Photo Honma Takashi The Mitsubishi Ichigokan is slated to reopen in April 2010 as the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo following restoration to its original Meiji-period design. To celebrate the completion of the project, the building will open to public inView More >
9.9 – 10.10 NAGAMINE (Shanghai) Two of Us 2009 Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm Gracing the brand-new walls of a gallery scheduled to make its debut on opening day of ShContemporary 2009 will be new works by KomuraView More >
9.5 – 10.11 Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM (Fukuoka) Green House 2008 Emulsion, 794 x 437 cm / 794 x 62.5cm / 794 x 50 cm Kyushu University Ito Campus The first solo exhibition in Japan of the artist whose painting installations beganView More >
Dazaifu Tenmangu, Ema Hall Artist Michael Lin will present an original ema votive painting to the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Fukuoka. Lin embarked on the project after visiting the shrine last year. Lin’s painting will be dedicated to the shrineView More >
Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus the Drawings Began to Move 9.4 – 10.18 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Felix’s room/Nandi with telescope 1994 Drawing for the film Felix in Exile; charcoal and pastel on paper 93×120 cmView More >
I am not me, the horse is not mine 2008 © William Kentridge To coincide with the opening of his solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, William Kentridge will present his lecture/multimedia performance I am not me, theView More >
■Award The 1st Nakamura Keith Haring Collection International Painting Contest for children is calling for submissions. Taking ‘Peace’ as its theme, the contest offers prizes in each of four divisions: pre-school, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, and middle school. The contestView More >
The Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka has announced it will be closing its doors at the end December 2010. Suntory Holdings Limited, which operates the Museum, will merge with the Suntory Music Foundation on 1 September 2009, to become theView More >
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Event Yanobe Kenji Lucky Dragon (study drawing) 2009 (c) Yanobe Kenji Art boat designed to cruise area waterways An event staged to symbolize Osaka’s revitalization as a city of water, Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 kicked off today. Among an extensive program ofView More >
A mother alive even after death Currently on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Song Dong’s Waste Not installation was a joint effort with the artist’s mother, employing an immense collection of household goods she could notView More >
Art House Project Ishibashi, Photo Watanabe Osamu Nihonga artist Senju Hiroshi has complete his new work for the Benesse Art Site Naoshima Art House Project, a series of permanent installations in which artists transform vacant houses on the island intoView More >