Award Mitsuya Toshihiko The indignant, 13th Taro Award winning work The winners of 13th Taro Award – established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Okamoto Taro manifested in his creative practice – have been announced. Twenty-two works fromView More >
Exhibition The first of a series of graduation shows by students of Oil & Japanese Painting at Tama Art University Kamonoge opens Tuesday 9 February. The department is characterized in its quest to foster new forms of expression in theView More >
5 February – 5 March 2010 Wako Works of Art (Hatsudai) 15.3.08 2008 Lacquer on photograph 10 x 15 cm © Gerhard Richter Courtesy Wako Works of Art Born in Dresden in 1932, Richter managed to reach West Berlin just sixView More >
Recent Works’Post-Something’ 1.26 – 2.27 ShugoArts (Kiyosumi) http://www.shugoarts.com ART iT articles ART iT Picks ART iT ArtPartner: ShugoArts
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Kobe Art Village Center launched its annual ‘1floor’ project in 2008 with the aim of supporting young artists and curators by allowing them use the KAVC gallery and 1room community space – in other words, an entire floor – toView More >
Maeda Keisuke the patchery Azuma Yoshitaka DILEMMA Ishimori Goro Possibility of Translation 16 January – 13 February 2010 hiromiyoshii (Kiyosumi) Left to right: Paintings by Maeda Keisuke, Azuma Yoshitaka, Ishimori Goro Three emerging artists present painted works in solo-show formats.View More >
The new year saw the launch of the new art space ‘island’, and 30 January marked the opening of their first exhibition, New World. Island is operated by former magical, ARTROOM director and staff Ito Haruka and Yuki Kayoko, artistView More >
METAMORPHOSIS – Objects today Vol.7 1.26 – 2.13 gallery αM (Bakuro-cho) http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/ ART iT articles Picks
Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art 6 February – 11 April 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Mori Junichi minawa 2008 Wood Courtesy void+ Each year since 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has selected a theme reflecting contemporary societyView More >
Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art 2.6 – 4.11 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/ Ogawa Atsuo Matsumoto Nao Shioyasu Tomoko Shioyasu Tomoko Yokouchi Kentaro Snapshots: MOT Annual (1) Snapshots: MOT Annual (2) Menber’s Giveaway: MOT Annual Tickets
Award The 2010 Ordway Prize recognizing the contributions of a curator and artist whose work has had a significant impact on the field of contemporary art was awarded to American curator Hamza Walker and Polish artist Artur Zmijewski. Cosponsored byView More >