Exhibition Yee Sookyung Translated vase Photo: Shin Oh Seok Courtesy the artist and Ota Fine Arts After declaring itself the International City of Crafts in 1995 and organizing various subsequent related activities, Kanazawa has launched the First International TriennaleView More >
Alternative Humanities 29 April – 31 August 2010 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Left: Funakoshi Katsura By the Water, deep in the forest 2009 Private collection © Katsura Funakoshi Photo: Watanabe Osamu Right: Jan Fabre Ik laat mezelf leeglopen (dwerg) (I let myselfView More >
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Trip in Kanazawa, 2010 Oil on canvas, 162x112cm Takahashi Nobuyuki 5.10 – 6.25 Base Gallery（Kayabacho）[MAP] Show yourself! Yuki Fujiwara 5.11 – 29 YOKOI FINE ART（Higashiazabu）[MAP] Nakamura Kengo: Without me 5.11View More >
Art fair The month of May will see two new art contemporary fairs take place consecutively – this weekend and next – in Kyoto. At Art Fair Kyoto more than 30 Japanese galleries, mainly Kyoto-based, display their wares in theView More >
Book & Exhibition The concept behind An Imperial Palace Museum Project stemmed from the fantasy of gathering all the important works of art in Japan and housing them in a giant museum to be constructed in the ImperialView More >
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Aida Makoto 5.6 – 6.5 Mizuma Art Gallery (Ichigaya-tamachi) [MAP] Toya Shigeo: minimalbaroque VI 5.8 – 6.12 Shugo Arts（Kiyosumi）[MAP] Araki Nobuyoshi: Koki No Shashin: Photographs of A Seventy Year OldView More >
Award Exhibition view at Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, 2009 Launched in 2006 with the aim of discovering and fostering budding artists of exceptional talent, Art Award Tokyo is bestowed annually on works selected from the graduation shows of JapaneseView More >
geranium (detail), from New engineering © Yuichi Yokoyama 2000 The first large-scale solo exhibition of an artist whose work traverses the realms of manga and fine art. After studying painting at Musashino Art University, Yokoyama developed an expressive approachView More >
Shape the paint, collage the shapes and make them form a painting Masahiro Sekiguchi’s ‘Plane B’ at Kodama Gallery Tokyo In Clyfford Still’s readymade, layered and collaged paintings (see my previous column), which call to mind walls upon which layersView More >
3 April – 20 June Suntory Museum (Osaka) Janet Cardiff The 40 parts monet 2001 The final contemporary art exhibition to be held at the Suntory Museum in Osaka, which is scheduled to close its doors at theView More >
‘Chaos*Lounge 2010’ – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of “Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya” On April 16, artist and art critic Yohei Kurose gave a lecture in conjunction with Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI University (at theView More >
Chaos*Lounge 2010 – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya On April 16, artist and art critic Kurose Yohei gave a lecture in conjunction with Murakami Takashi’s GEISAI University (at the KakaiView More >