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 >
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Call for entries in the CREAM competition
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 >
Pot Luck: Food and Art
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 to stage solo show in London
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 >
Take the weird and wonderful world of Yokoo with you…
…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 >
MEXT budget announcement
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 >
Autumn dates for reprised Festival/Tokyo 09
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 >
Signs of a recovery in the Asian art market? Christie’s Hong Kong
…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 >
Bar (Modoki) Mujin-to open for business
To celebrate their third anniversary, Mujin-to Production of Koenji, Tokyo have opened up their gallery space as a bar (or something like a bar?) for a limited time only. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Friday 29 May – Friday 26View More >
Raqib Shaw
5.20 – 7.4 White Cube (London) Photo Stephen White Shaw takes his decorative surrealism to new proportions, with seven paintings, including his biggest to date – seven meters wide – and his first large-scale sculptural installation. The Kashmir Valley nativeView More >