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 >
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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’,View 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 atView 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 exhibitionView More >
Hariu ichiro (1925-2010)
Art and literary critic Hariu Ichiro died on May 26 in Kawasaki. The cause of death was attributed to heart failure. He was 84. Hariu’s writings during the 1950s and ’60s, focusing primarily on avant-garde art, earned him the reputationView More >
ART HK10 opens to public tomorrow
Art Fair The third edition of Hong Kong’s modern and contemporary art fair previews today with more than 150 galleries participating from 29 countries. Alongside name galleries from major cities throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the US areView More >
The Flower of May
12 May – 13 June 2010 Gwangju Museum of Art Kunsthalle Gwangju Lee Bul Heaven and Earth 2007 128 x 768 x 768 cm Fiberglass, plywood, plaster, mortar, tiles, plastic, steel and ink May 1980. Thousands of civilianView More >
Venice Biennale appoints artistic director for 2011
The Venice Biennale has announced that Bice Curiger, a curator at Kunsthaus Zurich as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of Parkett magazine, will be the artistic director of 2011’s 54th Venice Biennale. A graduate of the University of Zurich, CurigerView More >
Weerasethakul wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Award HdW-08PN5-k Thai artist/filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970 in Bangkok) became the surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. The winning work, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, is a surreal tale aboutView More >