Event Beuys in Japan Filmart, A5/224 pages/¥2,600 out January 2010 Beuys in Japan, the catalogue published to coincide with the 8 Days – Beuys in Japan exhibition showing through 24 January at Art Tower Mito, has just been released. ToView More >
Magazine
William Kentridge: 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 Ubu Tells the Truth: Act I Scene 2 1996-97 Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving Collection and copyright the artistView More >
Living Room
1.21 – 2.28 100 Tonson Gallery (Bangkok) As a site-specific collaborative installation by Jiradej and Prinda Setabundhu (composer, visual artist), Anothai Nitibhon (composer) and Kata Sangkae (visual artist) that aims to make intangible space perceivable. Inspired by the American composerView More >
ART iT contributor best five exhibitions of 2009 II
Mitamura Midori (Tokyo-based artist) ArtBlog 1. Zilvinas Kempinas Kunsthalle Wien (2008.10.31 – 2009.1.25) 2. Verner Panton Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2009.10.17 – 12.27) 3. Rebecca Horn: Rebellion in Silence – Dialogue between Raven and Whale Museum of Contemporary Art TokyoView More >
Tenmyouya Hisashi @ MIZUMA ART GALLERY
Furyu 12.16 – 2010.1.30 http://mizuma-art.co.jp/top.php
Seven young artists at Montblanc Ginza
Left: Watanabe Yutaka untitled Right: Sudo Yukiko Montblanc flowers and weeds Montblanc, of fountain-pen fame, is exhibiting works by seven emerging Japanese artists in its Ginza store. The retailers launched their Montblanc Young Artists Patronage in Japan program in 2007 asView More >
Art & design magazines out this month
CASA BRUTUS vol.118（out 10 December） Feature: Best 100 in architecture and design http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/118/ Bijutsu-techo vol. 62 No.932（out 17 December） Feature: History of Japanese illustration http://www.bijutsu.co.jp/bt/ Art Review: December 2009 60th Anniversary Issue http://www.artreviewdigital.com/ Flash Art November/December 2009 Features: JungYeondoo /View More >
Goodbye ‘magical’; hello ‘island’
magical, ARTROOM president/director Okada Satoshi says he will retire from the gallery world, and instead focus his efforts on running the alternative space and bar MAGIC ROOM??? on the fourth floor of the same building (NADiff a/p/a/r/t), in preparation toView More >
CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama
2009. 10.31 – 11.29 Shinko Pier, BankART Studio NYK, Tokyo Geidai Graduate School of Film and New Media (Bashamichi Campus), Nogeyama Zoo http://ifamy.jp/ by Uchida Shinichi (ART iT) Graffiti Research Laboratory (GRL) Photo: Kioku Keizo Courtesy: International Festival for ArtsView More >
Voyages: Views of the world by Japanese photographers
Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.8 Voyage: Views of the world by Japanese photographers 12.19 – 2010.2.7 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu) Momose Toshiya Calcutta 2008 Ishikawa Naoki From Mt. Fuji series 2008 Delivery, pilgrimage, pioneering, exploration, sightseeing…. Voyages have long been an inseparableView More >
Metta Sudsawad: Passage
12.17 – 1.30 Ardel’s Third Place Gallery（Bangkok） Treasure Box 2008 Egg tempera on teak wood 41 x 51 cm The first solo exhibition of the co-founder of the product design brand Propaganda. Metta Sudsawad’s tempera paintings speakView More >
Paul Chan on his New Orleans project
■Event Tickets are now on sale for the Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist-activist Paul Chan’s extraordinary live multimedia presentation about his November 2007 productions in New Orleans of Waiting for Godot. Chan staged five performances of the production to localView More >