Event The art fair produced by Murakami Takashi in which young artists present their own work on an individual basis, last year saw its first staging in Taiwan. Back in Tokyo this year, the organizers have just announced that artView More >
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Grid Versus Chaos
9 Jan – 5 Feb Gallery VER (Bangkok) MAP OFFICE Simply enjoy the scenery 2009 © MAP OFFICE Three Hong Kong-based artists/units – Amy Cheung, who represented Hong Kong at the 52nd Venice Biennale; the artist/architect duo, MAP Office, whoView More >
Yamakawa Fuyuki premieres new work at PPAF
Event bjxqdV1pxhA The Khoomei singer and multitalented artist – as evidenced by his installation at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama and appearance in 4.48 psicosis at the Festival/Tokyo 09 Autumn program – will premiere his new BlackView More >
Art for Haiti charity auction
An impromptu art auction organized to aid relief efforts following the devastating earthquake Haiti on 12 January. Art for Haiti will take place in the form of a silent auction tomorrow evening in Los Angeles. All funds raised will beView More >
Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s
16 Jan – 4 Apr The National Museum of Art, Osaka Nara Yoshitomo The Little Judge 2001 Private Collection ©Yoshitomo Nara Photo Yoshitaka Uchida Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery An exhibition focusing on new figurative painting from the mid-1990s to present that showcasesView More >
Tabaimo: Danmen
2009.12.11 – 2010.3.3 Yokohama Museum of Art http://www.yaf.or.jp/yma by Shinsan Nameko (Manga artist, columnist) Akunin Installation view of Yokohama Museum of Art 2009 © Ufer! Art Documentary, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi In Danmen Tabaimo has delivered a showView More >
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
Shirin Neshat Women Without Men 2009 The second staging of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions will take place this February. Taking ‘Searching Songs’ as its theme and striving to share and debate visions of new mediaView More >
Boltanski installation at Grand Palais
Exhibition Christian Boltanski Personnes 2010 The Grand Palais, Paris The third edition of MONUMENTA, in which a leading international contemporary artist is invited to create a new site-specific work for the 13,500 m² Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris,View More >
Naito Rei （2009）
I want to share quietly the ephemerality and fragility of the things that affect me deep inside Portrait: Nagare Satoshi An artist whose delicate style enables her to transform often subtle feelings and even drops of water into artworks, hasView More >
What is Japanese Art 5: Tsumura Kosuke (part 1)
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Tsumura Kosuke (part 1) Text in Japanese. Tsumura Kosuke Left: Queen Giddra 2008 Mixed media 38x42x23cm Rght: Borderless Frame 2008 Mixed media 90x11cm Doragogh 2008 Oi on canvas 61x50cm Courtesy the artist and NANZUKA UNDERGROUND
‘Ginka’ & ‘High Fashion’ to stop publishing
Left: Ginka; right: High Fashion Bunka Publishing Bureau has announced it will cease publishing the magazines Ginka and High Fashion as of February. Ginka, a quarterly taking the aesthetics of traditional Japanese living including ceramics and textiles as itsView More >
Jeffrey Deitch named MOCA’s next director
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) has appointed New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as the museum’s new director. He begins his tenure on 1 June. Deitch has a 30-year career as an independent curator who has organized noteworthyView More >