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  Artist Kiki Smith received the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal. The Medal is awarded each year by America’s leading artists colony, The MacDowell Colony, to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her field. Visual artistsView More >

Notices – Member giveaways through 26 August https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_give_e/rIYP2Nx5icpTbDoFMgJA/ – ART iT seeking interns https://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_artit/4yMjqaVE5osuheLntlSk/ This weeks picks Feature: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 Interview with the general director Kitagawa Fram; beginner’s guide; video and photo rep orts https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_feature_e/YoazcUFpqvKVPjsdLRbm/ Snapshots: Echigo-Tsumari ArtView More >

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by police on 12 August in the Sichuan city of Chengdu. He was in Chengdu to give evidence in defense of writer and environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who was on trial there for subversion. AiView More >

  Memory, a major new site-specific sculpture installation by Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 21 October to 28 March 2010. The show marks the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s firstView More >

■Event     The third annual staging of the generation- and genre-crossing art project launched by Nakamura Masato and fellow artists born in the Akita prefecture city of Odate to increase awareness of the charms of the local area opensView More >

Koyama Tomio Gallerist Koyama Tomio (Tomio Koyama Gallery) joins ART iT’s own editor-in-chief, Ozaki Tetsuya for his series of discussions about ‘What is Japanese art?.’ Koyama has been a driving force in the Japanese art scene, and a key figureView More >

Suzushiro Nikki Hatori Press ¥2,625 To celebrate the publication of his Suzushiro Nikki (The radish diary) in book form, artist Yamaguchi Akira will appear today at the Maruzen bookstore in Tokyo for a talk and booksigning. The book contains 50View More >

  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 >