Yto Barrada Fille aux tabourets, Casablanca 2000 Courtesy Galerie Polaris, Paris The international photography trade fair held each year in November bringing together more than 100 galleries and publishers from all over the world. Each year theView More >
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Poetry Marathon at the Serpentine
Manifesto Marathon Park Nights 2008 Photo Mark Blower The fourth in the innovative series of Marathons staged each year at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Conceived by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, the first Interview Marathon (2006) involved 24 hours of interviewsView More >
Subodh Gupta: Common Man
10.1 – 31 Hauser & Wirth, London Et tu, Duchamp? 2009, Black bronze Courtesy the gallery In the new works presented here, Gupta moves away from composite sculptures toward objects loaded with symbolism, using commodities such as marble, bronze and steel. ForView More >
Two days of Malaysian video art in Tokyo
Nur Hanim Khairuddin seRANGga 2005 Malaysia is a home to myriad ethnic groups, languages, and religions. The Japan-Malaysia Video Art Exchange Program explores recent directions in Malaysian documentary films, and in the country’s video art, which is still in theView More >
War and Art IV: Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty
9.28 – 10.12 Galerie Aube (Kyoto) AES+F LAST RIOT2 Panorama #4 2006 A series of exhibitions limelighted for its bold display of war images, one of the taboos of Japanese modern art history. Part four features works by Kusama Yayoi, Yokoo TadanoriView More >
Cao Fei: Live in RMB City
10.27 – 12.20 Shiseido Gallery (Ginza) Cao Fei / China Tracy Live in RMB City 2009 Video RMB City © 2009 The internationally active young Chinese female artist who looks at changing Chinese society and everyday life from a perspectiveView More >
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection (Tokyo) (2)
8.1 – 10.12 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Francesca Woodman Untitled, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire 1976, gelatin silver print Boris Mikhailov Yesterday’s Sandwich #11 1965 – 81, color photograph Mori Hiroharu About things you know 2006, single channel video (loop) Cao Fei RMB City: AView More >
Selections from the Hara Museum Collection (Tokyo) (1)
8.1 – 10.12 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.haramuseum.or.jp Yanagi Miwa Elevator Girl House 1F, color photograph Liu Jianhua Colour Ceramic Series – Play 2001, ceramic Pipilotti Rist Laplamp 2006 Standing lamp, chair, DLP LED projectror, frashcard SD player Christian Boltanski Fête de Pourim 1990 B/W photographs,View More >
Talks by art-Link art fraternity
A series of talks featuring a new guest each session, Yanaka Talk vol. 1: the business of art kicked off last weekend. The event is being staged in conjunction with art-Link Ueno-Yanaka 2009, currently underway in Tokyo’s Ueno-Yanaka-Nezu-Sendagi area. SessionView More >
Public art production by nominees for Tokyo Midtown Award
Tokyo Midtown Award 2009 art competition jury members Igarashi Takenobu, Kojima Yayoi, Shimizu Toshio, Nakayama Daisuke, and Hachiya Kazuhiko have made their second-screening selections. Now the four nominees – Hirata Sou, Fukumoto Ayumi, Fujii Hidemasa, and Yamamoto Marie – willView More >