Book Araki’s new photobook 2THESKY, my Ender was released by Shinchosha at the end of 2009. The book contains 254 works from a series created in a kind of diaristic mode using photographs of the sky taken fromView More >
Magazine
Bose Krishnamachari: Laboratory of Visual Arts
12.15 – 1.29 Gallery BMB（Mumbai） The traveling installation launched in 2006 in Mumbai, returns home to mark the twentieth year in the art career of Kerala-born artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari. Positioned as a knowledge laboratory for theView More >
Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile
12.19 – 5.23 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Shinagawa) http://www.haramuseum.or.jp The General’s Smile 2009 Blue Kylin Part1 2009 Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest Part 3 2005 ART iT Picks: Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile ART iT Partners: HaraView More >
Japanese artists talk about Beuys
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 beenView More >
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 theView 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 theView 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 2007View 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 forView More >