A charity exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of Japan’s Central and Pacific baseball leagues. The curated segment, Future 60, will feature works taking baseball as their theme by 60 artists/units active across a variety of creativeView More >
NHK Educational TV’s Sunday Museum will feature the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, currently underway in Niigata, on its August 30th broadcast. Titled ‘Ten years in Echigo-Tsumari: land of greenery, rice balls and art’, the festival’s general director Kitagawa Fram willView More >
Busan’s first hotel-based art fair, ARTO BUSAN 2009, launches this weekend in the Korean port city. Some 70 galleries from countries across Asia including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore are slated to exhibit. Japanese galleries include Mizuma ArtView More >
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Nawa Kohei (part 1) Text in Japanese PixCell-Elk#2 2009, Mixed media ©Omote Nobutada Courtesy of the Hermès Foundation https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrec_e/OyteLSv0RKz8lJbBhUdA PixCell[Toy-Stealth(flying mode)#1] 2003 30.3x21x4.8cm, Mixed media, Photo Kioku Keizo, Courtesy SCAI THE BATHHOUSEView More >
For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is held over a vast area of 760View More >
Claude Lévêque In silence or in noises 2009 A chance to experience art from around the world amid natural surroundings, in quiet rural settings far from metropolitan galleries and museums. The producer of the event asserts that ‘contemporary artView More >
Kaikai Kiki artist Mr. has just published his first dojinshi(fanzine) and will be presenting this new offering at this summer’s Comic Market 76. Mr. will be exhibiting on day 3 of the three-day annual exhibition and spot sales event. TheView More >
8.1 – 11.8 Heide Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) The Duck-Rabbit Problem 1991 Synthetic fur, synthetic stuffing, wood, polystyrene, enamel paint © Kathy Temin This survey spans 20 years of Kathy Temin’s inventive sculptural practice by combining her earlyView More >
Siding Railroad 8.28 – 9.23 Former Seibu Railway Tokorozawa railroad car factory (Saitama) Photo YamamotoTadasu An artist-initiated biennial exhibition planned and operated in close alliance with its locale, for which, barring grants, the participating artists also raised the funding. LeadView More >
Opening this week Kazz Sasaguchi the study for exhibition work 2009 Perception and Urban Environments 8.11 – 30 Tokyo Wonder Site http://www.tokyo-ws.org Urban / Graffiti Art – The Future of Street Art: From Jamie Reid to Banksy Bunkamura GalleryView More >
Mark Borthwick anna rose’ if handed down 7.18 – 8.15 Gallery Side 2 http://www.galleryside2.net ART iT News: Four Mark Borthwick exhibitions in Tokyo Four Mark Borthwick exhibitions in Tokyo
Morimoto Mie: Single Plural 8.3 – 9.13 (summer holiday: 8.10 – 17) Misako & Rosen http://www.misakoandrosen.com/en/