Yodogawa Technique Chinu – the black sea bream of Osaka Bay, 2007 Mixed media, Courtesy YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY How can art help the environment? Tokyo Wonder Site explores the possibilities by staging a series of lectures by environmentalists, works madeView More >
7.7 − 9.23 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art The Italian comtemporary sculptor and conceptual artist Giuseppe Penone whose career began in the 1960s is one of the representative artists of the arte povera movement. He has explored the nature ofView More >
Mark Borthwick, the artist, poet and musician known for his avant-garde fashion photography, will stage four overlapping shows in Tokyo, the first of which opens tomorrow. Jointly titled anna rose’ if handed down, the exhibitions will feature photographs, collages, drawingsView More >
2009.6.20-9.23 The National Museum of Art, Osaka http://www.nmao.go.jp/ Windswept Woman II 2009 ©Miwa Yanagi by Ozaki Tetsuya This is a large-scale solo exhibition by Yanagi, who is representing Japan at the Venice Biennale. Including as it does all the pieces fromView More >
Mukaiyama Tomoko the international contemporary music pianist whose practice extends to installation and performance art, launches a new, yearlong project this month that will include worldwide exhibitions and performances. Mukaiyama Tomoko: wasted http://www.wasted.nl/#/whats Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 7.26 – 9.13View More >
2008 (Nishimura gallery booth) The second staging of the Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair will be held this year from 21-23 August at the Grand Hyatt Seoul. Sixty galleries from China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan will exhibit and sellView More >
The 13th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award), established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Taro Okamoto manifested in his creative practice, is open for applications. Applications accepted 15 July – 15 September 2009. TaroView More >
Time once again for what has become a biennial Tokyo tradition: Trio the Art (artist Parco Kinoshita, art journalist Shinkawa Takashi and Contemporary Art Factory director Soga Takaaki) conduct their humor-filled briefing session on this year’s Venice Biennale. An eveningView More >
Wolfgang Tillmans © Henry Linser The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, with a history of more than half a century, has been awarded this year to artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1969 in Germany; residing in London). TheView More >
The catalogue produced to accompany the acclaimed the British artist’s first large-scale exhibition to be held in Asia – currently underway at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art – has just been published. Along with installation views are textsView More >
Okamura Design Space R is an annual project in which an architect collaborates with creatives from other disciplines. For this – the seventh – staging, Sejima Kazuyo of the architectural unit SANAA presents an exhibition titled Tomei na katachi (TransparencyView More >
6.27 – 9.12 San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) Video still from Aleksander Komarov’s On Translation: Transparency/Architecture Acoustique 2007 Courtesy the artist Amidst the cries of spiraling global economic recession, summertime comes – bringing its own redundant set of emotionally chargedView More >