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 iidaView More >
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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 fromView 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 theView 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 ‘MeetingView 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 2009View 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 theView More >
Yokoo Tadanori: Incomplete
8.1 – 11.3 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa What’s yours is mine. What’s mine is mine. 2009 Oil on canvas 194×194cm (c)Tadanori Yokoo Solo show of mainly new works by the graphic designer turned painter whose involvementView More >
Ohtake Shinro: Naoshima Public Bath ‘I ♥ 湯’ (I Love Yu)
7.25.2009 Art: Ohtake Shinro Design & Architectural Design: Shinro Ohtake / graf Produced by: Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation Operated by the Naoshima Tourism Association (NPO) and Miyanoura District Association ART iT/ArtPartners: TakeNinagawa Shinro Ohtake | Naoshima PublicView More >
Merce Cunningham dead at 90
Merce Cunningham, one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century, died Sunday night, 26 July. He was 90. Merce Cunningham Dance Company http://www.merce.org/
Hiroshima Art Project 2009
The third staging of the art project launched in 2007 that takes the city of Hiroshima as its stage. This year the Yoshijima area is liken to a treasure ship, which visitors tour ‘treasure-hunt’ style, looking for artworks scattered throughout.View More >
Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
Mickalene Thomas Portrait of Qusuquzah, 2008 © Mickalene Thomas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery The third staging of New York International Center of Photography (ICP)’s global survey of new work in photography and video – focusing this timeView More >