Your chance encounter 11.21 – 3.22 21st Century museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa http://www.kanazawa21.jp/ ARTiT Snapshots：Olafur Eliasson @ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2) ARTiT Picks：Olafur Eliasson: Your chance encounter
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Rebecca Horn @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
10.31 – 2.14 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/ ART iT Picks：Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence
2009 Venice Biennale closes
The 53rd International Art Exhibition closed its gates on 22 November. Opening on 7 June with a record 77 national participations, during its 24 weeks running the biennale welcomed a record 375,705 visitors (an average of 2,223 per day), markingView More >
Talk: Koike Kazuko x ART iT Ozaki Tetsuya
Koike Kazuko Photo Tomita Satomi For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes creative director Koike Kazuko. With the launching and running of Japan’s first alternative space, the Saga-cho Exhibit Space, she helped built the foundation for Japan’sView More >
Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur
10.16 – 2.28 National Gallery of Victoria Salad days 2005 Jelutong (Dyera costulata), maple (Acer sp.) 102.0 x 102.0 x 23.8 cm © Ricky Swallow Photo: Andy Keate Courtesy Darren Knight Gallery (Sydney) Ricky Swallow’s first major soloView More >
What is Japanese Art 4: Hasegawa Yuko (part 1)
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko (part 1) Text in Japanese only. Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko Olafur Eliasson Quadruple Suncooker Lamp 2006 Private collection, Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Photo Kioku Keizo Hussein Chalayan LED Dress 2007 Hussein Chalayan inView More >
City of resonance: Sendai Art Walk 2009
Hirano Jiro 12 billion light years Installation view at Art Tower Mito, 2001 Sendai Art Walk is a multi-event biennial launched in 2005 with the aim of promoting the visual arts. On the roster this year are exhibitions of works byView More >
Ishikawa Naoki: ARCHIPELAGO
Book Photographer Ishikawa Naoki will hold a talk and booksigning to mark the publication of Archipelago, a collection of photos from his travels to Japan’s northern and southern islands that question what is Japan, what is a national border, whatView More >
Fiona Foley: Forbidden
11.10 – 1.31 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney HHH #1 2004 Ultrachrome print on paper 76 x 101 cm Photo Dennis Cowley Courtesy the artist, Andrew Baker Art Dealer (Brisbane) and Niagara Galleries (Melbourne) A leading Australian artist who isView More >
Opening/Closing this week (11.23-29)
Japan* Opening this week Furukawa Taku: Petit Manga 11.24 – 12.3 ASK? art space kimura (Kyoubashi) http://www2.kb2-unet.ocn.ne.jp/ask/default.htm Nishimitsu Yusuke: NEW GAMES 11.27 – 12.16 AD&A gallery (Osaka) http://www.adanda.jp/ Carolina Raquel Antich: Nightfall 11.27 – 12.20 Art-U Room (Jingumae) http://www.art-u-room.com/art_u_room/ SatoView More >
BEAMING ARTS x Tsuda Nao
■Event See Bach See #7 ©Tsuda Nao Courtesy hiromiyoshii Since 2008, BEAMS has been expanding on their BEAMING ARTS project as a vehicle for bridging the everyday realm of fashion and the otherworldly realm of art. This year, takingView More >
Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)
French artist Jeanne-Claude died on 18 November due to complications of a brain aneurysm. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude had been collaborating with her husband Christo since they made their first work together in Cologne in 1961. They worked under Christo’sView More >