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  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 >

Damien Hirst Ingo, Torsten 1992 (Installation at Unfair, Cologne) Gloss household paint on wall, chairs and twins, Dimensions variable © Damien Hirst, Courtesy White Cube Artist Damien Hirst is calling for identical twins to take part in his artwork forView More >

Front and back covers of the October 2009 issue of papyrus（¥730; Gentosha） Artist Ohtake Shinro is the subject of a special feature in the October issue (now on sale) of the culture magazine papyrus. Among the special feature’s series ofView More >

Matsushima Shunsuke VOICE-PORTRAIT ~self-introduction~ http://voice-portrait.tumblr.com/   Winners of the CREAM competition staged in conjunction with the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama to open at the end of October were announced today: the CREAM Prize went to Matsushima Shunsuke’sView More >

Twenty-four artists and researchers partaking in the now underway Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 will gather in the city on 22 September for a symposium. Participants including Ou Ning, Tsubaki Noboru, Hirata Oriza, Yanobe Kenji, Yoshimi Shunya and Aqua Metropolis OsakaView More >

Chinese Malaysian artist Emil Goh died suddenly on 7 September at his apartment in Seoul. He was 43. Media sources are reporting the cause as a heart attack. As an artist, Goh was known mainly for his photo and videoView More >