I’m fighting for freedom of speech. I never settle for less. I don’t engage in negotiation. >Part 2 Artist/architect/activist Ai Weiwei Presenting one topical work after another at international shows, designing the ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium for the Beijing Olympics, whileView More >
Yamane Yasuhiro Hare The artist group SWAMP has kicked off a three-part series of exhibitions at NADiff Gallery: solo shows by each of the principal members Takano Itohisa and Yamane Yasuhiro, to be followed by a collaborative exhibition. The firstView More >
ⓒ Naoko Tamura Director Aoyama Shinji’s Le Petit Chaperon Rouge will make its Japanese screen debut at Vacant in Harajuku. Also underway at the same venue is a photo exhibition by Tamura Naoko featuring portraits taken during the making ofView More >
Left: Moriyama Daido Photo Sawatari Hajime Right: Ohtake Shinro ⓒ Nakano Masataka Moriyama Daido’s Hokkaido – Introduction opens 12 September at Sapporo PARCO. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ohtake Shinro, who has collaborated with the photographer on a number of magazinesView More >
9.5 – 11.23 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Angki Purbandono Stay Hungry 2009 Marking the Museum’s tenth anniversary, and taking as its theme ‘LIVE and LET LIVE: Creators of Tomorrow’, the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale will feature 40 artists fromView More >
Opening weekend (5-6 September) of the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale will be chock-full of events from morning to night! Scheduled are talks by the Xijing Men, Huang Yong Ping and Shahzia Sikander; Nomura Makoto’s collaboration with middle school students;View More >
7.25 – 11.15 Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) Almagul Menlibayeva Jihad 2004 © Almagul Menlibayeva; courtesy the artist and Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin Video art and cinema practice from across Asia and the Middle East with works by nearly 50View More >
Amemiya Yosuke truth, 2005, oil on FRP Courtesy Yuka Sasahara Gallery An art fair dubbed KOMAZAWA MUSEUM X ART will take place next month at a housing gallery near Komazawa Park. Works by one or two of more than 30View More >
Photo Honma Takashi The Mitsubishi Ichigokan is slated to reopen in April 2010 as the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo following restoration to its original Meiji-period design. To celebrate the completion of the project, the building will open to public inView More >
9.9 – 10.10 NAGAMINE (Shanghai) Two of Us 2009 Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm Gracing the brand-new walls of a gallery scheduled to make its debut on opening day of ShContemporary 2009 will be new works by KomuraView More >
9.5 – 10.11 Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM (Fukuoka) Green House 2008 Emulsion, 794 x 437 cm / 794 x 62.5cm / 794 x 50 cm Kyushu University Ito Campus The first solo exhibition in Japan of the artist whose painting installations beganView More >
Dazaifu Tenmangu, Ema Hall Artist Michael Lin will present an original ema votive painting to the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Fukuoka. Lin embarked on the project after visiting the shrine last year. Lin’s painting will be dedicated to the shrineView More >