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 >
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’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 >
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 >
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 >
12.4 – 26 Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG (Bakurocho) http://roentgenwerke.com HUNCH-1000190.mephisto 2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ135xD13.5cm HUNCH-2001190.mephisto2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ135xD13.5cm HUNCH-1000190.mephisto (detail), 2009 HUNCH-3002190.mephisto 2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ30xD3cm ART iT ArtBlogs: Kanno Sakan
National art NPO network Arts NPO Link is to host an emergency forum on Japan’s arts and culture policy at Yokohama’s BankART on the 23rd (Wed/public holiday). In the wake of drastic cuts to cultural administration grants in November’s governmentView More >
Photo: Liad Baniel The Miami Beach art fairs – Art Basel Miami Beach, Scope, Pulse, and Art Asia – closed their 2009 editions on 6 December well attended. Art Basel, with more than 250 participating galleries, saw 42,000 visitors. Scope,View More >
■Exhibition Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project 2009 Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 2009, 4:30pm; 60 seconds Explosion area approximately 18.3 x 26.1 meters Gunpowder fuse, metal net for gunpowder fuse, scaffolding Photo Ihara Hiro Courtesy Cai Studio At sunsetView More >
METAMORPHOSIS – Objects today Vol.6: Kaneuji Teppei 11.28 – 12.26 http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/exhibition.php
An artist whose ‘sketches’ of contemporary Japan that have taken as their stages the bathhouse, the kitchen, the commuter train, and public toilet, making them a mirror to reflect her own inner life, now takes up ‘the generations’ as herView More >
■Event Left: Kim Sunjung Right: Azuma Hiroki Photo: Lee Seungmoo The Mori Art Museum is taking bookings for the last two lectures in its ten-part series exploring relations between art and society around the three themes of art, businessView More >