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Event The art fair produced by Murakami Takashi in which young artists present their own work on an individual basis, last year saw its first staging in Taiwan. Back in Tokyo this year, the organizers have just announced that artView More >

Event bjxqdV1pxhA The Khoomei singer and multitalented artist – as evidenced by his installation at the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama and appearance in 4.48 psicosis at the Festival/Tokyo 09 Autumn program – will premiere his new BlackView More >

An impromptu art auction organized to aid relief efforts following the devastating earthquake Haiti on 12 January. Art for Haiti will take place in the form of a silent auction tomorrow evening in Los Angeles. All funds raised will beView More >

Shirin Neshat Women Without Men 2009   The second staging of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions will take place this February. Taking ‘Searching Songs’ as its theme and striving to share and debate visions of newView More >

Exhibition   Christian Boltanski Personnes 2010 The Grand Palais, Paris   The third edition of MONUMENTA, in which a leading international contemporary artist is invited to create a new site-specific work for the 13,500 m² Nave of the Grand PalaisView More >

　   Left: Ginka; right: High Fashion   Bunka Publishing Bureau has announced it will cease publishing the magazines Ginka and High Fashion as of February. Ginka, a quarterly taking the aesthetics of traditional Japanese living including ceramics and textilesView More >

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) has appointed New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as the museum’s new director. He begins his tenure on 1 June. Deitch has a 30-year career as an independent curator who has organized noteworthyView More >

Exhibition   Photo: Nagare Satoshi   The dates for Murakami Takashi’s solo exhibition at the Palace of Versailles this autumn are set: the show will run for three months from 12 September to 12 December. The artist’s first solo showView More >

– Christian Boltanski to represent France at the 2011 Venice Biennale (Le Matin) http://www.lematin.ch/flash-info/loisirs/christian-boltanski-representera-france-biennale-venise-2011 – North Korea’s latest export: Fine art（CNN） http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/24/north.korea.art/ – Guard arrested in theft of Degas painting from the Cantini Museum (AHN) http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017405331?Guard%20Arrested%20In%20Theft%20Of%20Degas%20Painting%20From%20Paris%20Museum

Exhibition Yokoo Tadanori opens a solo show this weekend at Six, the exhibit space run by the fashion label Comme des Garçons, in Osaka. The show features works from Yokoo’s Pink Girl series, a series the artist has worked onView More >

Art Fair The 22nd edition of the art fair launched in 1988 kicks off on 13 January. With 100 plus galleries participating annually, the booths alone provide a chance to see works by more than 1000 artists ranging from theView More >

Event   Photos Tatsuki Masaru   The February 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will see the Japanese luge team vie for the first time on new-model sleds developed collaboratively by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of TokyoView More >