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Photo: Liad Baniel The Miami Beach art fairs – Art Basel Miami Beach, Scope, Pulse, and Art Asia – closed their 2009 editions on 6 December well attended. Art Basel, with more than 250 participating galleries, saw 42,000 visitors. Scope,View More >

■Exhibition Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project   2009    Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 2009, 4:30pm; 60 seconds Explosion area approximately 18.3 x 26.1 meters Gunpowder fuse, metal net for gunpowder fuse, scaffolding Photo Ihara Hiro   Courtesy Cai Studio At sunsetView More >

■Event 　 Left: Kim Sunjung   Right: Azuma Hiroki Photo: Lee Seungmoo The Mori Art Museum is taking bookings for the last two lectures in its ten-part series exploring relations between art and society around the three themes of art, businessView More >

Pompidou Center reopens on 17 December for the first time since 23 November (New York Times) http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/pompidou-center-reopens/ Sotheby’s, Christie’s contemporary-art sales totals drop 75%. (Bloomberg) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aAMthW5Uj.h4 British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East. (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/British-Museum-and-Tate-expand-focus-on-Middle-East/19848

■Award The International Association of Art Critics, United States section has announced its annual selection of award-winning US shows and performances for 2009. Among this year’s contemporary offerings the AICA/USA Award for Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally went to WilliamView More >

     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 philosopher whoView 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 – opensView 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. AlongView More >