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 >
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The 13th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art
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 >
‘Project Venezia’ arrives in Ebisu
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 awarded German Photo Prize
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 >
Catalog to Martin Creed’s solo show at HMoCA published
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 >
Sejima Kazuyo: Cooperative exhibition
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 >
Summertime; or, Close-ups on Places We’ve (Never) Been
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 >
What is Japanese Art 1: Aida Makoto (part 1)
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Aida Makoto (part 1) Text in Japanese. A Picture of an Air Raid on New York City (War Pictures Returns), 1996 Six-panel sliding screens, hinges, Nihon Keizai Shinbun, black-and-white photocopy on hologram paper, charcoalView More >
13 July – 20 July (Japan)
Opening this week Jung Yeondoo | An Jungju 7.16 – 29 Gallery Koyanagi (Ginza) http://www.gallerykoyanagi.com Tezuka Aiko 7.16 – 9.9 Kenji Taki Gallery / Tokyo (Shinjuku) http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kenjitaki from/to #5 Hayakawa Yuta / Muraoka Sachiko 7.16 – 8.8 Wako Works Of ArtView More >
Gallery Collection @ Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
6.20 – 7.25 Sara VanDerBeek Mika Rottenberg Mika Rottenberg Cao Fei ArtPartners: Take Ninagawa https://www.art-it.asia/u/TakeNinagawa/fGbBwx4u7ev9aCMDoPsH/
Franz West in Central Park
Austrian artist Franz West unveils The Ego and the Id in New York’s Central Park on 15 July. Each ‘leg’ of the colorful, six-meter aluminum sculpture curves at the bottom of form a stool, inviting passersby to stop and takeView More >
Call for thoughts on media arts center
Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs is calling for the public’s thoughts on the establishment of a national center for the media arts. Comments submitted by email, fax or post will be accepted through 13 July. The controversy surrounding the projectView More >