Xijing Men (l to r: Chen Shaoxiong, Ozawa Tsuyoshi and Gimhongsok) There was a northern capital (Beijing), a southern capital (Nanjing) and an eastern capital (Tokyo), but no western capital (Xijing)…until the Xijing Men (Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Chen Shaoxiong and Gimhongsok)View More >
Lim Jihye the black buffalo #2 Mezzotint Korean artist Lim Jihye is the grand prizewinner of the international printmaking competition staged to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of mezzotint artist Hamaguchi Yozo. Japanese artist Kobayashi Misako took secondView More >
LOAPS Art Room, offering classes to a wide range of people from children to budding artists, is now operating in Tokyo. Assuming the roles of directors and special instructors are art critic Ichihara Kentaro, artist Hiro Sugiyama, and gallerist YoshiiView More >
9.17 – 10.10 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) Comerchina – Hopscotch Installation A solo show of new paintings and installations exploring new China’s over-commercialization and obsession with money. The artist coined the word ‘Comerchina’ to mean ‘Commercial China’ orView More >
A driving force in the Yogyakarta art scene, Cemeti Art House will close from August through November, while it revises the direction of its activities. Future not-for-profit activities will focus on their new Art Practice and Society projects from variousView More >
7.4 – 8.31 Hara Museum ARC http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Max Streicher Sleeping Giants (Silenus) 2002, mixed media Kato Izumi Untitled 2008 Tabaimo Midnight sea 2006/2008, video installation Kusama Yayoi Mirror room (pumpkin) 1991 Mirrors, iron, wood, plaster, styrofoam , acrylic – AnimalsView More >
■Exhibition The Agency of Cultural Affairs-sponsored media arts festival will join Europe’s largest media arts festival, Ars Electronica, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, by holding the Japan Media Arts Festival in Linz. The two festivals will take place concurrently,View More >
Editors’ picks (13-19 August) Review: Martin Creed @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrev_e Video: Mark Borthwick https://www.art-it.asia/fpage/?OP=mov Snapshots: Big in Japan @ Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_expht_e/FfpQMb6Z5qzmTjdAkyP3/ News: Ai Weiwei detained inView More >
■Event Shimura Nobuhiro translate 2007 Photo Taniguchi Urara Held for the first time last year in Yokohama’s former red-light district as an attempt at ‘revitalizing the area through art’, the Koganecho Bazaar will take place again this autumn. Taking ‘walkingView More >
Koza / Tokyo / New York / Eastern Europe / USSR 8.29 – 10.18 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Left: Neryungri, Russia 1991 Right: Tokyo Imageshop Camp 1979 A selection of some 190 photographers capturing cities around the world duringView More >
For the second time this month, galleries and other venues in the city of Kawaguchi, where one in every 25 residents is from overseas and many from other Asian countries, join forces in staging the Kawaguchi Asian Art Project. TheView More >
September 2009 will mark the first staging of a new annual international arts festival, flux-s, in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Visual arts, performance art, music, architecture, literature, and more will take to the buildings and streets of the formerView More >