Event Tonight (Saturday 27 March) Tokyo’s Roppongi district holds its annual art all-nighter. Among the host of events, artist Tsubaki Noboru will unveil a new work and performance and the French performance troupe Compagnie des Quidams will takeView More >
Japan* Opening this week >>Art museum gallery list Kamei Toru 3.29 – 4.24 GALLERY NARUYAMA（Kudanshita）[MAP] Kobayashi Kaori: Core 3.30 – 4.24 Megumi Ogita Gallery（Kyobashi）[MAP] Inoue Juri, Sahara Kazuhito, Takeuchi Yoshiro: UNTITLED -Painting- 4.2 – 25 hpgrp Gallery Tokyo（Shibuya）[MAP] ARTView More >
Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Teppei Kaneuji’s ‘Post-Something’ at ShugoArts White paintings, cloisonnism, coffee staining, and clippings of brushstrokes and touches of paint… or in other words painterliness; and seals, figures, driftwood, pipes, and wrapping paper… or in other wordsView More >
Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Kaneuji Teppei’s Post-Something at Shugo Arts White paintings, cloisonnism, coffee staining, and clippings of brushstrokes and touches of paint… or in other words painterliness; and seals, figures, driftwood, pipes,View More >
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series © Tate Tate Modern has invited the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a site-specific work for the gallery’s Turbine Hall, a space 35 meters in height and 152 metersView More >
4O0OqdIoOPQ The new multi-use Rolex Learning Center is located on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, which overlooks Lake Geneva and the Alps. Open to the public as well as students, it will act as a hubView More >
Event Handa Masanori study 2010 © Masanori Handa The last installment of curator Amano Kazuo’s yearlong exhibition series Metamorphosis: Objects Today underway at gallery αM features an installation by Handa Masanori covering the gallery walls in materials used asView More >
Auction Christie’s First Open Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 11 March realized a total of $7,552,900 from 146 (of 168) lots sold. The top lot was Wayne Thiebaud’s Valley River (1995, oil on canvas) fetching $842,500 (est. $200-300,000), followedView More >
Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together 2.26 – 3.14 http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Morakot (Emerald) 2007 Tara Donovan Untitled (Styrofoam Cups) 2008 Li Mu Blue books 2008 Installation view of Praneet Soi’s works Raeda Saadeh Vacuum 2007 Photos: Tomo Suzuki
Ernest Fenollosa – the unacknowledged source of simulationism? To those interested in the history of Japanese modern art, the name Ernest Fenollosa will be especially familiar. In particular, together with his assistant Okakura Tenshin, he dedicated himself to reviving andView More >
20 February – 27 March 2010 hiromiyoshii (Kiyosumi) The first show in Japan in two-and-a-half years of the creative unit headed by Hiro Sugiyama. A series of visual panels rising from the center of the gallery space likeView More >
Japan* Opening this week >>Art museum gallery list Wataya Osamu: Drowning in flame 3.23 – 4.4 Photographers’ gallery (Shinjuku) [MAP] O JUN Life in the Mountain – the 1st day2009. photo: Miyajima Kei O JUN: Mt. O JUNView More >