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■Event In conjunction with his solo show underway at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Kitajima Keizo welcomes a host of guests in a series of three talks. For the first he chats with the director of the documentary filmView More >

  A collection of some 400 photographs culled from 40 photobooks by key Japanese photographers of the 1960s and 70s including Moriyama Daido, Araki Nobuyoshi, Ishiuchi Miyako, Nakahira Takuma, Shinoyama Kishin and Tomatsu Shomei. Published by Aperture, New York, outView More >

Drawing for Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (LRTT), 2007 Following his participation in the Museum’s Artist-In-Residence program, Japanese artist Shinoda Taro has a solo show scheduled to open the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in November. The artist will present his LunarView More >

■Exhibtion   Shiman – Akari More than 100 artists have descended on the Gunma prefecture town of Nakanojo, an area otherwise known for its Shima and Sawatari hot springs, to stage the second Nakaonojo Biennale. Evenings during the festival bringView More >

■Event   Christian Philipp Müller Photo Thomas Eugster © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2009 Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt art center marks its 20th anniversary with a month of celebratory events. The festivities kick off with a lectureView More >

Intertraveller: People Playing with the Dead Intertraveller: People Playing with the Dead, the catalogue produced in conjunction with Konoike Tomoko’s critically acclaimed solo show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, will be released on 9 September, the Gallery’s tenthView More >

  The managers for musicians and actors; producers for film, stage, and television; masterminds behind bringing foreign stage productions to Japan; and operators of the ArtJam Contemporary gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo … Amuse are calling for entries to their annualView More >

  Shiriagari Kotobuki returns to his hometown of Shizuoka as guest curator and artist where he is joined by fellow manga artists Tanaka Katsuki, Amahisa Masakazu, Kawai Katsuo and Nagao Kenichiro. In an experiment expanding the possibilities of manga toView More >

© Morimura Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa’s solo show Maburakashi opens today at Epsite in Shinjuku. The title is a word coined by the artist from the Japanese words mabusu (to cover, smear or sprinkle) and mazekoze ni suru (to mix upView More >

From left: Azuma Makoto, Nawa Kohei, Ninagawa Mika +81Creatives, an outshoot of the design magazine +81, will bring together art directors and creatives working in Japan and abroad to take part in a three-day powwow. Among the scheduled events areView More >

The second seminar staged in conjunction with Exposition of Mythology – Electronic Technology currently underway (through 4 October) at the Nam June Paik Art Center. The exhibition poses diverse translations of the enormous effect of Paik’s first solo show ExpositionView More >

(left to right) Paint Splash (out August), Gingham (out September), Numbers (out October)   Handbag brand LeSportsac has added to its ‘Artist In Residence’ line of handbags created in collaboration with artists a series by New York-based Japanese artist MatsuyamaView More >