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     A detailed guide to some 90 artist-residency programs throughout the world together with artworks and comments – including why they applied and the significance of the experience – by more than 100 artists who have attended them. The bookView More >

■Event Bijutsuken (INU) is a rather loosely active body of artists and critics orgainzed to think about art and its doctrines. For their fourth event they’ve planned a symposium titled ‘Art/Society/Revolution’, a realistic exchange among the panelists touching upon aView More >

  The fifth in a series of symposia co-organized by the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo and the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. In this round the French philosopherView More >

Kimura Taiyo Routine (Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart) 1998 Photo: Frank Kleinbach   The facility that each year hosts a large-scale solo show by a Japanese contemporary artist – to date having featured the likes of Shiota Chiharu and Koganezawa Takehito –View More >

  Kusama Yayoi presents Polka Dot Galaxy Audi, the artist’s collaboration with the German car manufacturer at their showroom, Audi Forum Tokyo. Kusama covered a white Audi R8 in red polka dots to celebrate the centennial of the company’s launch.View More >

  Tokyo Wonder Site is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its annual Wonder Seeds exhibition. Launched in 2003, the program is designed to support young artists by providing a platform for showing and selling their works. EntryView More >

Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari have announced the lineup for the Whitney Museum’s next biennial survey of art in America today. Their 2010 edition (25 February – 30 May) will feature 55 artists (compared to 81 in ’08) rangingView More >

Kusama Yayoi  Dots Obsession 2008  Installation at LA VILLETTE, Paris   The first Aichi Triennale slated to open summer 2010 has announced elements of the festival that are now official. A press conference held 4 December revealed the Triennale’s aim to presentView More >

An exhibition by students from 13 art universities running through Sunday at the Artcomplex Center of Tokyo in Yotsuya. The six! features the award-winning works from the art festivals held at each university and the shortlisted artworks from a web-basedView More >

Thomas Hoving, the former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of numerous artworld-related books including Masterpiece and Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on 10 December from cancer at 78. HovingView More >

Onimusume 1 by Utatane Hiroyuki （1994） © Utatane Hiroyuki / Comic House ©KAIYODO Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.   Bome, the modeler known primarily from his work on Murakami Takashi’s Project KO2 series of figure sculptures, 
opens his own soloView More >

Sarah McCrory appointed as curator of Frieze Projects (Art Review） http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1474022%3ABlogPost%3A924605 Steve McQueen directs Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. (Artforum） http://www.artforum.com/news/#news24370 New Prize Created by Victor Pinchuk Honors ArtistsView More >