Event Photo: Suzuki Yoshio From photographic works to sculpture, and with the opening of the IZU PHOTO MUSEUM (2009, Mishima), to architectural and garden design… Sugimoto Hiroshi forges on with his sweeping creative practice. Deputy editor of BRUTUS,View More >
Exhibition The sixth edition in BankArt’s Food and contemporary art series is structured around the idea of a ‘full course’ tour of the city. Visitors stroll the streets of Yokohama sampling projects by 11 artists/units including Kimura TakahitoView More >
Event Tonight (Saturday 27 March) Tokyo’s Roppongi district holds its annual art all-nighter. Among the host of events, artist Tsubaki Noboru will unveil a new work and performance and the French performance troupe Compagnie des Quidams will takeView More >
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series © Tate Tate Modern has invited the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a site-specific work for the gallery’s Turbine Hall, a space 35 meters in height and 152 metersView More >
4O0OqdIoOPQ The new multi-use Rolex Learning Center is located on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, which overlooks Lake Geneva and the Alps. Open to the public as well as students, it will act as a hubView More >
Event Handa Masanori study 2010 © Masanori Handa The last installment of curator Amano Kazuo’s yearlong exhibition series Metamorphosis: Objects Today underway at gallery αM features an installation by Handa Masanori covering the gallery walls in materials used asView More >
Auction Christie’s First Open Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 11 March realized a total of $7,552,900 from 146 (of 168) lots sold. The top lot was Wayne Thiebaud’s Valley River (1995, oil on canvas) fetching $842,500 (est. $200-300,000), followedView More >
Award Image from GROUND © Cozue Takagi, Courtesy TARO NASU The 35th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award, considered the Akutagawa Prize (for new writers of serious fiction) of the photography world, has been awarded this year to TakagiView More >
MAD (Making Art Different) is a series of courses that respond inquisitively to diverse aspects of contemporary art launched in 2001 by the non-profit organization of arts coordinators and curators AIT (Arts Initiative Tokyo). The tenth school year beginningView More >
Exhibition & event Marking the publication of his second photo-collection, mind encode, photographer Nagare Satoshi will hold a solo show of the same title in Kanazawa. Born in 1975 and based in Tokyo, Nagare captures the workings andView More >
Auction Sotheby’s Contemporary art auction held 9 March in New York realized a total of US$5,847,378. The top lot was Andy Warhol’s Self Defense (1985-1986) fetching $506,500 (est. $250-350,000), followed by Robert Motherwell’s Open #94 (1969) at $224,500 (est. $100-150,000).View More >
Event For the final round of his talk-session series, ART iT editor-in-chief Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes artist Nakamura Masato. Head of the artists’ initiative Command N since 1997, Nakamura’s creative practice has consistently explored the relationships between ‘art and society’ andView More >