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Miyake Shintaro’s drawing performance at opening night   No Man’s Land is an art event staged at the French Embassy in Tokyo’s Hiroo district in which 74 French and Japanese artists make use of the entire compound – offices, courtyardView More >

The 53rd International Art Exhibition closed its gates on 22 November. Opening on 7 June with a record 77 national participations, during its 24 weeks running the biennale welcomed a record 375,705 visitors (an average of 2,223 per day), markingView More >

Koike Kazuko  Photo Tomita Satomi   For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes creative director Koike Kazuko. With the launching and running of Japan’s first alternative space, the Saga-cho Exhibit Space, she helped built the foundation forView More >

Hirano Jiro  12 billion light years Installation view at Art Tower Mito, 2001   Sendai Art Walk is a multi-event biennial launched in 2005 with the aim of promoting the visual arts. On the roster this year are exhibitions of worksView More >

Book     Photographer Ishikawa Naoki will hold a talk and booksigning to mark the publication of Archipelago, a collection of photos from his travels to Japan’s northern and southern islands that question what is Japan, what is a nationalView More >

■Event   See Bach See #7 ©Tsuda Nao    Courtesy hiromiyoshii   Since 2008, BEAMS has been expanding on their BEAMING ARTS project as a vehicle for bridging the everyday realm of fashion and the otherworldly realm of art. ThisView More >

French artist Jeanne-Claude died on 18 November due to complications of a brain aneurysm. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude had been collaborating with her husband Christo since they made their first work together in Cologne in 1961. They worked under Christo’sView More >

  In On the Trail of the Wolves, Konoike Tomoko documents from preparation to completion the making of her solo show Inter Traveler Twelve Wolf Poets, which travelled from the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and is now showing atView More >

A two-day international symposium on ‘sound recording’. The conference will take up as its primary themes sound design, not as a by-product of music and cinema, but as a medium in its own right, and archiving recordings from the pastView More >

Deutsche Bank has made a five-year commitment to acting as the lead sponsor of the Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK). The third edition of Asia’s increasingly popular modern and contemporary art fair is scheduled for 27 – 30View More >

© Karijn Kakebeeke Khadija’s Dream 2006 Courtesy The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubaï   The 2009 BMW – Paris Photo Prize, reserved for artists represented by galleries participating in the eponymous international photography trade fair opening today, was awarded to theView More >

■Event   Dinh Q. Le   South China Sea Pishkun   2009   Digital animation still Courtesy the artist and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) On the Agenda of the Arts is a series of projects sponsored by Tokyo Wonder Site andView More >