Christie’s post-war and contemporary day sale on 17 October in London realized a total of £3,514,725 from 111 lots sold. The top lot was Anselm Kiefer’s Baum mit Panzer (1977) fetching £169,250, followed by Martin Kippenberger’s Self-Portrait (1981) at £139,250View More >
Scheduled to take place in March 2010, over 50 public museums, commercial galleries, auction houses, and others will unite for the first time to celebrate the significance and diversity of the Sydney as a center of art. In addition toView More >
Zoo 2009, the young gallerists’ satellite to the Frieze Art Fair, opened today in London’s East End, with more than 50 commercial and non-commercial contemporary art organizations presenting work, and specially curated exhibitions by Rob Tufnell and others. ParticipatingView More >
ArtReview published the 2009 edition of Power 100, the magazine’s annual selection of the artworld’s most powerful figures. Topping the list this year is co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist. The highest-ranking artist on the list is BruceView More >
A one-day moviemaking workshop held at the Nogeyama Zoo as a ‘pre-event’ to the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, which opens on 31 October. Together with video artist Goto Daiki, participants will use digital cameras to shootView More >
Frieze Art Fair kicked off on 15 October in London’s Regent Park. The seventh staging of the one of the contemporary art world’s top fairs features 165 galleries from 30 countries around the world. Exhibitors from Japan are hiromiyoshii,View More >
Designer of the FINAL HOME fashion label, Tsumura Kosuke, will curate show number two at YUKA CONTEMPORARY, a new gallery launched in September 2009 in Tokyo’s Waseda district. Tsumura introduces the works of three emerging talents, among them students.View More >
Left to right: Vivienne Sato, Inui Akito, Kobata Kazue, Ozaki Tetsuya Sendai mediatheque will host a series of lectures exploring the role and the possibilities of the museum. ART iT editor-in-chief Ozaki Tetsuya plays moderator to guests working across multipleView More >
The Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss announced the short list for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize (established in 1996 and awarded biennially) on 9 October. The six finalists are Cao Fei (b. 1978, China), Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Germany), NataschaView More >
■Prize German artist Isa Genzken was awarded the 2009 Yanghyun Prize on 9 October. Launched in 2008, the Yanghyun Prize is the first international art prize established by a Korean institution. The winner is awarded a cash prize of 100View More >
■Prize Chen Chieh-jen Bade Area 2005 Super 16mm transferred to DVD Courtesy the Artist The shortlist for the fourth Artes Mundi Prize – the biennial British contemporary art award established in 2003 – was announced on 8 October.View More >
Mona Hatoum Untitled (Baalbeck Birdcage) 1999 One of the liveliest times of year in the auction world has arrived. And this year Sotheby’s (London) will present for the first time a section of Arab and Iranian Art on the 16thView More >