■Book A book that proposes travelling in and around the art cities near Tokyo, from the galleries of the Tokyo suburbs to places farther afield such as Hayama, Kobuchizawa and Mito, either as day trips, short trips or as partView More >
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Verge Art Fair Miami 2009
The Verge Art Fair will be held in Miami, during the same period as the annual Art Basel Miami Beach, to introduce emerging artists and their work. The Verge Art Fair is a reinvention of the Bridge Art Fair thatView More >
Elmgreen & Dragset @ Taka Ishii Gallery
Supermodels 9.5-10.3 Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo) http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ ART iT ArtPartner: Taka Ishii Gallery ART iT Picks: Elmgreen & Dragset: SUPERMODELS ART iT Snapshots: Hirata Akihisa ‘Flame frame’ @ Taka Ishii Gallery
Mori Mariko: Flat Stone
9.8 – 10.3 SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Tokyo) Flat Stone 2007 Ceramic, acrylic, installation 487.5 x 314.6 x 8.8 cm Photo Richard Learoyd An artist who has been active on the international art scene since the mid-90s presents three-dimensional works, paintingsView More >
Josh Smith @ hiromiyoshii
Josh Smith: Paintings 9.5 – 10.3 hiromiyoshii (Tokyo) http://www.hiromiyoshii.com/ ART iT ArtPartner: hiromiyoshii Back to Index: Galleries in Kiyosumi area
Sugimoto Hiroshi: Lightning Fields
9.8 – 10.10 Gallery Koyanagi (Tokyo) Lightning Fields 119 2009 Gelatin silver print ©Hiroshi Sugimoto Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi The most recent work (2009) from the Lightning Fields series first shown in 2006. Sugimoto’s work involves experimenting with electricity discharges thatView More >
Tezuka Aiko: Fragile Surface – Cat’s Cradle
2009.7.16 – 9.9 Kenji Taki Gallery (Tokyo) http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kenjitaki/ by Matsuura Naomi Fragile Surface (body 2) 2009 Stitching with thread pulled out from fabric, embroidery frame, cloth 80.5 x 181 cm At the Stitch by Stitch group exhibition currently on atView More >
7 September – 13 September (Japan)
Japan* Opening this week Mori Mariko Flat Stone 2007 Ceramic, acrylic, installation 487.5 x 314.6 x 8.8 cm Photo Richard Learoyd Mori Mariko: Flat Stone 9.8 – 10.3 SCAI THE BATHHOUSE (Yanaka) http://www.scaithebathhouse.com Morimoto Taro: -in between- 9.5 – 10.4View More >
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW China, Japan, Korea
■Exhibition Zhang Huan Foam (1) 1998 chromogenic print Collection SFMOMA, gift of Vicki and Kent Logan; © Zhang Huan An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the theme of contemporary photographic expression in China, Japan andView More >
William Kentridge @ MoMAK
What We See & What We Know Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus the Drawings Began to Move… 9.4-10.18 The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto http://www.momak.go.jp/ ART iT Picks https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrec_e/HgGxuv13aNCf8ch2sOBr
Kanazawa Film Festival 2009
Metropolis With this year’s theme being the New World Order Survival Guide, the films from a diverse range of genres including science fiction, biographical, religious, documentary and animation, suggest ideas for surviving confusing times and burst with good intentions atView More >
200 ART WORKS – 25 YEARS
Artists editions for Parkett 9.4-26 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa – People’s Gallery A Catalogue raisonné ¥4,500 The Swiss art publisher, this year celebrating its quarter century, introduces a collection of the 200 artist editions it has producedView More >