10.27 – 12.20 Shiseido Gallery (Ginza) Cao Fei / China Tracy Live in RMB City 2009 Video RMB City © 2009 The internationally active young Chinese female artist who looks at changing Chinese society and everyday life from a perspectiveView More >
Magazine
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection (Tokyo) (2)
8.1 – 10.12 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Francesca Woodman Untitled, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire 1976, gelatin silver print Boris Mikhailov Yesterday’s Sandwich #11 1965 – 81, color photograph Mori Hiroharu About things you know 2006, single channel video (loop) Cao Fei RMB City: AView More >
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection (Tokyo) (1)
8.1 – 10.12 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Yanagi Miwa Elevator Girl House 1F, color photograph Liu Jianhua Colour Ceramic Series – Play 2001, ceramic Pipilotti Rist Laplamp 2006 Standing lamp, chair, DLP LED projectror, frashcard SD player Christian Boltanski Fête de Pourim 1990 B/W photographs,View More >
Talks by art-Link art fraternity
A series of talks featuring a new guest each session, Yanaka Talk vol. 1: the business of art kicked off last weekend. The event is being staged in conjunction with art-Link Ueno-Yanaka 2009, currently underway in Tokyo’s Ueno-Yanaka-Nezu-Sendagi area. SessionView More >
Public art production by nominees for Tokyo Midtown Award
Tokyo Midtown Award 2009 art competition jury members Igarashi Takenobu, Kojima Yayoi, Shimizu Toshio, Nakayama Daisuke, and Hachiya Kazuhiko have made their second-screening selections. Now the four nominees – Hirata Sou, Fukumoto Ayumi, Fujii Hidemasa, and Yamamoto Marie – willView More >
Art & design magazines out this month
CASA BRUTUS Vol.114 (out 10 September） Feature: Art, Architecture and Design in Kyoto http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/115/ Bijutsu-techo Vol.61 (out 17 September) Feature: Basic Knowledge for Artists http://www.bijutsu.co.jp/bt/ Illustration No.179 (out 26 September） Feature: Designers’ works Ikeda Shingo / Watanabe Yoshie http://www.genkosha.co.jp/np/detail.do?magazine_id=5 Bijutu-no-madoView More >
Suda Yoshihiro: In focus
10.6 – 2.7 Asia Society Museum (New York) Azalea 2007 Paint on wood Installation view at PKM Gallery, Seoul © Suda Yoshihiro Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Solo show by a Japanese artist whose hyper-real sculptures of flowers and plants, delicately carved fromView More >
Video Swell Sydney
10.3 – 11.29 The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) Shaun Gladwell Storm Sequence 2000 Video still Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia Two screenings a week of four videos by four artists (units) revealing the diversityView More >
30th NIPAF kicks off tour in Tokyo
Presenting trajectories in Japanese and international performing arts since its launch in 1993, NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival) celebrates its 30th staging – international and Asian series combined. The milestone edition – taking place over three Japanese cities –View More >
Melbourne International Arts Festival
■Event Callum Morton Valhalla 2007 Photo Callum Morton ©Anna Schwartz Gallery and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Melbourne’s annual festival of performing and visual arts brings together a mind-bogglingly broad range of contemporary art, dance, film, music, theatre, and more fromView More >
Kusama Yayoi: Mirrored Years
9.27 – 2.7 City Gallery Wellington Dots Obsession-Day 2009 Mixed media Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Copyright Kusama Yayoi and Yayoi Kusama Studio A New Zealand gallery celebrates the completion of its major expansion project with a solo exhibition byView More >
New art fair: G-tokyo 2010
It’s official! January 2010 will see the premiere of a new Tokyo contemporary art fair: G-tokyo 2010. What sets this fair apart from other Japanese fairs is the international scale of the 15 participating galleries, namely: ARATANIURANO, Gallery Koyanagi, GalleryView More >