12.17 – 1.30 Ardel’s Third Place Gallery（Bangkok） Treasure Box 2008 Egg tempera on teak wood 41 x 51 cm The first solo exhibition of the co-founder of the product design brand Propaganda. Metta Sudsawad’s tempera paintings speakView More >
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Paul Chan on his New Orleans project
■Event Tickets are now on sale for the Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist-activist Paul Chan’s extraordinary live multimedia presentation about his November 2007 productions in New Orleans of Waiting for Godot. Chan staged five performances of the production to localView More >
Exhibitions open this week (12.28-1.3)
in Japan* Gilles Barbier L’Hospice/The Nursing Home 2002 Mori Art Museum Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love http://www.mori.art.museum/ Hours: 10:00 – 22:00 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Rebecca Horn Rebellion in Silence Dialogue between Raven and WhaleView More >
Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile
12.19 – 5.23 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa) Image from The General’s Smile 2009 Multiple-channel video installation Installation view at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Photo Kioku Keizo Chinese film and video artist Yang Fudong’s first solo exhibitionView More >
Tabaimo
Originality manifested in what we choose An artist who presents scenes from contemporary living, images emblematic of Japan, and in recent years, her own inner life, via video installations featuring hand-drawn pictures and colors and lines reminiscent of ukiyo-e prints,View More >
A combination of the highest skills and greatest passion
The Batsheva Dance Company’s FURO (2006) marked Tabaimo’s first foray into collaboration with dance. The commission came from the company’s artistic director who fell hopelessly in love with the artist’s Japanese Bathhouse. What was it that drew the world-renowned choreographerView More >
Philagrafika 2010
dolefullhouse 2007 Still image from a single-channel Blu-ray video projection with sound Dimensions variable © Tabaimo Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi From January – April 2010, Philadelphia will host the inaugural edition of Philagrafika, a print-related art festival involving more thanView More >
Miyake Saori receives VOCA prize 2010
Miyake Saori (left) a secret talk, and Bed Gelatin silver prints Photo © Ueno Norihiro The exhibition touted as the steppingstone to success for emerging Japanese artists, Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) has announced its award-winners for the 17th edition.View More >
Araki Nobuyoshi: 2THESKY, my Ender
12.19 – 2010.1.9 Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi) 2THESKY my Ender 2009 An exhibition staged to coincide with the release of a photo-collection published by Shinchosha of the same title. Since 2 January 2009, Araki has been creating a diary-like series ofView More >
Visionaire 57 takes form of electronic daily art calendar
Visionaire’s 57th issue and first in digital format, ‘2010’, presents 365 artworks organized into an electronic daily calendar selected by 52 curators, designers, architects, and collectors from around the world. Among those making the selections were Hans Ulrich Obrist, HerzogView More >
Lyon Biennale X
The Spectacle of the Everyday 2009.9.16 – 2010.1.3 La Sucrière, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bichat Warehouse, Bullukian Foundation (Lyon, France) http://www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/ by Yu Hsiao-hwei (Paris-based independent art writer) Founded in 1991, the Lyon Biennale is celebrating its 10th anniversary withView More >
Tenmyouya Hisashi: Furyu – Extravagant
12.16 – 2010.1.30 Mizuma Art Gallery (Ichigaya Tamachi) Interwining Thoughts 2009 Acrylic, gold leaf, wood 180×165.5cm Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery A solo show by the Heisei painter and advocate of Neo Nihonga christens the Mizuma Art Gallery’s new space in Ichigaya. TheView More >