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Photo: Anthony Browell   Australian curator Nick Waterlow was found dead on 9 November. He was 68 years of age. Mr. Waterlow was director of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at the College of Fine Arts at the University of NewView More >

Architect Sejima Kazuyo has been appointed as Artistic Director of the 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition taking place in 2010. At past stagings of the festival, Sejima was responsible for exhibit design of the Japanese Pavilion in 2000 andView More >

Photo Bengt Wanselius (left), Teshigawara Saburo(right)   Dancer Sato Rihoko, who gave a dazzling performance at the 2008 Yokohama Art Triennale on a field of broken glass in Teshigawara Saburo’s Fragments of Time, will appear in the Teshigawara-directed solo performanceView More >

The One Piece Club, a non-profit group of art lovers who pledge to buy at least one work a year, will sponsor a pair of a one-day bus tours stopping at more than 20 contemporary art galleries around Tokyo. MembersView More >

Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe ¥2,940 / Text in Japanese and English / Seigensha Art Publishing   Yanagi Miwa’s Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe, created this year for the Japanese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has beenView More >

Sumitomo Fumihiko, director of the CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, issued an ‘urgent comment from the director’ on CHANNEL CREAM regarding artist Fujihata Masaki’s withdrawal of his work from the festival. In his 25-minute webcast SumitomoView More >

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist and thinker considered the father of structural anthropology, died on 30 October at the age of 100. His great many books including The Elementary Structures of Kinship, A World on the Wane and TheView More >

Photographer Kuge Yasuhide’s collection of photographs shot during his visits to artists’ studios, Atelier, has been published. The photo book documents the workplaces of 16 of Japan’s top contemporary artists including Aida Makoto, Kusama Yayoi, Arakawa Shusaku, Kawamata Tadashi, MurakamiView More >

  Miyajima typically uses LED digital counters, numbers flashing in darkness, to express life, death, and reincarnation. That visionary world will set the stage for a new work by the London Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer Wayne McGregor. The ballet willView More >

Yoshida Shinnosuke In a Sea of Trees 2009 Oil on canvas 145.5×145.5cm　   The winners of this year’s Shell Art Award, established in 1956 by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. with the aim of discovering promising young contemporary artists, are official.View More >

A press conference for the CREAM – International Festival for Arts and Media 2009 that will commence on 31 October was held on 30 October at the Shinko Pier, one of the venues for the Festival. At the press conference,View More >

Christie’s Dubai Modern and Contemporary Art sale on 27 October realized a total of $6,736,475 from 118 lots sold. The top lot was the 1943-born Egyptian artist Ahmed Moustafa’s Remembrance and Gratitude (2009), which sold for $662,500, setting a worldView More >