■Event The third annual staging of the generation- and genre-crossing art project launched by Nakamura Masato and fellow artists born in the Akita prefecture city of Odate to increase awareness of the charms of the local area opens today. TakingView More >
Koyama Tomio Gallerist Koyama Tomio (Tomio Koyama Gallery) joins ART iT’s own editor-in-chief, Ozaki Tetsuya for his series of discussions about ‘What is Japanese art?.’ Koyama has been a driving force in the Japanese art scene, and a key figureView More >
Suzushiro Nikki Hatori Press ¥2,625 To celebrate the publication of his Suzushiro Nikki (The radish diary) in book form, artist Yamaguchi Akira will appear today at the Maruzen bookstore in Tokyo for a talk and booksigning. The book contains 50View More >
A charity exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of Japan’s Central and Pacific baseball leagues. The curated segment, Future 60, will feature works taking baseball as their theme by 60 artists/units active across a variety of creative fields.View More >
NHK Educational TV’s Sunday Museum will feature the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, currently underway in Niigata, on its August 30th broadcast. Titled ‘Ten years in Echigo-Tsumari: land of greenery, rice balls and art’, the festival’s general director Kitagawa Fram willView More >
Busan’s first hotel-based art fair, ARTO BUSAN 2009, launches this weekend in the Korean port city. Some 70 galleries from countries across Asia including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore are slated to exhibit. Japanese galleries include Mizuma Art Gallery,View More >
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Nawa Kohei (part 1) Text in Japanese PixCell-Elk#2 2009, Mixed media ©Omote Nobutada Courtesy of the Hermès Foundation https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrec_e/OyteLSv0RKz8lJbBhUdA PixCell[Toy-Stealth(flying mode)#1] 2003 30.3x21x4.8cm, Mixed media, Photo Kioku Keizo, Courtesy SCAI THE BATHHOUSE Installation viewView More >
For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is held over a vast area of 760View More >
Claude Lévêque In silence or in noises 2009 A chance to experience art from around the world amid natural surroundings, in quiet rural settings far from metropolitan galleries and museums. The producer of the event asserts that ‘contemporary art shinesView More >
Kaikai Kiki artist Mr. has just published his first dojinshi(fanzine) and will be presenting this new offering at this summer’s Comic Market 76. Mr. will be exhibiting on day 3 of the three-day annual exhibition and spot sales event. TheView More >
8.1 – 11.8 Heide Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) The Duck-Rabbit Problem 1991 Synthetic fur, synthetic stuffing, wood, polystyrene, enamel paint © Kathy Temin This survey spans 20 years of Kathy Temin’s inventive sculptural practice by combining her early foraysView More >
Siding Railroad 8.28 – 9.23 Former Seibu Railway Tokorozawa railroad car factory (Saitama) Photo YamamotoTadasu An artist-initiated biennial exhibition planned and operated in close alliance with its locale, for which, barring grants, the participating artists also raised the funding. LeadView More >