A series of talks featuring a new guest each session, Yanaka Talk vol. 1: the business of art kicked off last weekend. The event is being staged in conjunction with art-Link Ueno-Yanaka 2009, currently underway in Tokyo’s Ueno-Yanaka-Nezu-Sendagi area. SessionView More >
Tokyo Midtown Award 2009 art competition jury members Igarashi Takenobu, Kojima Yayoi, Shimizu Toshio, Nakayama Daisuke, and Hachiya Kazuhiko have made their second-screening selections. Now the four nominees – Hirata Sou, Fukumoto Ayumi, Fujii Hidemasa, and Yamamoto Marie – willView More >
CASA BRUTUS Vol.114 (out 10 September） Feature: Art, Architecture and Design in Kyoto http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/115/ Bijutsu-techo Vol.61 (out 17 September) Feature: Basic Knowledge for Artists http://www.bijutsu.co.jp/bt/ Illustration No.179 (out 26 September） Feature: Designers’ works Ikeda Shingo / Watanabe Yoshie http://www.genkosha.co.jp/np/detail.do?magazine_id=5 Bijutu-no-madoView More >
10.6 – 2.7 Asia Society Museum (New York) Azalea 2007 Paint on wood Installation view at PKM Gallery, Seoul © Suda Yoshihiro Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Solo show by a Japanese artist whose hyper-real sculptures of flowers and plants, delicately carved fromView More >
10.3 – 11.29 The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) Shaun Gladwell Storm Sequence 2000 Video still Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia Two screenings a week of four videos by four artists (units) revealing the diversityView More >
Presenting trajectories in Japanese and international performing arts since its launch in 1993, NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival) celebrates its 30th staging – international and Asian series combined. The milestone edition – taking place over three Japanese cities –View More >
■Event Callum Morton Valhalla 2007 Photo Callum Morton ©Anna Schwartz Gallery and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Melbourne’s annual festival of performing and visual arts brings together a mind-bogglingly broad range of contemporary art, dance, film, music, theatre, and more fromView More >
9.27 – 2.7 City Gallery Wellington Dots Obsession-Day 2009 Mixed media Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Copyright Kusama Yayoi and Yayoi Kusama Studio A New Zealand gallery celebrates the completion of its major expansion project with a solo exhibition byView More >
It’s official! January 2010 will see the premiere of a new Tokyo contemporary art fair: G-tokyo 2010. What sets this fair apart from other Japanese fairs is the international scale of the 15 participating galleries, namely: ARATANIURANO, Gallery Koyanagi, GalleryView More >
Film director, actor, and professor at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Kitano Takeshi presents his first ever art exhibition next March at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Among JapaneseView More >