Opening this week Matsui Fuyuko Etude for Nyctalopia 2004, Pencil on Paper The cool of the evening 8.17 – 9.5 GALLERY NARUYAMA (Kudan) http://www.gallery-naruyama.com The Light: Matsumoto Yoko / Noguchi Rika 8.19 – 10.19 The National Art Center, Tokyo (Roppongi)View More >
8.29 – 10.12 Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito James Turrell Soft Cell 1992 Photo Anzai Shigeo An attempt to highlight the pleasures of contemporary art by presenting it in a friendlier form. Along with works by James Turrell, SoneView More >
Jung Yeondoo Korean artist Jung Yeondoo will hold two open filming sessions at the Yokohama Museum of Art for Cinemagician, a work in the making to be screened at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009. Appearing atView More >
Luminosity 1997, Courtesy Marina Abramović Archive and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York A retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance art master Marina Abramović (b. 1946 in Yugoslavia) is slated for 2010 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Featuring someView More >
Artist Kiki Smith received the 50th Edward MacDowell Medal. The Medal is awarded each year by America’s leading artists colony, The MacDowell Colony, to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her field. Visual artists whoView More >
6.19 – 8.16 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius http://www.cac.lt/en.php/exhibitions/current/21 Opening day Photo Urano Mutsumi Installation view of Kusama Yayoi’s Dots Obsession-Infinity Mirrored Room 2008 Courtesy the artist and Ota Fine Arts Installation view of Paramodel’s Paramodelic – Graffiti 2009 Courtesy theView More >
Notices – Member giveaways through 26 August https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_give_e/rIYP2Nx5icpTbDoFMgJA/ – ART iT seeking interns https://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_artit/4yMjqaVE5osuheLntlSk/ This weeks picks Feature: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 Interview with the general director Kitagawa Fram; beginner’s guide; video and photo rep orts https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_feature_e/YoazcUFpqvKVPjsdLRbm/ Snapshots: Echigo-Tsumari ArtView More >
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained by police on 12 August in the Sichuan city of Chengdu. He was in Chengdu to give evidence in defense of writer and environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who was on trial there for subversion. AiView More >
Memory, a major new site-specific sculpture installation by Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 21 October to 28 March 2010. The show marks the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s first collaborationView More >
■Event The third annual staging of the generation- and genre-crossing art project launched by Nakamura Masato and fellow artists born in the Akita prefecture city of Odate to increase awareness of the charms of the local area opens today. TakingView More >