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The Suntory Museum Tempozan in Osaka has announced it will be closing its doors at the end December 2010. Suntory Holdings Limited, which operates the Museum, will merge with the Suntory Music Foundation on 1 September 2009, to become theView More >

Event Yanobe Kenji Lucky Dragon (study drawing)　2009　(c) Yanobe Kenji Art boat designed to cruise area waterways An event staged to symbolize Osaka’s revitalization as a city of water, Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 kicked off today. Among an extensive program ofView More >

Art House Project Ishibashi, Photo Watanabe Osamu Nihonga artist Senju Hiroshi has complete his new work for the Benesse Art Site Naoshima Art House Project, a series of permanent installations in which artists transform vacant houses on the island intoView More >

Xijing Men (l to r: Chen Shaoxiong, Ozawa Tsuyoshi and Gimhongsok) There was a northern capital (Beijing), a southern capital (Nanjing) and an eastern capital (Tokyo), but no western capital (Xijing)…until the Xijing Men (Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Chen Shaoxiong and Gimhongsok)View More >

Lim Jihye the black buffalo #2 Mezzotint Korean artist Lim Jihye is the grand prizewinner of the international printmaking competition staged to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of mezzotint artist Hamaguchi Yozo. Japanese artist Kobayashi Misako took secondView More >

LOAPS Art Room, offering classes to a wide range of people from children to budding artists, is now operating in Tokyo. Assuming the roles of directors and special instructors are art critic Ichihara Kentaro, artist Hiro Sugiyama, and gallerist YoshiiView More >

A driving force in the Yogyakarta art scene, Cemeti Art House will close from August through November, while it revises the direction of its activities. Future not-for-profit activities will focus on their new Art Practice and Society projects from variousView More >

■Exhibition The Agency of Cultural Affairs-sponsored media arts festival will join Europe’s largest media arts festival, Ars Electronica, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, by holding the Japan Media Arts Festival in Linz. The two festivals will take place concurrently,View More >

Editors’ picks (13-19 August) Review: Martin Creed @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_exrev_e Video: Mark Borthwick https://www.art-it.asia/fpage/?OP=mov Snapshots: Big in Japan @ Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_expht_e/FfpQMb6Z5qzmTjdAkyP3/ News: Ai Weiwei detained inView More >

■Event Shimura Nobuhiro translate 2007 Photo Taniguchi Urara Held for the first time last year in Yokohama’s former red-light district as an attempt at ‘revitalizing the area through art’, the Koganecho Bazaar will take place again this autumn. Taking ‘walkingView More >

For the second time this month, galleries and other venues in the city of Kawaguchi, where one in every 25 residents is from overseas and many from other Asian countries, join forces in staging the Kawaguchi Asian Art Project. TheView More >

September 2009 will mark the first staging of a new annual international arts festival, flux-s, in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Visual arts, performance art, music, architecture, literature, and more will take to the buildings and streets of the formerView More >