The sense of a person has wider contours The VOCA exhibition presents two-dimensional works by promising contemporary artists up to the age of forty nominated by members of the professional art fraternity. We talked to 2010 VOCA PrizeView More >
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The 8th Gwangju Biennale: 10,000 Lives
Biennale Ydessa Hendeles Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) 2002 Courtesy the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation The Eighth Gwangju Biennale will be held 3 September – 7 November, based on the theme ‘10,000 Lives’. Under the directorship of MassimilianoView More >
Tsumura Kosuke: MODE less CODE
20 February – 20 March 2010 NANZUKA UNDERGROUND (Shirokane) Fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke, famed for his FINAL HOME label, has expanded his practice over the last several years to traverse the realms of fashion and contemporary art. InView More >
2009 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Winner
Prize Debbie Han Seated Three Graces Korean artist Debbie Han was the winner of the 2009 Sovereign Asian Art Prize for her photographic work Seated Three Graces. By combining the nude bodies of real, contemporary Asian women with idealizedView More >
Kimsooja: Earth Water Fire Air
8 January – 28 March 2010 Atelier Hermès (Seoul) Throughout the ages and regions of the world starting with ancient Greece, the Four Elements have been regarded as the essence of creation, change and breakdown of matter. ComprisingView More >
Art at the Sento
Event Four days of submersion in an event that aims to ‘bring art back within reach and strip [it] bare’. Held on the second floor of a Tokyo sento, plans call for exhibits and sale of works, performances, and talkView More >
Talk: Tsubaki Noboru x ART iT Ozaki Tetsuya
Event For the next round of his talk-session series, ART iT editor-in-chief Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes artist Tsubaki Noboru. Currently head of the Space Design Course at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Tsubaki has consistently explored the relationship between artView More >
Biennale of Sydney features announced
Biennial Features of the 17th Biennale of Sydney were announced last week by artistic director David Elliott. Based on the curatorial theme ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, the former founding director ofView More >
Park Chan-Kyong and Sean Snyder: Brinkmanship
14 February – 18 April 2010 REDCAT (San Francisco) Park Chan-Kyong Three Cemeteries 2009-10 Photographs, audio Commissioned by REDCAT, Los Angeles Courtesy the artist This exhibition is a collaboration between artists Park Chan-Kyong, based in Seoul, and SeanView More >
Opening/Closing this week（2.15-21）
Japan* Opening this week >>Art museum gallery list Alfredo JaarMUXIMA 2005 © Alfredo Jaar Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions Searching Songs 2.19 – 28 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography（Ebisu）[MAP] Tsumura Kosuke: MODE less CODE 2.20View More >
Blood drive at MAM
As a special event connected to its Medicine and Art exhibition, the Mori Art Museum is hosting a blood drive in cooperation with the Japanese Red Cross. Today and tomorrow, a special area of the gallery will be designated forView More >
Sotheby’s London sale results
Auction Sotheby’s contemporary-art evening sale in London on 10 February soared past its pre-sale estimates of £32-45 million to deliver total sales of £54,074,450. Forty-seven of the 77 lots on offer were from the Austrian-based Sammlung Lenz Schönberg collection assembledView More >