Event For one night only, three of the Japanese contemporary art scene’s hot male artists will moonlight as hosts at the ‘Host Club MAGICROOM???’ Don’t miss Biennale YAZAWA (Matsukage Hiroyuki), Hachi♂ (Hachiya Kazuhiko) and Bambi (Odani Motohiko) make their barView More >
83jG4Nhuw2k Dancer Yasumoto Masako, who closed 2009 with a performance in collaboration with Tabaimo to coincide with the artist’s solo show Tabaimo: Danmen currently underway at the Yokohama Museum of Art, kicks off 2010 with performances in the 13th AnnualView More >
What We See & What We Know Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus the Drawings Began to Move… 1.2 – 2.14 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo http://www.momat.go.jp/Honkan/william_kentridge/ ART iT Picks: William Kentridge: What We See &View More >
Matsu Fuyuko Etude for Keeping up the Pureness 2004 The newly established Japanese Society of Artistic Anatomy celebrates its launch with a day of events. JSAA chairman Yoro Takeshi (Anatomist; Professor emeritus, University of Tokyo) intends to make this ‘Japan’s topView More >
1.7 – 1.31 Sakshi Gallery (Mumbai) Yamaguchi Noriko peppermint girl no.3 2007 Digital c-print (ed:7) In a truly outstanding work of art, new and traditional not only exist harmoniously side by side, but also highlight the intrinsic valueView More >
Exhibition / Events Hashimoto Satoshi fruit 2008 The National Art Studio in Changdong (run by National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea), Seoul’s Alternative Space LOOP and the director of last autumn’s International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Sumitomo Fumihiko,View More >
1.8 – 3.28 Shiseido Gallery (Ginza) Soya Asae Ringing 2010 Photo Suzaki Kazushi Launched in 2007 to support the activities of up-and-coming artists, the ‘shiseido art egg’ program selects three artists each year, through portfolio reviews of open submissions, toView More >
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 andView 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 timeView 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,View 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,View More >