11.21 – 3.22 21st Century of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Your watercolour horizon (detail) 2009 Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo Photo Studio Olafur Eliasson, © 2009 Olafur Eliasson The second solo show at a Japanese museum of the artistView More >
10.31 – 11.29 Shinko Pier, BankArt Studio NYK and others (Yokohama) http://ifamy.jp/ Fujihata Masaki: Simultaneous Echos Michael Snow: The living room Paulien Oltheten “One moment, it’s really beautiful” part 2 Chantal Akerman: From the East,bordering on Fiction, 1995 Wang JianView More >
Nakaya Fujiko + doubleNegatives Architecture MU: Mercurial Unfolding 2009.9.24 – 10.31 L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo http://www.institut.jp/ja/evenements/9141 by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Mercurial Unfolding is a collaboration between the artist known as the ‘fog sculptor’ and an architecture group of self-proclaimedView More >
10.15 – 1.4 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett Hidaka Rieko Looking up the Trees VII 1993 Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo An exhibition co-organized by the Kupferstich-Kabinett, a museum devoted to researching and collection Japanese art,View More >
10.2 – 2.21 Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) War and peace and in between 2009 The Japanese artist known for recontextualizing monumental sculptures by enclosing them in structures. In Sydney, he makes the two outdoor sculptures that generallyView More >
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Sumitomo Fumihiko, director of the CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, issued an ‘urgent comment from the director’ on CHANNEL CREAM regarding artist Fujihata Masaki’s withdrawal of his work from the festival. In his 25-minute webcast SumitomoView More >
Ars Electronica Festival 2009.9.3 – 8 Linz, Austria (various locations) http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php Japan Media Art Festival in Vienna 2009.9.12 – 20 Vienna, Austria (MuseumsQuartier) http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/vienna/ by Philippe Codognet & Fukunaga Hiroko The small industrial city of Linz is the unexpected venueView More >
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist and thinker considered the father of structural anthropology, died on 30 October at the age of 100. His great many books including The Elementary Structures of Kinship, A World on the Wane and TheView More >
Photographer Kuge Yasuhide’s collection of photographs shot during his visits to artists’ studios, Atelier, has been published. The photo book documents the workplaces of 16 of Japan’s top contemporary artists including Aida Makoto, Kusama Yayoi, Arakawa Shusaku, Kawamata Tadashi, MurakamiView More >
10.31 – 11.29 Shinko Pier, BankArt Studio NYK and others (Yokohama) http://ifamy.jp/ Eko Nugroho The Mumet（The Headache/Problem） Matsushima Shunsuke VOICE-PORTRAIT self-introduction (CREAM Competition CREAM Prize) Opening event Teiden EXPO Lab Space Hachiya Kazuhiko Seeing is believing ART iT Feature: CREAMView More >
Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan From Collage/To Collage Varda Caivano Untitled 2007 Oil on canvas, 51x70cm, Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery Varda Caivano at the Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto; William Kentridge at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; theView More >