The balance between ethics and aesthetics Text: Matsuura Naomi Confronted by the deluge of images in the modern world, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar remains steadfastly skeptical of their use as spectacle. Taking images that offer a fragment, aView More >
Creative endeavor as game spectator Text: Yanashita Tomoko Portrait: Inoue Yoshikazu Tao Soju presents his work as head of OkamePro, an imaginary entertainment production company, and as one of the company’s stable of artists. The company has its origins inView More >
7.12 – 10.12 Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art Won Seoung Won Tomorrow – Village of dogs 2008 LightJet print 120 x 200 cm Group show featuring Korean artists born in the 1970s. The title alludes to antithetical concepts suchView More >
‘Once in a lifetime’ art marking time and memories Text: Ozaki Tetsuya Portrait: Ishikawa Natsuko Many of Miyanaga’s works, pale and ephemeral, vanish over the space of a few weeks. Take for example her objects made from napthalene. The semitransparentView More >
7.11 – 9.6 Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi (Wellington) Fiona Connor Props 2008 Paint, wood, linoleum, commercial fittings, Perspex Installation at You Are Here, ARTSPACE, Auckland Speculating upon whether it is possible for art now to influence what isView More >
Plans are underway for Japanese screening and distribution of the US public educational channel PBS contemporary art documentary art:21. The series includes interviews with prominent artists, and footage of artists at work. art:21 official website http://www.pbs.org/art21/ Tomo Suzuki Japan (JapaneseView More >
Popular art spot TKG Daikanyama, which opened in September 2007, will close with the end of the current exhibition, featuring work by up-and-coming ceramic artist Aoki Ryota. Through June 20 (Sat) at TKG Daikanyama http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/TKGD/jpn/frame.html
7.10 – 8.30 Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Riyas Komu Takeaway (detail) 2009 Courtesy the artist India Xianzai explores notions of what constitutes Indian-ness in the context of contemporary art in today’s global community. Through the work of 21 internationallyView More >
A drop of humor for parched minds Text: Kojima Yayoi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi “I call these my instant diamonds. I collect plastic packages with nothing written on them. They’re no longer of any use, but when light shines on them,View More >
7.8 – 8.3 Mag:net Gallery, Ayala Avenue (Manila) Having shifted to two-dimensional mode in the recent past, this sculptor-animator-painter now returns to doing the witty bricolage he had come to be known for when he was cited as one ofView More >
6.28 – 9.20 Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/ 11.22 – 2.14 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston http://www.mfah.org/ Billed as the first major exhibition of contemporaryKorean art in the United States inalmost two decades, Your Bright Future featuresartists bornView More >
6.27 – 7.25 ShugoArts (Tokyo) Ikeda Mitsuhiro’s second solo show, and first in two years, at ShugoArts. The artist describes his paintings as ‘engaging more actively with things gleaned from reality, thereby generating new images that change our perceptions ofView More >