cassini + zycles 10.16 – 12.16 Gallery Koyanagi (Ginza) http://www.gallerykoyanagi.com ART iT Picks: Thomas Ruff: cassini + zycles ART iT ArtPartner: Gallery Koyanagi
Magazine
Tabaimo: Danmen @ Yokohama Museum of Art
2009.12.11 – 20103.3 Yokohama Museum of Art http://www.yaf.or.jp/yma/ 2010.7.10 – 9.12 The National Museum of Art, Osaka http://www.nmao.go.jp/i Apartment Strata (detail) 2009 Video installation 2′ 53″ loop akunin (detail) 2009 Video loop yudangami (detail) 2009 Video installation 4′ 13″ loopView More >
Opening/Closing this week (12.14-20)
Japan* Opening this week Hosoe Eikoh（Part 1） 12.15 – 26 tokinowasuremono (Aoyama) http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/index.html Iba Yasuko / Katsumoto Mitsuru / Botan Yasuyoshi / Kiki Smith 12.15 – 26 MA2 Gallery (Ebisu） http://www.ma2gallery.com Kimura Taiyo Routine (Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart) 1998 Photo FrankView More >
Mario Garcia Torres @ Taka Ishii Gallery
Unspoken Dailies 11.21 – 12.12 Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi) ART iT Picks: Mario Garcia Torres: Unspoken Dailies ART iT ArtPartner: Taka Ishii Gallery
André Butzer / Shimizu Akira @ hiromiyoshii
André Butzer / Shimizu Akira Sheep and Donkey (at the same time) 11.28 – 12.19 hiromiyoshii (kiyosumi) André Butzer Shimizu Akira Sheep and Donkey ART iT Picks: André Butzer / Shimizu Akira ART iT ArtPartner：hiromiyoshii
‘The six!’ held by art students
An exhibition by students from 13 art universities running through Sunday at the Artcomplex Center of Tokyo in Yotsuya. The six! features the award-winning works from the art festivals held at each university and the shortlisted artworks from a web-basedView More >
Thomas Hoving (1931–2009)
Thomas Hoving, the former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of numerous artworld-related books including Masterpiece and Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on 10 December from cancer at 78. HovingView More >
Bome, the modeler of Murakami’s KO2 showing solo
Onimusume 1 by Utatane Hiroyuki （1994） © Utatane Hiroyuki / Comic House ©KAIYODO Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Bome, the modeler known primarily from his work on Murakami Takashi’s Project KO2 series of figure sculptures, opens his own solo showView More >
Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality
12.9 – 18 Lalit Kala Akademi (New Delhi) Bharti Kher Warrior with Cloak and Shield A group exhibition organized by Gallery Espace to celebrate its 20th anniversary, taking as its theme the term coined in 1925 by the German artView More >
Selected news from other media
Sarah McCrory appointed as curator of Frieze Projects (Art Review） http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1474022%3ABlogPost%3A924605 Steve McQueen directs Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. (Artforum） http://www.artforum.com/news/#news24370 New Prize Created by Victor Pinchuk Honors ArtistsView More >
Pipilotti Rist
I’m merely giving color back to the world, coming close to reality. With her technicolor palette, nimble camerawork, and freewheeling presentation style, the eternally tomboyish Pipilotti Rist reflects the joys and uncertainties of living in today’s world. We spoke toView More >
Gallery show @ ShugoArts
11.28 – 12.19 http://www.shugoarts.com/ Chiba Masaya Chiba Masaya Chiba Masaya Kobayashi Masato Kobayashi Masato ART iT ArtPartner: ShugArts