Rendering of design for the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion Courtesy SANNA The Serpentine Gallery’s latest Summer Pavilion, an undulating floating pool-like structure designed by SANAA (Sejima Kazuyo and Nishzawa Ryue), was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park. The pavilion opensView More >
ARTnews magazine has published their annual list of the world’s top collectors, the majority of whom collect modern and contemporary art. Making the list from the Asia-Pacific region are Fukutake Soichiro and Sato Tatsumi from Japan, Monique and Max BurgerView More >
7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum (Shirokane Takanawa) Kiyokawa Asami Complex-voice 2007 Photograph, embroidery thread Photo Takemi Art Photos A group show by eight Japanese artists using – as the title suggests – needle and thread as their expressiveView More >
6.23 – 9.6 Hayward Gallery (London) Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession, 2009 Mixed media Ten international artists including Thomas Hirschhorn, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Tyson along with Kusama Yayoi, Nara Yoshitomo and Shiota Chiharu from Japan present large-scale installations in the Hayward’sView More >
Photo Charles Duprat The Opéra Bastille celebrates its twentieth anniversary with Am Anfang (Beginning), an original work conceived and staged (including sets and costumes) by artist Anselm Kiefer (music Jörg Widmann) from 7-14 July. The thoroughly Kieferesque ruins-like stage setView More >
Following three years of arts collaboration that included the Trace Elements exhibition staged last year at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Australia and Japan are developing together a biennial they’ve dubbed the Utopia Project. The project would involve exhibitions,View More >
Courtesy Ron Bainbridge British artist Peter Newman’s UFO-like Skystation began its extended stay outside the Hayward Gallery in London today. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s classic LC4 chaise-lounge, the sculpture doubles as a piece of public seating designed to fit theView More >
Murakami Takashi’s wall-to-wall interior décor for Louis Vuitton’s Omotesando store – a project launched in April in concert with the artist’s latest collaborative collection for the fashion super-brand, Multicolor Spring Palette – will see it’s last day on 16 July.View More >
The third in a series of talks on Kusama Yayoi staged in conjunction with the artist’s solo show at Takahashi Collection Hibiya. For this round collector Takahashi Ryutaro is joined by Matsumoto Takako, director of the documentary film Near EqualView More >
The thing I want to savor more than anything else is the ‘source’ from which the work originates. All I really want to do is to touch it, to get truly close to it. Beautiful, fleeting images based on scenesView More >
July 6 marked the launch of Antony Gormley’s living monument project One & Other in which every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, a different person stands on the otherwise empty Fourth Plinth in the northwest corner ofView More >
The Singapore United Overseas Bank has awarded the 28th Painting of the Year Award to Space In Between, a series of photographs by the young Singaporean artist Zhao Renhui (b. 1983). In addition to S$30,000 in prize money, the artistView More >