The Art Newspaper‘s annual survey of museum attendance figures shows four Japanese exhibitions crowning the 2009 list for average visitors per day. Regarding the blockbuster status of exhibitions featuring Japan’s historical treasures, the paper notes that not only the artisticView More >
Auction Sotheby’s Contemporary Asian Art sale held in Hong Kong on 5 April ended on positive ground, suggesting recovery in the Asian art market. The sale exceeded the high end of its pre-sale estimate by almost HK$20 million, realizing aView More >
Kyoto Art Center is calling for exhibition proposals from curators and artists for its new Exhibition Draft 2011 project. The two-stage review process involves an initial screening of application materials by judges Hasegawa Yuko (Chief Curator, Museum of ContemporaryView More >
The new Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo opened its doors this week on 6 April. Housed in the former Mitsubishi Ichigokan, which was originally built in 1894 as the first office building in the Marunouchi area, the building underwent over twoView More >
Book The first published collection of works by the artist unit known for their controversial projects such as SUPER RAT (2006) and Making Hiroshima’s Sky Pika (2009). The book documents photographically the unit’s activities since their debut inView More >
A Fragmentary Anatomy of Every Setting Sun 2010 Polyurethane panel, acrylic paint, mirror, LED Photo Kioku Keizo A new work by the driving force of the Korean contemporary art, Lee Bul, has been permanently installed at the Hara MuseumView More >
Koenji-based Mujin-to Production has relocated to a new space near Kiyosumi-shirakawa station. Mujin-to has been proactive since its launch in 2006 not only in organizing shows by gallery artists, which include Chim↑Pom and Kazama Sachiko, but also in producing DVDs,View More >
Biennale François Morellet Lamentable 2006 Courtesy the artist and Galerie m Bochum The world’s first biennale devoted to light art launched last week in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia. Set in 60 private living/working spaces scattered aroundView More >
Exhibition An exhibition featuring the works of 63 outsider artists from Japan is showing through the end of the year at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris. Art Brut Japonais was organized in cooperation with the Borderless MuseumView More >
Award Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima Photo Takashi Okamoto Courtesy SANAA Sejima Kazuyo and Nishizawa Ryue, the duo of Japanese architects who work together under the name SANAA, have been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, an honor oftenView More >
Art fair Art Fair Tokyo 2009 Photo: Iwashita Munetoshi Japan’s top art fair, Art Fair Tokyo, kicks off its 2010 edition on 2 April at Tokyo International Forum. Launched in 2005, participating galleries this year at the Fair’s fifthView More >
Event Yamamoto Motoi Labyrinth 2010 Salt 17.3 x 13m Installation at MOT Annual 2010, Courtesy the artist As a closing event to the MOT Annual 2010: Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is inviting 100View More >