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 will beView 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. TheView 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 >
■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. Sreenings atView 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 >