5.23 – 6.26 Island 6 (Shanghai) Synesthesia is the first in a six-part series of exhibitions that focuses on how studies of consciousness have inspired artworks. The inaugural exhibition explores themes of paranormal studies, evolutionary theory and lucid dreaming throughView More >
5.22-7.19 The Bluecoat (Liverpool) http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/ 9.11-11.1 City Museum and Art Gallery (Bristol) www.bristol.gov.uk/museums 11.14-1.11 The Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh) http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/ Featuring artists whose practices involve drawing as an integral element, this international mini-survey focuses predominately on the figurative or representational. From the abstractView More >
A bridge between art and pop culture: that what I want to be As China undergoes a process of rapid, radical urbanization and modernization, a young artist born and raised in the dynamic urban center of Guangzhou is building aView More >
The International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama (CREAM) to open in October is calling for entries in its media arts competition. The preliminary and final rounds of judging in this attempt to postulate new forms of visual expression forView More >
5.22 – 7.19 The New Art Gallery Walsall http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/ 7.29 – 9.23 Aberystwyth Arts Centre http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/ 10.22 – 12.5 PM Gallery & House (London) http://www.ealing.gov.uk/ Anthony Key China Garden, 2007 250 tin foil takeaway boxes, strip wood Seventeen acclaimed artists cook up aView More >
Anish Kapoor Svayambh 2007 A major one-man exhibition by Anish Kapoor, known for his massive installations, is to be staged at London’s Royal Academy of Arts this autumn. The show will feature recent works such as Svayambh (2007), plus site-specificView More >
…wherever you go! The MoMA store now stocks a range of stationery featuring designs from the art of Yokoo Tadanori. Yokoo Notebook 6h x 4.25w x 1″d $18.95 Yokoo Note Cards 4.25h x 5.5w x 1.5″d $15.95 Yokoo Pocket JournalView More >
The Japanese government has announced its supplementary budget for the 2009 financial year: 13.9256 trillion yen. Of this the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) portion totals 1.3174 trillion yen, 31.5 billion of which has been allocatedView More >
The first Festival/Tokyo featuring Japanese and international performing artists was staged in February – March this year. A second festival will now be held in October at venues around Ikebukuro. Many performers from the first festival, including Romeo Castellucci, AmeyaView More >
…Hong Kong A sale of 20th century Chinese art and Asian contemporary art was held at Christie’s Hong Kong over two days from May 24. According to Christie’s official figures, 34 items were presented at the first day’s sale, fetchingView More >