7.18 – 8.29 Kodama Gallery (Kyoto) Miyanaga Akira took the limelight for his graduation exhibition at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2008 and went on to receive the Iida Shihiko Award at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi in 2009. HereView More >
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Exhibition protesting censorship at exhibition
An exhibition protesting the Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum’s censorship of artist Oura Nobuyuki’s collage works in its staging of Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War art under the Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9 in April 2009. Talk events and performances byView More >
New works in Toyocho by Odani Motohiko et al.
Odani Motohiko Hallucigenia 2009 Glass, stainless steel 363 x 283 x 262 cm A new commission by artist Odani Motohiko has been permanently installed at the SKY Perfect Toyocho Media Center completed in spring 2009. The tactile sculpture, Hallucigenia, is composedView More >
India Art Summit 2009
Booths at India Art Summit 2008 The second staging of India’s modern and contemporary art fair in New Delhi will see 54 galleries, primarily from India, but also from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Participating fromView More >
Kawamata Tadashi Cafe Talk
Artistic director of the 2005 Yokohama Triennale and professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, artist Kawamata Tadashi’s Cafe Talk dialogue series, launched in 2002, will be held for three days starting tonight. In anticipation of hisView More >
Kusama Yayoi mobile on sale
Based on the idea of a mobile phone as art, KDDI brand iida collaborated with artist Kusama Yayoi to produce three limited edition models. The phones will be available starting 7pm (JST) on Thursday 30 July through the iida websiteView More >
Tickets now on sale for Azumabashi Dance Crossing
Yasumoto Masako A showcase event with an emphasis on the performing arts renowned for its lineup of individualistic artists. Event regulars such as Yasumoto Masako will be joined this time by Chim↑Pom (presenting an installation), Ameya Norimizu and other contemporaryView More >
INTERVALLO, intervals in-between art, fashion and design
6.26 – 8.2 BankART NYK Studio (Yokohama) Three women designers based in Berlin, London, and Milano present the joys of art born of their fashion, interior, and product design-based practices: creative work, as the title suggests, freed from conventional categorization.View More >
Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories
7.16 – 10.18 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) Floating Memories Installation view Photo Jean-Lou Majeru A new installation combining sound, sculpture and video by the Sino-European artist born in Luxembourg, whose pavilion featuring her work was winner of the GoldenView More >
Talk: video artist Idemitsu Mako
Film and media art critic Stephen Sarrazin talks with video art pioneer Idemitsu Mako, reflecting on her career, which has been highly acclaimed in North America and Europe. (In English with interpretation) PLUS QUE PARFAIT: Video art evening ‘Meeting withView More >
Liu Ding: Selected Works
5.29 – 8.22 L.A. Gallery（Frankfurt） A Girl Holding a Skull Standing on a Kidney 2007 Resin, porcelain, fabric Approx 120x75x180 cm A solo exhibition by the Chinese artist also currently showing work in the Chinese Pavilion at the 2009 VeniceView More >
Public bathhouse by Ohtake Shinro opens on Naoshima
Artist Ohtake Shinro’s I ♥ 湯 (I love YU) art installation cum public bathhouse opened July 26th on the inland sea island of Naoshima. The space features mosaics and large-scale collages of image-printed tiles at the bottom of the baths,View More >