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  A driving force in the Yogyakarta art scene, Cemeti Art House will close from August through November, while it revises the direction of its activities. Future not-for-profit activities will focus on their new Art Practice and Society projects fromView More >

■Exhibition The Agency of Cultural Affairs-sponsored media arts festival will join Europe’s largest media arts festival, Ars Electronica, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, by holding the Japan Media Arts Festival in Linz. The two festivals will take place concurrently,View More >

Editors’ picks (13-19 August) Review: Martin Creed @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrev_e Video: Mark Borthwick https://www.art-it.asia/fpage/?OP=mov Snapshots: Big in Japan @ Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_expht_e/FfpQMb6Z5qzmTjdAkyP3/ News: Ai Weiwei detained inView More >

■Event   Shimura Nobuhiro translate 2007 Photo Taniguchi Urara Held for the first time last year in Yokohama’s former red-light district as an attempt at ‘revitalizing the area through art’, the Koganecho Bazaar will take place again this autumn. TakingView More >

  For the second time this month, galleries and other venues in the city of Kawaguchi, where one in every 25 residents is from overseas and many from other Asian countries, join forces in staging the Kawaguchi Asian Art Project.View More >

  September 2009 will mark the first staging of a new annual international arts festival, flux-s, in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Visual arts, performance art, music, architecture, literature, and more will take to the buildings and streets of theView More >

Takano Ryudai and Vivienne Sato For the sixth and last staging of his talk series, Taka no Heya (Taka’s Room), photographer Takano Ryudai welcomes as his guest the drag queen and non-architect (among a long list of titles), Vivienne Sato.View More >