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  British photographer Stephen Gill, who held his first Japanese solo show Hackney Flowers at Ebisu’s G/P gallery in February, has returned to Japan and will give a special talk. In what promises to be an enjoyable evening, the artistView More >

  Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been posting news on Twitter about head surgery he underwent at and his subsequent release from a Munich hospital. Ai had been detained, but later released, by police in August in the Sichuan cityView More >

  The Museum of Chinese in America opened its doors on 22 September at its new location on Centre Street in New York’s Chinatown district. MOCA’s new home was designed by artist and architect Maya Lin. The museum kicked offView More >

It is now more than likely that the Japanese government will review the plans for the National Center for the Media Arts (provisional name). On 22 September, Kawabata Tatsuo, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in theView More >

Complaints Choir of Helsinki  2006  Photo Petri Summanen   The Complaints Choir, an art project that turns gripes against the world into positive energy through the medium of song, is looking for participants for its Tokyo edition. Launched by Helsinki-based artists TellervoView More >

  Performa 09, the visual art performance biennial, will take place in New York City over the course of three weeks in November. The third staging of the event presents works by 150 artists including Candice Breitz, Mike Kelley, WilliamView More >

Moriyama,・Shinjuku・Araki exhibition  2005  Photo Kioku Keizo   Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery celebrated its tenth anniversary on 9 September. To mark the occasion the gallery is posting on its website an illustrated chronology of exhibitions held to date, along with messages fromView More >

  The artist famed for his sound and light-emitting works made from modified household items and appliances performs live this Sunday night at Vacant in Jingumae, The performance is a segment of ‘wrong dance, right steps’. For five days startingView More >

neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are ‘soshokukei – herbivorous artists’? The second talk event staged in conjunction with neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are ‘soshokukei – herbivorous artists’? currently underway at Takahashi Collection Hibiya. For this round the girls, popularView More >

Vintage Fox Talbot negative, c.1840-1841 © Hiroshi Sugimoto Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi   The Clematis-no-oka cultural complex in the Shizuoka prefecture city of Mishima will soon celebrate the opening of a new museum devoted to photography: the Izu Photo Museum. LocatedView More >

  For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke. For this session ART iT’s editor-in-chief has asked his guest – who in addition to maintaining a design practice that includes his own label,View More >

  Thursday 9 September marked the launch of the iida Digital Contents Gallery, a collection of downloadable artworks created by Japanese and international artists and designers for au’s iida-brand mobile phone. Round one features works by the six artists/units Enlightenment,View More >