Biennale Ydessa Hendeles Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) 2002 Courtesy the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation The Eighth Gwangju Biennale will be held 3 September – 7 November, based on the theme ‘10,000 Lives’. Under the directorship of Massimiliano Gioni, hailingView More >
Prize Debbie Han Seated Three Graces Korean artist Debbie Han was the winner of the 2009 Sovereign Asian Art Prize for her photographic work Seated Three Graces. By combining the nude bodies of real, contemporary Asian women with idealized Western classicalView More >
Event Four days of submersion in an event that aims to ‘bring art back within reach and strip [it] bare’. Held on the second floor of a Tokyo sento, plans call for exhibits and sale of works, performances, and talkView More >
Event For the next round of his talk-session series, ART iT editor-in-chief Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes artist Tsubaki Noboru. Currently head of the Space Design Course at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Tsubaki has consistently explored the relationship between artView More >
Biennial Features of the 17th Biennale of Sydney were announced last week by artistic director David Elliott. Based on the curatorial theme ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, the former founding director of the MoriView More >
As a special event connected to its Medicine and Art exhibition, the Mori Art Museum is hosting a blood drive in cooperation with the Japanese Red Cross. Today and tomorrow, a special area of the gallery will be designated forView More >
Auction Sotheby’s contemporary-art evening sale in London on 10 February soared past its pre-sale estimates of £32-45 million to deliver total sales of £54,074,450. Forty-seven of the 77 lots on offer were from the Austrian-based Sammlung Lenz Schönberg collection assembledView More >
Award Mitsuya Toshihiko The indignant, 13th Taro Award winning work The winners of 13th Taro Award – established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Okamoto Taro manifested in his creative practice – have been announced. Twenty-two works fromView More >
Exhibition The first of a series of graduation shows by students of Oil & Japanese Painting at Tama Art University Kamonoge opens Tuesday 9 February. The department is characterized in its quest to foster new forms of expression in theView More >
Kobe Art Village Center launched its annual ‘1floor’ project in 2008 with the aim of supporting young artists and curators by allowing them use the KAVC gallery and 1room community space – in other words, an entire floor – toView More >