A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Nawa Kohei (part 2) Text in Japanese.
Magazine
Art & design magazines out this month
September issues Illustration No.179 (out 27 July） Feature: Go to the Museum http://www.genkosha.co.jp/np/detail.do?magazine_id=5 STUDIO VOICE Vol.405 （out 6 August） Feature: Zero Generation http://www.fashionnews.jp/magazine/studiovoice/latest.php CASA BRUTUS Vol.114（out 10 August） Feature: Ando Tadao http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/114/ pen 8/15 No.250（out 15 August） Ai Weiwei View More >">http://pen.hankyu-com.co.jp/con/index.htmlView More >
Martin Creed
2009.5.23 – 7.20 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/index.html by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) Installation view of Martin Creed 2009 Courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo Omote Nobutada To be honest my first impression, having takenView More >
17August, – 23 August (Japan)
Opening this week Matsui Fuyuko Etude for Nyctalopia 2004, Pencil on Paper The cool of the evening 8.17 – 9.5 GALLERY NARUYAMA (Kudan) http://www.gallery-naruyama.com The Light: Matsumoto Yoko / Noguchi Rika 8.19 – 10.19 The National Art Center, Tokyo (Roppongi)View More >
Contemporary art is just easy as pie.
8.29 – 10.12 Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito James Turrell Soft Cell 1992 Photo Anzai Shigeo An attempt to highlight the pleasures of contemporary art by presenting it in a friendlier form. Along with works by James Turrell, SoneView More >
Film shooting x Magic x Art in Yokohama
Jung Yeondoo Korean artist Jung Yeondoo will hold two open filming sessions at the Yokohama Museum of Art for Cinemagician, a work in the making to be screened at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009. Appearing atView More >
Marina Abramović retrospective at MOMA in 2010
Luminosity 1997, Courtesy Marina Abramović Archive and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York A retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance art master Marina Abramović (b. 1946 in Yugoslavia) is slated for 2010 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Featuring someView More >
Kiki Smith celebrated at MacDowell
Artist Kiki Smith received the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal. The Medal is awarded each year by America’s leading artists colony, The MacDowell Colony, to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her field. Visual artists whoView More >
Big in Japan @ Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
6.19 – 8.16 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius http://www.cac.lt/en.php/exhibitions/current/21 Opening day Photo Urano Mutsumi Installation view of Kusama Yayoi’s Dots Obsession-Infinity Mirrored Room 2008 Courtesy the artist and Ota Fine Arts Installation view of Paramodel’s Paramodelic – Graffiti 2009 Courtesy theView More >
This week @ ART iT
Notices – Member giveaways through 26 August https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_give_e/rIYP2Nx5icpTbDoFMgJA/ – ART iT seeking interns https://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_artit/4yMjqaVE5osuheLntlSk/ This weeks picks Feature: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 Interview with the general director Kitagawa Fram; beginner’s guide; video and photo rep orts https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_feature_e/YoazcUFpqvKVPjsdLRbm/ Snapshots: Echigo-Tsumari ArtView More >
Ai Weiwei detained in China
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by police on 12 August in the Sichuan city of Chengdu. He was in Chengdu to give evidence in defense of writer and environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who was on trial there for subversion. AiView More >
New Anish Kapoor installation at Guggenheim NY
Memory, a major new site-specific sculpture installation by Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 21 October to 28 March 2010. The show marks the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s first collaborationView More >