The Yokohama BankART-sponsored BankART school has announced its program for the January – March semester and is now accepting applications. Instructors this semester, who change according to the day of the week, include the butoh dancer Uesugi Mitsuyo and composerView More >
American abstract painter, Kenneth Noland, died on 5 January. He was 85. According to his wife Paige Rense, the editor in chief of Architectural Digest, the cause was cancer. Originally from North Carolina, Noland studied painting at the experimental BlackView More >
When you think about death you also start to think about life. A lust for life wells up inside. The opening of Araki Nobuyoshi’s solo exhibition 2THESKY, my Ender was thronged with guests yet at the same time evocative ofView More >
Book The latest collection of interviews conducted by the globetrotting curator who topped ArtReview‘s ‘Power 100’ list of the most influential members of the contemporary art world in 2009 has been released. Conducted mainly in 2006 and 2007, Hans UlrichView More >
12.12 – 2.14 Aomori Museum of Art / Towada Art Center Saito Yoshishige x Kikuchi Atsuki Positive and negative Co-organized by two relatively new Aomori museums, Love Love creates a platform for ‘encounter’ not only between artists, but alsoView More >
Event RMB City is the virtual city built by one of China’s most visible artists, Cao Fei, on the online virtual-reality platform Second Life. Now the city whose growth we observed in the artist’s solo exhibition last year at ShiseidoView More >
Japan* Opening this week Kinutani Koji: ARS VITA ESTA・VITA ARS ESTA 1.5 – 19 The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Art, Chinretsukan Gallery（Ueno） http://www.geidai.ac.jp/museum/news/news_ja.htm Hosoe Eikoh（Part 2） 1.6 – 16 tokinowasuremono（Aoyama） http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/index.html The 4th Shiseido Art Egg ExhibitionView More >
The Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) was established in 1997 by Chinese contemporary art collector Uli Sigg. The CCAA Artist Awards and Art Critic Awards are awarded every alternate year to promote the activities of Chinese artists and art criticsView More >
Overseas territories as cultural resource East Asia Image of Modern Ages exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Installation view of East Asia Image of Modern Ages, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2009 Oh Mijung’s new book Abe KoboView More >
Book Araki’s new photobook 2THESKY, my Ender was released by Shinchosha at the end of 2009. The book contains 254 works from a series created in a kind of diaristic mode using photographs of the sky taken from his balconyView More >
12.15 – 1.29 Gallery BMB（Mumbai） The traveling installation launched in 2006 in Mumbai, returns home to mark the twentieth year in the art career of Kerala-born artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari. Positioned as a knowledge laboratory for the people, thisView More >
12.19 – 5.23 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa) http://www.haramuseum.or.jp The General’s Smile 2009 Blue Kylin Part1 2009 Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest Part 3 2005 ART iT Picks: Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile ART iT Partners: Hara MuseumView More >