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 >
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 hasView More >
9.5 – 10.3 Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo) 7F Photo Jan Bauer ©Jonathan Meese The German artist who at last year’s Yokohama Triennale presented an inflammatory performance in a space inscribed in large letters with the words ‘Dictatorship of Art’, who playedView More >
Installation view at Marianne Boesky Gallery Project Space (New York), 2008 (c) Yuichi Higashionna Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates, Marianne Boesky Gallery Metamorphosis – Objects Today is an eight-part series of exhibitions curated by Amano Kazuo (Chief Curator, Toyota Municipal MuseumView More >
For the next round of his talk session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes curator Hasegawa Yuko (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo). In light of his guest’s stellar background as the founding director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,View More >
Kawashima Hideaki bye, 2005 The first round of talk events planned by the Takahashi Collection in conjunction with neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are “soshokukei – herbivorous artists”? currently underway at the gallery. Collector Takahashi Ryutaro welcomes exhibiting artists KawashimaView More >
The year’s staging of the Paris art fair FIAC will see the launch of a new satellite fair focusing on emerging artists: Cutlog. Organized by the artist and filmmaker Bruno Hadjadj and with Mercedes Benz as main sponsor, someView More >
9.5 – 10.3 ShugoArts (Tokyo) Deers, Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2008 Type-C print 105.6 x 136.6cm An artist whose photographic practice fixes its sight on the history and memories latent in places and things. This solo show features a body ofView More >
9.5 – 10.3 hiromiyoshii (Tokyo) The New York-based artist’s second solo show with hiromiyoshii. This group of two-dimensional works featuring the artist’s own name writ large seems to pass comment on the history of self-portraiture (even graffiti-style expression?),View More >
■Event In conjunction with his solo show underway at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Kitajima Keizo welcomes a host of guests in a series of three talks. For the first he chats with the director of the documentary filmView More >
9.5 – 10.3 Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo) SUPERMODELS Work in progress, 2009 June Photo Kenji Takahashi Solo show by the London-based artist team. Masterminds behind one of the most talked about pavilions (the Nordic) at this year’s Venice BiennaleView More >
A collection of some 400 photographs culled from 40 photobooks by key Japanese photographers of the 1960s and 70s including Moriyama Daido, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Nakahira Takuma, Shinoyama Kishin and Tomatsu Shomei. Published by Aperture, New York, outView More >