23 January – 27 February 2010 Kenji Taki Gallery (Nagoya) Installation view at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus (NY) 2009 Kito’s first solo show since his return to Japan after a year of living and working in New York featuresView More >
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21st century museum summit in Shonan
Event The fourth Museum Summit: Designing Circuits that Connect People and Works of Art to be held in late February is seeking attendees. The two-day summit will include keynote speeches by philosophers and cognitive psychologists, documentary videos and presentations byView More >
Opening/Closing this week（2.1-7）
Japan* Opening this week Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan / Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology 2.2 – 3.22 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo（Kiyosumi）[MAP] http://www.artfrontgraphics.com/ David BOWEN『growth modeling device』Installation 13th Japan Media Arts Festival 2.3 – 2.14 TheView More >
ART iT contributor best five exhibitions of 2009
We canvassed the ART iT writer/official-blogger contingent asking them to name their five favorite shows – in any part of the world – in 2009. Here we present the lists of the 24 who responded, with comments where these wereView More >
Contemporary art in 2009 and 2010
The ‘noughties’ now dispatched, a new decade is upon us. Amid a change in government in Japan, the loss of some big names in the entertainment world, and ongoing economic turmoil, we look back on contemporary art in 2009, andView More >
Reflections on 2009 and the first decade of the 21st century
– With special reference to Murakami Takashi’s GEISAI, Mori Yoshitaka’s ideology of the street, and Akasegawa Genpei and Yamashita Yuji’s Nihon Bijutsu Oendan cheerleaders for Japanese art by Sawaragi Noi The brief was to take a retrospective look at 2009,View More >
Looking back on 2009 | Shimizu Minoru
by Shimizu Minoru Influenced by the Lehman shock of September 2008, 2009 was in many respects an inward-looking, backward-looking year for the art world, which became more conservative to match the period of recession in which money was hardly movingView More >
Suzuki Tomoaki
22 January – 20 February 2010 SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Yanaka) Nena 2009 Lime wood, acrylic paint 53.2 x 16.5 x 14.3 cm Small wooden figures around 60 cm high, each impeccably carved and colored, stand on the floor of theView More >
Maeda Keisuke, Azuma Yoshitaka, Ishimori Goro@hiromiyoshii
Maeda Keisuke the patchery Azuma Yoshitaka DILEMMA Ishimori Goro Possibility of Translation 1.16～2.13 hiromiyoshii （Kiyosumi) http://www.hiromiyoshii.com Maeda Keisuke the patchery Azuma Yoshitaka DILEMMA Ishimori Goro Possibility of Translation ART iT ArtPartmer: hiromiyoshii
Suzuki Akio + Yagi Lyota: sound landscapes
Exhibition An exhibition by two artists known for their unique expressive approaches involving sound opens today in Yokohama. Suzuki Akio sends visitors out into the streets of Azamino, map in hand, to find Oto-date (sound spots) he has marked withView More >
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010 Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) Gonkar Gyatso Angel 2007 152 x 121.5 cm Stickers and pencil on treated paper Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery December marked theView More >
Exhibition-style art fair debut: G-tokyo
Art fair Yamaguchi Akira Independent Research (The Art of Electric Pole Arrangement) 2008 Pen, watercolor, sumi (Japanese ink) on paper Detail (one of 18 panels) Photo Ota Takumi © Yamaguchi Akira Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery This weekend will see the debut of aView More >