10.17 – 1.10 The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (Tai Chung) Ha Bong-Ho Red Signal of NY A group exhibition co-organized with the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea. The selected works explore aspects of the spiritual world ofView More >
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Critical Fieldwork 4
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 2: 11:02 Nagasaki If “Japan as it really exists” is absent, where is the reality, the “decisive moment,” of post-war “Japan”? In 1961, 16 years after the moment the atomic bombView More >
Opening/Closing this week (12.21-27)
Japan* Opening this week Ishikawa Naoki: ARCHIPELAGO 12.24 – 2010.2.13 Cannon Gallery S (Shinagawa) http://cweb.canon.jp/s-tower/floor/1f/gallery/archipelago/index.html Kobayashi Fumiko Traveling・No return 2009 80cm × 80cm Lamda print Abe Daiske / Itozaki Kimio / Kobayashi Fumiko / Hicosaka Toshiaki / Yagi Takafumi: discollage 12.26 –View More >
Overseas media pickup
Pompidou Center reopens on 17 December for the first time since 23 November (New York Times) http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/pompidou-center-reopens/ Sotheby’s, Christie’s contemporary-art sales totals drop 75%. (Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aAMthW5Uj.h4 British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East. (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/British-Museum-and-Tate-expand-focus-on-Middle-East/19848
AICA/USA Awards 2009
■Award The International Association of Art Critics, United States section has announced its annual selection of award-winning US shows and performances for 2009. Among this year’s contemporary offerings the AICA/USA Award for Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally went to WilliamView More >
Odani Motohiko: Hollow
12.9 – 3.28 Maison Hermès 8F Forum（Ginza） Hollow: Duplex 2009 Installation view A solo exhibition by the artist who at a young 31 represented the Japanese pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale and whose practice continues to move freely across aView More >
Miyake Saori @ Yuka Sasahara Gallery
CONSTELLATION 2 11.21 – 12.26 http://www.yukasasaharagallery.com/ ART iT ArtPartners：Yuka Sasahara Gallery
Mori Yuko @ Ohshima Fine Art
Chiral. Achiral. 11.21-12.18 http://www.ohshimafineart.com/
Book: Artist in residencies around the world
A detailed guide to some 90 artist-residency programs throughout the world together with artworks and comments – including why they applied and the significance of the experience – by more than 100 artists who have attended them. The bookView More >
Paramodel @ MORI YU GALLERY TOKYO
Paramodelic motor-pool 11.21 – 12.26 http://moriyu-gallery.com/
SHINCHIKA
11.28 – 1.16 (gallery closed 12.26-1.5) Ota Fine Arts (Kachidoki) Shinchika is a five-artist unit: one female, four male. Having each based themselves since graduating art school in different locations around Japan, they now collaborate by exchanging files on theView More >
Bijutuken (art dogs) howl!?: symposium
■Event Bijutsuken (INU) is a rather loosely active body of artists and critics orgainzed to think about art and its doctrines. For their fourth event they’ve planned a symposium titled ‘Art/Society/Revolution’, a realistic exchange among the panelists touching upon aView More >