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Round 3 of the ‘I love Art – Art & Capitalism: Art Lovers’ Mixer’, a place to meet other art enthusiasts both male and female and for art fans to meet gallerists, takes place once again courtesy Civic Art, theView More >

Japanese and international dancers and choreographers converge in Aoyama on 18 September for the launch of Dance Triennale Tokyo 2009. As a related event, Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder joins dance critic Norikoshi Takao for a talk at Aoyama Book CenterView More >

Art Triangle Vol.1, a simultaneously staged dance, film and art event, is currently underway at Kobe Art Village Center (KAVC). As one of the three events, artist Takagi Masakatsu’s film documenting the Tai Rei Tei Rio project Aruongaku and hisView More >

India Art Summit published results from second annual staging which took place in late August. Over the course of its four days, the international art fair saw some 40,000 visitors, with participating galleries making sales of approximately 260 million IndianView More >

©la Biennale di Venezia Iran-born artist Shirin Neshat was awarded the the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival for her first feature Women Without Men (Germany, Austria, France). The score for the film wasView More >

A discussion and performance to commemorate 100 years since the publication of ‘The Futurist Manifesto’ by FT Marinetti, the Italian poet, writer and commentator. The event is being produced by the Milan-based writer, commentator and director, Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, andView More >

Photo Yanobe Kenji (Team PJ) Artist Yanaobe Kenji will personally conduct a series of boat tours with his newest work, Lucky Dragon, created for the Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 festival currently underway in the city. Yanobe and guests will boardView More >

Lola, born on 9.11 2009 Italian artist Stefano Cagol launches today a simultaneous installation in different locations across Europe taking September 11 as its theme. The date referred to as 9.11 since the terrorist attacks is also incidentally the artist’sView More >

Artist Morimura Yasumasa will hold an open shooting of a scene for his new film in the making, ‘Flag on the battlefield’ (provisional title). The artist is seeking an ‘audience’ for a piano concert he gives during the scene dressedView More >

Art journalist Shinkawa Takashi joins his kaleidoscope-craftsman father, Shinkawa Yasuo, for a father-son talk of ‘another color’. According the brief, the senior craftsman’s talk, geared towards practicing and budding artists, will expound on the tricks of making and selling thingsView More >

This year’s Shanghai art fair, ShContemporary 09, kicked off today under the new directorship of Edinburgh-born, Beijing-raised artist and curator Colin Chinnery. One of the anticipated highlights of the fair is the DISCOVERIES: Discovering Contemporary exhibition co-curated by Kataoka MamiView More >

m-flo TRIBUTE ~maison de m-flo~ (rhythm zone / ¥2,100) ©2009 Takano Aya / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Kaikai Kiki artist Takano Aya joins m-flo in celebrating the group’s tenth anniversary by creating the artwork for their commemorativeView More >