Ai Weiwei files suit against Civil Affairs Ministry for refusing to release information on its handling of 2008 Sichuan earthquake. (Associated Press) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5glSIWJhUVswbTzVXHtFa9S4TeMYw Venice Biennale 2011: New Zealand picks Michael Parekowhai for its pavilion (ART INFO) http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33767/the-2011-venice-biennale-new-zealand-picks-michael-parekowhai-for-its-pavilion/ P.S. 1 ContemporaryView More >
13 February – 6 April 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT (Roppongi) Over The River, Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado 2006 Collage in two parts © Christo Photo Wolfgang Volz The first exhibition in 15 years by the artist couple whoView More >
Art fair The 2010 edition of New York’s Armory Show art fair opens to the public today. In addition to the main venue, which premieres new works by living artists, The Armory Show – Modern segment, new since last year,View More >
Tokyo’s Akihabara district is about to witness the opening of a new art center dedicated to ‘creating new forms of art’. Housed in the now custom-renovated former Chiyoda Rensei Junior High School, 3331 Arts Chiyoda is modeled as an ‘alternativeView More >
17 January – 10 May 2010 Devi Art Foundation (New Delhi) Farida Batool Line of Control Lenticular print A group exhibition curated by Rashid Rana, bringing together the works of 45 Pakistani artists. The post-colonial quest for regional identity producedView More >
Book Artist Aida Makoto has published his collection of essays previously published serially over the two years from October 2007 through November 2009 in Gentosha’s PR magazine Sei sei kyo. He continues to pen the series. The book’s obi featuresView More >
3 March – 5 May 2010 The National Art Center, Tokyo (Roppongi) O JUN 3m (detail) 2006-2007 Pigment, Japanese pigment, gouache, paper Photo YAMADA Shinjiro ©O JUN Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery Held annually by the National Art Center, Tokyo sinceView More >
Japan* Opening this week >>Art museum gallery list Funakoshi Katsura: New works 3.2 – 4.10 Nishimura Gallery (Nihonbashi) [MAP] Fukuda Naoyo The Door Into Summer 2003 Photo: Iida Hiroyuki Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art 3.3View More >
2.10 – 3.13 kiyu http://www.mizuma-art.co.jp/
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 3: Darkness and Colors Between the “ethic of presenting things as they are” and the artificial space-time of “occupation,” the black and white photographs that serve as an expression of theView More >
The sense of harmony is probably more a sense of uncertainty Conjuring up a blazing orange sun in London’s Tate Modern, and giant artificial waterfalls in New York Harbor: with his delicate manipulations of light and shadow, mist and breeze,View More >
Book Suzuki Hiraku’s first published collection of drawings, titled GENGA, will be released this weekend. Suzuki is known for his live painting performances rendered in natural materials such as clay and leaves, on substrates that range from walls to photocopyView More >