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 21View 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 FutureView 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 >
6.27 – 7.18 Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta) Solo show by an artist who’s been in huge demand in the Asian art market ever since he represented Indonesia at the first Singapore Biennale (2007). Defying perhaps the art market’s penchant forView More >
6.24 – 9.7 The Museum of Modern Art (New York) The MoMA atrium is host to the Chinese artist’s Waste Not, first shown in 2005 at BTAP in Beijing and thereafter touring Gwangju, Berlin, and Walsall. Song DongView More >
6.22 – 7.19 MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo) A cross-discipline group show by a party of 26 artists. Deriving from the German word gewalt (power), the expression geba geba came into use during the ’60s Japanese student movement to express anView More >
6.19 – 9.23 Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum (Tokyo) Scum – Complusion, 2008 Large-scale exhibition of new works by the 1975-born artist from his PixCell series of objects transformed by encasing them in a skin of glass beads orView More >
6.19 – 10.11 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) Iconic portrait painter Yan Pei-Ming’s first show off the canvas yearns to be framed as ‘installation’, with its giant landscapes painted on the walls of UCCA and ‘painted flags’View More >
I tend to be in limbo to start with, and insert lies in each piece as I go along. Artist Sawa Hiraki is best known for films suffused with subtle smatterings of lyrical fabrication, commonly set in hisView More >
6.18 – 30 Sigiarts (Jakarta) An exhibition of leading Indonesian artists who make themselves the subjects of their works. Participating artists include Agus Suwage, who uses himself as a motif peppered with humor to satirize political and religious views; BudiView More >