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The new year saw the launch of the new art space ‘island’, and 30 January marked the opening of their first exhibition, New World. Island is operated by former magical, ARTROOM director and staff Ito Haruka and Yuki Kayoko, artistView More >

Award The 2010 Ordway Prize recognizing the contributions of a curator and artist whose work has had a significant impact on the field of contemporary art was awarded to American curator Hamza Walker and Polish artist Artur Zmijewski. Cosponsored byView More >

Auction Alberto Giacometti’s bronze L’Homme Qui Marche I (1961) sold for a shattering £65,001,250 (pre-sale estimate £12–18 million) to an anonymous telephone bidder in the Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 February, setting a world auctionView More >

Book & event The artist unit Ikeda Midori, consisting of photographer Ikeda Masanori and artist Mitamura Midori, have published a photo-collection bearing their collective name. Formed in 2007, the unit made its emerging artist debut in Europe in 2008 atView More >

Award The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its Biennale for Young Artists. Entry is open to artists 30 years of age and younger and artworks of all genres. Forming this year’sView More >

Event A symposium organized to examine the current state of architectural archiving in Japan and possible courses of action for the future. The program includes a keynote talk by top architectural archivist, Irena Murray (Banister Fletcher Director, British Architectural Library,View More >

Art fair Art fairs staged in the guest rooms of hotels, where visitors can view art in a quasi-residential setting, have become increasingly popular over the past several years. The Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, first held in 2008View More >

– Internationally Acclaimed Artist Jeff Koons to Create BMW Art Car (Artdaily) http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36030 – Art Miami Announces February Fair for 2011 (ART INFO) http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33782/art-miami-announces-february-fair-for-2011/ – 54th Venice Biennale artists: Iceland chooses Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson (The Art Newspaper) View More >">http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/First-announcements-for-2011-Venice-Biennale/20090View More >

Event Nobuyoshi Araki and Katsura Funakoshi: An Image of Love Supreme, currently underway at the Takahashi Collection Hibiya, brings together under one roof photographs from Araki’s recent Mother and Child series (2008-09) and sculpture from Funakoshi’s hermaphroditic sphinx series. InView More >

Exhibition With Toyota Municipal Museum of Art curator Amano Kazuo’s yearlong series of exhibitions drawing to a close in March, GalleryαM has announced its next exhibition program. Starting April 2010, curators Takahashi Mizuki (Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito ),View More >