7.28 – 10.25 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Left: Louisa Bufardeci Team Joy 2004, Mixed media installation Right: Ito Zon The End of the Neighborhood 2000, Embroidery on fabric The fourth in a series of projects pairing an AustralianView More >
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Ai Weiwei: part 1
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,View More >
Artist group SWAMP exhibitions at NADiff Gallery
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 >
Aoyama Shinji film screening and talk
ⓒ 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 >
Talk: Moriyama Daido x Ohtake Shinro in Sapporo
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 >
The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009
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 artistsView More >
Opening events at the Fukuoka Triennale
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 >
The View from Elsewhere
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 nearlyView More >
Art fair at Komazawa Park Housing Gallery
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 >
Preopening exhibition at Mitsubishi Ichigokan
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 >
Marefumi Komura
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 byView More >
Michael Lin: room
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 installationsView More >