9.5 – 10.3 hiromiyoshii (Tokyo) The New York-based artist’s second solo show with hiromiyoshii. This group of two-dimensional works featuring the artist’s own name writ large seems to pass comment on the history of self-portraiture (even graffiti-style expression?), or perhapsView More >
■Event In conjunction with his solo show underway at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Kitajima Keizo welcomes a host of guests in a series of three talks. For the first he chats with the director of the documentary filmView More >
9.5 – 10.3 Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo) SUPERMODELS Work in progress, 2009 June Photo Kenji Takahashi Solo show by the London-based artist team. Masterminds behind one of the most talked about pavilions (the Nordic) at this year’s Venice Biennale andView More >
A collection of some 400 photographs culled from 40 photobooks by key Japanese photographers of the 1960s and 70s including Moriyama Daido, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Nakahira Takuma, Shinoyama Kishin and Tomatsu Shomei. Published by Aperture, New York, out thisView More >
Drawing for Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (LRTT), 2007 Following his participation in the Museum’s Artist-In-Residence program, Japanese artist Shinoda Taro has a solo show scheduled to open the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in November. The artist will present his LunarView More >
■Exhibtion Shiman – Akari More than 100 artists have descended on the Gunma prefecture town of Nakanojo, an area otherwise known for its Shima and Sawatari hot springs, to stage the second Nakaonojo Biennale. Evenings during the festival bring Shiman-Akari,View More >
■Event Christian Philipp Müller Photo Thomas Eugster © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2009 Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt art center marks its 20th anniversary with a month of celebratory events. The festivities kick off with a lecture byView More >
Intertraveller: People Playing with the Dead Intertraveller: People Playing with the Dead, the catalogue produced in conjunction with Konoike Tomoko’s critically acclaimed solo show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, will be released on 9 September, the Gallery’s tenthView More >
The managers for musicians and actors; producers for film, stage, and television; masterminds behind bringing foreign stage productions to Japan; and operators of the ArtJam Contemporary gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo … Amuse are calling for entries to their annual artView More >
Shiriagari Kotobuki returns to his hometown of Shizuoka as guest curator and artist where he is joined by fellow manga artists Tanaka Katsuki, Amahisa Masakazu, Kawai Katsuo and Nagao Kenichiro. In an experiment expanding the possibilities of manga to theView More >
9.3–25 KIMUSA, Artsonje Center (Seoul) Runa Islam Assault 2008 16mm film Photo Jon Lowe, courtesy White Cube The Platform in KIMUSA segment of fourth staging of the annual contemporary art festival takes as its theme ‘void of memory’, exploring theView More >
9.10 – 10.16 Bose Pacia (Kolkata) More Plains-Ladakh 2007 Oil on linen, 198.7 x 178.0 cm One of India’s leading galleries limelights an unique young Indian artist. The self-taught painter who holds a degree in chemical engineering renders landscapes theView More >