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 worksView More >
Magazine
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 spiritualView 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: discollageView 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 freelyView More >
Miyake Saori @ Yuka Sasahara Gallery
CONSTELLATION 2 11.21 – 12.26 http://www.yukasasaharagallery.com/ ART iT ArtPartners：Yuka Sasahara Gallery
Mori Yuko @ Ohshima Fine Art
Chiral. Achiral. 11.21-12.18 http://www.ohshimafineart.com/
Book: Artist in residencies around the world
A detailed guide to some 90 artist-residency programs throughout the world together with artworks and comments – including why they applied and the significance of the experience – by more than 100 artists who have attended them. The bookView More >
Paramodel @ MORI YU GALLERY TOKYO
Paramodelic motor-pool 11.21 – 12.26 http://moriyu-gallery.com/
SHINCHIKA
11.28 – 1.16 (gallery closed 12.26-1.5) Ota Fine Arts (Kachidoki) Shinchika is a five-artist unit: one female, four male. Having each based themselves since graduating art school in different locations around Japan, they now collaborate by exchanging filesView More >