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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2009, which kicks off Sunday in Niigata, has established an information center in Tokyo. Stop by and pick up guidebooks and this year’s art map – otherwise only available on site – to help plan your tripView More >

Avant-garde stage artist Robert Wilson pays homage to Japanese choreographer Hanayagi Suzushi, a long-time friend and collaborator, with KOOL- Dancing in My Mind. Now 80, Hanayagi studied classical Japanese dance and modern dance in the 1950s. She moved to theView More >

Choreographer, dancer and driving force in the world dance scene Teshigawara Saburo will present his new work Mirror and Music at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in autumn. For this outing Teshigawara not only undertakes choreography, direction, art direction, lighting,View More >

In recent times, terrorist attacks among other things has meant the cost of insuring artwork on loan from overseas has skyrocketed, thus creating an obstacle to the holding of large exhibitions. In response to this, the Agency for Cultural AffairsView More >

Photo Nick Cobbing British artist Roger Hiorns’ arresting sculptural project Seizure – an abandoned London flat transformed into a cavern coated in copper sulfate crystals that first opened last autumn – will reopen from 23 July. The work led toView More >

Melody Cup, a new performance piece by Takamine Tadasu, will be staged in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Itami. The multitalented artist known for his performance, video and installation works received critical acclaim for his collaboration last year with musicianView More >

A four-hour discussion about issues surrounding media and art will be held with media artist Fujihata Masaki (Director of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts), art critic and poet Akira Tatehata (Director ofView More >

The ‘I love Art – Art & Capitalism: Art Lovers’ Mixer’, a place to meet other art enthusiasts both male and female, has been organized by Civic Art, an organization whose purpose is to create contact points between art andView More >

The National Stadium Beijing, the symbol of the 2008 Beijing Olympics known as the ‘Bird’s Nest’, is the winner of the Royal Institute of Architecture’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize for 2009. The Stadium was designed by Swiss architects Herzog & deView More >