9.26 – 11.22 Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing) In 2006, Zhuang Hui – who was born in the once booming oil town of Yumen – and Dan’er began their survey of Yumen, and as they explored, their focusView More >
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Talk: Yanagi Miwa on the Venice Biennale
Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe ¥2,940 / Text in Japanese and English / Seigensha Art Publishing Yanagi Miwa’s Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe, created this year for the Japanese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has beenView More >
Olafur Eliasson: Your chance encounter
11.21 – 3.22 21st Century of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Your watercolour horizon (detail) 2009 Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo Photo Studio Olafur Eliasson, © 2009 Olafur Eliasson The second solo show at a Japanese museum ofView More >
International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama (2)
10.31 – 11.29 Shinko Pier, BankArt Studio NYK and others (Yokohama) http://ifamy.jp/ Fujihata Masaki: Simultaneous Echos Michael Snow: The living room Paulien Oltheten “One moment, it’s really beautiful” part 2 Chantal Akerman: From the East,bordering on Fiction, 1995 Wang JianView More >
Nakaya Fujiko + dNA: MU
Nakaya Fujiko + doubleNegatives Architecture MU: Mercurial Unfolding 2009.9.24 – 10.31 L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo http://www.institut.jp/ja/evenements/9141 by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Mercurial Unfolding is a collaboration between the artist known as the ‘fog sculptor’ and an architecture group of self-proclaimedView More >
Kami. Silence-Action – Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper
10.15 – 1.4 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett Hidaka Rieko Looking up the Trees VII 1993 Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo An exhibition co-organized by the Kupferstich-Kabinett, a museum devoted to researching and collectionView More >
Nishi Tatzu: War and peace and in between
10.2 – 2.21 Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) War and peace and in between 2009 The Japanese artist known for recontextualizing monumental sculptures by enclosing them in structures. In Sydney, he makes the two outdoor sculpturesView More >
Tanaka Koki: I ask…
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CREAM director makes public comment
Sumitomo Fumihiko, director of the CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, issued an ‘urgent comment from the director’ on CHANNEL CREAM regarding artist Fujihata Masaki’s withdrawal of his work from the festival. In his 25-minute webcast SumitomoView More >
Ars Electronica / Japan Media Art Festival in Vienna
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 Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)
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 >
Photo book of studio (literally!) shots
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 >