000View More >
Morimura Yasumasa A Requiem: Art on top of the battlefield
11 March – 9 May 2010 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography http://syabi.com by Yamagishi Kaoru A Requiem: Remembrance Parade/1945, USA 2010 Since the mid-1980s Morimura Yasumasa has explored the possibilities of Japanese artistic expression beginning in the imitation of WesternView More >
Tokyo Midtown Award 2010 Art Competition
Award Exhibition view of 2009 Art Competition Tokyo Midtown is calling for submissions for both the art and design segments of the Tokyo Midtown Award 2010. Launched in 2008, this year marks the third edition of the competition that hasView More >
Henk Visch and Nishizawa Ryue: part 2
It’s here already. The only thing you have to do is agree with it. < Part 1 Horizontal/vertical/revolving: the artist and architect’s senses of space HV: I went to Naoshima five years ago, alone, and I was amazed when IView More >
Henk Visch and Nishizawa Ryue: part 1
It’s here already. The only thing you have to do is agree with it. Henk Visch is known as a reclusive sculptor, and an artist with a gift for subtly manipulating the properties of spaces. Nishizawa Ryue meanwhile is aView More >