The Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka has announced it will be closing its doors at the end December 2010. Suntory Holdings Limited, which operates the Museum, will merge with the Suntory Music Foundation on 1 September 2009, to becomeView More >
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Raqs Media Collective: Escapement @ Frith Street Gallery
7.8 – 9.30 Frith Street Gallery, London http://www.frithstreetgallery.com ART iT ArtBlog: Raqs https://www.art-it.asia/u/ab_raqsmc/ ART iT Picks: Raqs Media Collective: Escapement https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrec_e/JkPl2vW80tyrNGjxAOsV/
Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 launched
Event Yanobe Kenji Lucky Dragon (study drawing) 2009 (c) Yanobe Kenji Art boat designed to cruise area waterways An event staged to symbolize Osaka’s revitalization as a city of water, Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 kicked off today. Among an extensive programView More >
Song Dong
A mother alive even after death Currently on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Song Dong’s Waste Not installation was a joint effort with the artist’s mother, employing an immense collection of household goods sheView More >
Senju Hiroshi completes new work on Naoshima
Art House Project Ishibashi, Photo Watanabe Osamu Nihonga artist Senju Hiroshi has complete his new work for the Benesse Art Site Naoshima Art House Project, a series of permanent installations in which artists transform vacant houses on the island intoView More >
Xijing Men Crosstalk
Xijing Men (l to r: Chen Shaoxiong, Ozawa Tsuyoshi and Gimhongsok) There was a northern capital (Beijing), a southern capital (Nanjing) and an eastern capital (Tokyo), but no western capital (Xijing)…until the Xijing Men (Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Chen Shaoxiong and Gimhongsok)View More >
Yozo Hamaguchi Print Competition winners announced
Lim Jihye the black buffalo #2 Mezzotint Korean artist Lim Jihye is the grand prizewinner of the international printmaking competition staged to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of mezzotint artist Hamaguchi Yozo. Japanese artist Kobayashi Misako took secondView More >
LOAPS Art Room open
LOAPS Art Room, offering classes to a wide range of people from children to budding artists, is now operating in Tokyo. Assuming the roles of directors and special instructors are art critic Ichihara Kentaro, artist Hiro Sugiyama, and gallerist YoshiiView More >
Huang Rui: Comerchina
9.17 – 10.10 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) Comerchina – Hopscotch Installation A solo show of new paintings and installations exploring new China’s over-commercialization and obsession with money. The artist coined the word ‘Comerchina’ to mean ‘Commercial China’View More >
Cemeti Art House non-active until November
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 >
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection (Gunma)
7.4 – 8.31 Hara Museum ARC http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Max Streicher Sleeping Giants (Silenus) 2002, mixed media Kato Izumi Untitled 2008 Tabaimo Midnight sea 2006/2008, video installation Kusama Yayoi Mirror room (pumpkin) 1991 Mirrors, iron, wood, plaster, styrofoam , acrylic – AnimalsView More >
Japan Media Arts Festival in Linz
■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 >