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■Event   Joan Jonas    Left Side Right Side    1972    Courtesy the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York Vital Signals (more at ART iT News: Early Japanese/US video art) resumes its Japan tour in November. SreeningsView More >

On 28 October the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) announced its exhibition lineup for 2010. The museum is organizing three major exhibitions under the umbrella theme of ‘Defining Japan’. The year will kick off with MAM’s triennial group show, Roppongi CrossingView More >

Art Tower Mito will hold an international symposium in conjunction with their Joseph Beuys exhibition opening at the end of October. Along with a lecture by the head of Hamburger Bahnhof, Eugen Blume, who has organized a major retrospective ofView More >

vDOX7iVEx6A Artist Pipilotti Rist’s first feature-length film, Pepperminta, will have its Asia premiere at the upcoming CREAM – Yokohama International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama. Pepperminta is the story of the carefree and innocent eponymous young lady who fightsView More >

The GEISAI art fair produced annually by Murakami Takashi will be held this December not in Miami, but in Taipei. The Art Newspaper http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Murakami-to-launch-Geisai-fair-in-Taiwan/19606 US hedge-fund billionaire and collector Steven A. Cohen’s fund, SAC Capital Advisors, has sold all ofView More >

© Herzog & de Meuron, visualization by Artefactorylab   The Miami Art Museum has announced the completion of design development for their new facilities scheduled to open in 2013. The Museum is designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron,View More >

  CASA BRUTUS Vol.116 (out 10 October） Feature: Basic Knowledge of Japanese Art, Architecture and Design http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/116/ Bijutsu-techo Vol.62 (out 17 October) Feature: Aesthetics of Chanoyu http://www.bijutsu.co.jp/bt/ Bijutu-no-mado November (out 20 October) Feature: Drawing the body – Artistic anatomy View More >">http://www.tomosha.com/books/mado/newest.htmlView More >

  A retrospective exhibition of work by one of Japan’s representative experimental film artists, Ito Takashi, will be held at Tokyo’s Image Forum. Ito studied under Matsumoto Toshio and his maiden work, SPACXY received international critical acclaim. This exhibition presentsView More >

From SIPF 2008  Yamada Ko  Specimen of Good-Byes series © the artist   The Singapore International Photography Festival, opening 10 October 2010, is now calling for entries for it open- and ‘Human: Nature’-themed segments (deadline 31 March 2010->11 April 2010). SIPF 2010View More >

The first of three big design events taking place currently around Tokyo kicks off today. At Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Design Touch (23 October – 3 November) focuses how design can make dreams come true, with Design Tide Tokyo 2009View More >

Fujii Hidemasa  Stain ‘Expanse’   Tokyo Midtown announced the results today for both the art and design segments of the Tokyo Midtown Award 2009. The grand prix (1 million yen) in the art competition was awarded to Fujii Hidemasa for hisView More >

  Artist Nakaya Fujiko, who creates outdoor site-specific installations using artificially generated fog, collaborates with doubleNegatives Architecture (dNA) headed by Ichkawa Sota on an installation for the courtyard of L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo. The piece establishes a dialogue between theView More >