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 >
From Collage/To Collage Varda Caivano – Untitled (2007), oil on canvas, 51 x 70 cm. Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery. Varda Caivano at the Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto; William Kentridge at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; the photographs ofView More >
10.14 – 18 Frieze Art Fair http://www.friezeartfair.com/ Victoria Miro (London) http://www.victoria-miro.com/ Grayson Perry Alex Hartley Alex Hartley Kusama Yayoi Stephen Willats Back to Index: London Photo report
Miyajima typically uses LED digital counters, numbers flashing in darkness, to express life, death, and reincarnation. That visionary world will set the stage for a new work by the London Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer Wayne McGregor. The ballet will beView More >
Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l’eau à l’intérieur de l’eau. 11.14 – 1.24 The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Oncho (grace) 2009 (1999 – ) Photo Hatakeyama Naoya Solo show by the artist known for her installationsView More >
Yoshida Shinnosuke In a Sea of Trees 2009 Oil on canvas 145.5×145.5cm The winners of this year’s Shell Art Award, established in 1956 by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. with the aim of discovering promising young contemporary artists, are official. TheView More >
Skyline 10.2 – 31 Gallery Tosei http://www.tosei-sha.jp/
Japan* Opening this week 11.6 open Suzuki Masako :ZOO−M 11.6 – 28 FOIL Gallery (Kanda) [MAP] http://www.foiltokyo.com/gallery/galleryindex.html Fujii Tamotsu :Bird Song 11.6 – 12.5 MA2 Gallery (Yebisu) [MAP] http://www.ma2gallery.com DREAM CONSCIOUS curated by Tsumura Kosuke 11.6 – 12.12 YUKA CONTEMPORARYView More >