Following three years of arts collaboration that included the Trace Elements exhibition staged last year at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Australia and Japan are developing together a biennial they’ve dubbed the Utopia Project. The project would involve exhibitions,View More >
Courtesy Ron Bainbridge British artist Peter Newman’s UFO-like Skystation began its extended stay outside the Hayward Gallery in London today. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s classic LC4 chaise-lounge, the sculpture doubles as a piece of public seating designed to fit theView More >
Murakami Takashi’s wall-to-wall interior décor for Louis Vuitton’s Omotesando store – a project launched in April in concert with the artist’s latest collaborative collection for the fashion super-brand, Multicolor Spring Palette – will see it’s last day on 16 July.View More >
The third in a series of talks on Kusama Yayoi staged in conjunction with the artist’s solo show at Takahashi Collection Hibiya. For this round collector Takahashi Ryutaro is joined by Matsumoto Takako, director of the documentary film Near EqualView More >
The thing I want to savor more than anything else is the ‘source’ from which the work originates. All I really want to do is to touch it, to get truly close to it. Beautiful, fleeting images based on scenesView More >
July 6 marked the launch of Antony Gormley’s living monument project One & Other in which every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, a different person stands on the otherwise empty Fourth Plinth in the northwest corner ofView More >
The Singapore United Overseas Bank has awarded the 28th Painting of the Year Award to Space In Between, a series of photographs by the young Singaporean artist Zhao Renhui (b. 1983). In addition to S$30,000 in prize money, the artistView More >
On 6 July, Phillips de Pury & Company announced the launch of a new series of theme-based auctions. The first sale, Now: Art of the 21st Century, will take place in London on 12 September offering works of art, designView More >
Timed to coincide with the French art fair FIAC09, the Centre Pompidou will stage Un Nouveau Festival, an exhibition organized by Centre director Bernard Blistène featuring works by Carsten Höller, Andrea Bloom, Jorge Pardo, and Franz West among others. RelatedView More >
The Music of Regret (2006), a film by New York artist Laurie Simmons that grew out of her photographic works, will be screening this weekend at Rise X in Shibuya. Structured as a three-act mini musical, in Act 1 vintageView More >