Photo: Liad Baniel The Miami Beach art fairs – Art Basel Miami Beach, Scope, Pulse, and Art Asia – closed their 2009 editions on 6 December well attended. Art Basel, with more than 250 participating galleries, saw 42,000 visitors. Scope,View More >
Magazine
Explosion work by Cai Guo-Qiang in Philadelphia
■Exhibition Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project 2009 Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 2009, 4:30pm; 60 seconds Explosion area approximately 18.3 x 26.1 meters Gunpowder fuse, metal net for gunpowder fuse, scaffolding Photo Ihara Hiro Courtesy Cai Studio At sunsetView More >
Kaneuji Teppei @ GalleryαM
METAMORPHOSIS – Objects today Vol.6: Kaneuji Teppei 11.28 – 12.26 http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/exhibition.php
Tabaimo
An artist whose ‘sketches’ of contemporary Japan that have taken as their stages the bathhouse, the kitchen, the commuter train, and public toilet, making them a mirror to reflect her own inner life, now takes up ‘the generations’ as herView More >
MAM Art Course at Mori Art Museum
■Event Left: Kim Sunjung Right: Azuma Hiroki Photo: Lee Seungmoo The Mori Art Museum is taking bookings for the last two lectures in its ten-part series exploring relations between art and society around the three themes of art, businessView More >
Cai Guo-Qiang: Hanging Out in the Museum
11.21 – 2.21 Taipei Fine Arts Museum The largest retrospective of the artist’s work to be organized since his solo show at the Guggenheim in 2008. Hanging Out in the Museum features 35 works, including three new works created speciallyView More >
Mind Topology: The Phases of 2009 Korea
10.17 – 1.10 The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (Tai Chung) Ha Bong-Ho Red Signal of NY A group exhibition co-organized with the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea. The selected works explore aspects of the spiritual world ofView More >
Critical Fieldwork 4
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 2: 11:02 Nagasaki If “Japan as it really exists” is absent, where is the reality, the “decisive moment,” of post-war “Japan”? In 1961, 16 years after the moment the atomic bombView More >
Opening/Closing this week (12.21-27)
Japan* Opening this week Ishikawa Naoki: ARCHIPELAGO 12.24 – 2010.2.13 Cannon Gallery S (Shinagawa) http://cweb.canon.jp/s-tower/floor/1f/gallery/archipelago/index.html Kobayashi Fumiko Traveling・No return 2009 80cm × 80cm Lamda print Abe Daiske / Itozaki Kimio / Kobayashi Fumiko / Hicosaka Toshiaki / Yagi Takafumi: discollage 12.26 –View More >
Overseas media pickup
Pompidou Center reopens on 17 December for the first time since 23 November (New York Times) http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/pompidou-center-reopens/ Sotheby’s, Christie’s contemporary-art sales totals drop 75%. (Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aAMthW5Uj.h4 British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East. (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/British-Museum-and-Tate-expand-focus-on-Middle-East/19848
AICA/USA Awards 2009
■Award The International Association of Art Critics, United States section has announced its annual selection of award-winning US shows and performances for 2009. Among this year’s contemporary offerings the AICA/USA Award for Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally went to WilliamView More >
Odani Motohiko: Hollow
12.9 – 3.28 Maison Hermès 8F Forum（Ginza） Hollow: Duplex 2009 Installation view A solo exhibition by the artist who at a young 31 represented the Japanese pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale and whose practice continues to move freely across aView More >