‘The Tropics: view from the middle of the globe’ March 13 – June 12, 2010 The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok Vong Phaophanit – Still from the video installation All That’s Solid Melts into Air (2005/06). © Vong Phaophanit.View More >
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Anish Kapoor
27 April – 19 June 2010 SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Yanaka) Untitled, 2009, Steel, 300x300x41cm Photo Dave Morgan, courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery The first solo show in Tokyo in five years by contemporary art giant Anish KapoorView More >
Call for Frieze Writer’s Prize 2010
Award Frieze magazine is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its annual Frieze Writer’s Prize, established in 2006 to support emerging critics. Writers are invited to submit an unpublished review (700 words in English, translations permitted)View More >
Opening/Closing this week（5.24-30）
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Pomdejou (part）, 2010, oil on canvas Botan Yasuyoshi: dodo 5.28 – 6.26 MA2 Gallery（Ebisu）[MAP] Psychoanalysis 5.29 – 8.1 Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya [MAP] Closing this week Through 5.25 Kitazume Jun hpgrp GalleryView More >
Hiroshi Sugimoto tries hand at puppetry
Hiroshi Sugimoto – Installation view of “Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2008-09. Foreground: Heian period Juichimen Kannon figure (wood, c. 10-11 centuries); Background: Silver gelatin print photos from the “Seascapes” series (1980-95).View More >
Where is Architecture?
Seven Installations by Japanese Architects 29 April – 8 August Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Takebashi) Ito Toyo, Study model for installation Shedding light on the creative process of a discipline built on solving problems posed by myriadView More >
Tsuzuki Kyoichi opens show in Hiroshima
Exhibition “I’m a journalist, not an artist.” Thus declares Tsuzuki Kyoichi at the entrance to his solo show opening to the public tomorrow at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. After writing and editing for magazines on aView More >
To Reperform or Not to Reperform
Doryun Chong on Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist is Present’ at MoMA Since March 14 of this year, Marina Abramović has been sitting in the grand atrium inside the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, every single moment that theView More >
Gwangju Biennale takes intimate look at lives of images
Unidentified Prisoner, Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (c. 1975-79), photograph. ⓒ The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide, Cambodia/Doug Niven (New York) As Asia gears up for its periodic convergence of large-scale international art festivals in cities across theView More >
Arakawa Shusaku（1936-2010）
Left: Arakawa Shusaku & Madeline Gins Right: Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park Conceptual artist Arakawa Shusaku died in New York on May 19. He was 73. Arakawa began his career as a jockey for the avant-garde movement inView More >
Kaikai Kiki opens new space in Nakano
Installation view of works at Hidari Zingaro, 2010 Murakami Takashi’s art production company, Kaikai Kiki, has opened a new space called Hidari Zingaro in the otaku shopping mall, Nakano Broadway. The gallery is said to take its name fromView More >
Molecular Production and the Cultural Mainstream
Vasif Kortun on the Case of the Evaporating Art Center In cities such as Istanbul, Madrid and many others, the disappearance of medium-scale institutions seems to have intensified in recent years. Euphemistically called “art centers,” “ICAs,” “kunstvereins” and so on,View More >