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Installation view of the “Gym” sales section of Tokyo Frontline at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2011. Photo ART iT.   From Art Fair Tokyo to 101Tokyo Contemporary, Tokyo Photo and G-Tokyo, Tokyo has seen any number of commercial art fairs comeView More >

As first reported by AFP on Feb 14, Chinese conceptual artist and activist Ai Weiwei has decided to cancel his planned retrospective at Beijing’s private Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). Primarily through social media such as his personal blogView More >

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAG|GoMA) announced in Brisbane today that it will reopen Feb 16 after a month-long hiatus caused by catastrophic floods in the state of Queensland in Australia’s northeastern region. The floods beganView More >

After a six-month hiatus, the private gallery Takahashi Collection will be reopening Feb 18 in a new location near Tokyo’s Hinode Pier, it has been announced. The gallery has traversed a good portion of central Tokyo since it was establishedView More >

Contemporary art fairs have turned up in seemingly every major metropolis across the developed world in recent years, so it was perhaps an inevitability that someone would attempt to expand the model to the Internet. Now, with the Jan 22View More >

Installation view, Art Stage Singapore, 2011. All images: Photo ART iT.   On January 12 at the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Centre in Singapore, regional collectors and art professionals had their first look at the latest fair toView More >

International curator Wonil Rhee has died following a heart attack at his home in Seoul in the early hours of January 11, it has been reported. Rhee oversaw large-scale exhibitions including the biennial Media City Seoul (in 2002 and 2006),View More >

Installation view of Ai Weiwei’s Cube Light (2008) at Misa Shin Gallery, 2010. Photo ART iT.   In recent years Tokyo has seen an influx of young galleries focusing on a new generation of Japanese artists. While certainly new, theView More >

German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been awarded the 8th Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation announced in New York on Nov 5. Established in 1996, the prize includes USD 100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum inView More >

The Serpentine Gallery has outbid two other competitors for the rights to convert a heritage-protected building in Kensington Gardens into a new gallery space, it was announced in London on Nov 1. The move will almost double the Serpentine’s currentView More >

On Oct 26 in Tokyo, the Japanese government announced that architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake are among this year’s seven inductees to the Order of Culture, and that photographer Eiko Hosoe is among this year’s 17 newView More >

Installation view of works by Morag Keil in the booth of Frankfurt’s Galerie Neue Alte Brücke at the Lafayette Sector in FIAC, Paris, 2010. Photo ART iT.   FIAC’s Lafayette Prize was awarded to artist Morag Keil, it was announcedView More >