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Shinsan Nameko vs neoneo boys
neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are ‘soshokukei – herbivorous artists’? The second talk event staged in conjunction with neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are ‘soshokukei – herbivorous artists’? currently underway at Takahashi Collection Hibiya. For this round the girls, popularView More >
New Sugimoto Hiroshi-designed photo museum
Vintage Fox Talbot negative, c.1840-1841 © Hiroshi Sugimoto Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi The Clematis-no-oka cultural complex in the Shizuoka prefecture city of Mishima will soon celebrate the opening of a new museum devoted to photography: the Izu Photo Museum. Located nearView More >
Xu Zhen: Lonely Miracle: Middle East Contemporary Art
9.10 – 10.10 James Cohan Gallery (New York) Dual Game 2009 Mixed media The Chinese conceptual artist best known for his 8848 minus 1.86 chronicle of lopping off the top of Mt. Everest that makes a riot of truth and fiction. ForView More >
Talk: Tsumura Kosuke x ART iT Ozaki Tetsuya
For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke. For this session ART iT’s editor-in-chief has asked his guest – who in addition to maintaining a design practice that includes his own label, FinalView More >
Frankie Callaghan: Dwelling
9.9 – 10.3 Silverlens Gallery (Manila) 308 2009 Archival inkjet print 68.5 x 101.6 cm Drawn to the forms of quiet dwellings bathed in ambient city light at night, the Filipino artist turns his camera to the simple beauty born from theView More >
Masada Takeshi @ Wako Works of Art
New Works 9.11 – 10.10 http://www.wako-art.jp ART iT ArtPartner: Wako Works of Art
Art project for ‘iida’ mobile phones
Thursday 9 September marked the launch of the iida Digital Contents Gallery, a collection of downloadable artworks created by Japanese and international artists and designers for au’s iida-brand mobile phone. Round one features works by the six artists/units Enlightenment, TakimotoView More >
Wit Pimkanchanapong: Not Quite a Total Eclipse
9.3 – 10.25 100 Tonson Gallery (Bangkok) Not Quite a Total Eclipse 2009 Solo show by Thai mixed-media artist Wit Pimkanchanapong. Extending the interest in light and shadow shown in his previous work Mai-Ya-Rab (2009), here Pimkanchanapong presents a large-scale installationView More >
Be part of a Damien Hirst artwork
Damien Hirst Ingo, Torsten 1992 (Installation at Unfair, Cologne) Gloss household paint on wall, chairs and twins, Dimensions variable © Damien Hirst, Courtesy White Cube Artist Damien Hirst is calling for identical twins to take part in his artwork forView More >
‘papyrus’ features Ohtake Shinro
Front and back covers of the October 2009 issue of papyrus（¥730; Gentosha） Artist Ohtake Shinro is the subject of a special feature in the October issue (now on sale) of the culture magazine papyrus. Among the special feature’s series ofView More >
CREAM competition results announced
Matsushima Shunsuke VOICE-PORTRAIT ~self-introduction~ http://voice-portrait.tumblr.com/ Winners of the CREAM competition staged in conjunction with the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama to open at the end of October were announced today: the CREAM Prize went to Matsushima Shunsuke’s VOICE-PORTRAITView More >