in Japan* Gilles Barbier L’Hospice/The Nursing Home 2002 Mori Art Museum Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love http://www.mori.art.museum/ Hours: 10:00 – 22:00 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Rebecca Horn Rebellion in Silence Dialogue between Raven and WhaleView More >
12.19 – 5.23 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa) Image from The General’s Smile 2009 Multiple-channel video installation Installation view at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Photo Kioku Keizo Chinese film and video artist Yang Fudong’s first solo exhibitionView More >
Originality manifested in what we choose An artist who presents scenes from contemporary living, images emblematic of Japan, and in recent years, her own inner life, via video installations featuring hand-drawn pictures and colors and lines reminiscent of ukiyo-e prints,View More >
The Batsheva Dance Company’s FURO (2006) marked Tabaimo’s first foray into collaboration with dance. The commission came from the company’s artistic director who fell hopelessly in love with the artist’s Japanese Bathhouse. What was it that drew the world-renowned choreographerView More >
dolefullhouse 2007 Still image from a single-channel Blu-ray video projection with sound Dimensions variable © Tabaimo Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi From January – April 2010, Philadelphia will host the inaugural edition of Philagrafika, a print-related art festival involving more thanView More >
Miyake Saori (left) a secret talk, and Bed Gelatin silver prints Photo © Ueno Norihiro The exhibition touted as the steppingstone to success for emerging Japanese artists, Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) has announced its award-winners for the 17th edition.View More >
12.19 – 2010.1.9 Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi) 2THESKY my Ender 2009 An exhibition staged to coincide with the release of a photo-collection published by Shinchosha of the same title. Since 2 January 2009, Araki has been creating a diary-like series ofView More >
Visionaire’s 57th issue and first in digital format, ‘2010’, presents 365 artworks organized into an electronic daily calendar selected by 52 curators, designers, architects, and collectors from around the world. Among those making the selections were Hans Ulrich Obrist, HerzogView More >
The Spectacle of the Everyday 2009.9.16 – 2010.1.3 La Sucrière, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bichat Warehouse, Bullukian Foundation (Lyon, France) http://www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/ by Yu Hsiao-hwei (Paris-based independent art writer) Founded in 1991, the Lyon Biennale is celebrating its 10th anniversary withView More >
12.16 – 2010.1.30 Mizuma Art Gallery (Ichigaya Tamachi) Interwining Thoughts 2009 Acrylic, gold leaf, wood 180×165.5cm Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery A solo show by the Heisei painter and advocate of Neo Nihonga christens the Mizuma Art Gallery’s new space in Ichigaya. TheView More >
12.4 – 26 Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG (Bakurocho) http://roentgenwerke.com HUNCH-1000190.mephisto 2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ135xD13.5cm HUNCH-2001190.mephisto2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ135xD13.5cm HUNCH-1000190.mephisto (detail), 2009 HUNCH-3002190.mephisto 2009 Urethane, acrylic, FRP, φ30xD3cm ART iT ArtBlogs: Kanno Sakan
National art NPO network Arts NPO Link is to host an emergency forum on Japan’s arts and culture policy at Yokohama’s BankART on the 23rd (Wed/public holiday). In the wake of drastic cuts to cultural administration grants in November’s governmentView More >