NHK Educational TV’s Sunday Museum will feature the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, currently underway in Niigata, on its August 30th broadcast. Titled ‘Ten years in Echigo-Tsumari: land of greenery, rice balls and art’, the festival’s general director Kitagawa Fram willView More >
Busan’s first hotel-based art fair, ARTO BUSAN 2009, launches this weekend in the Korean port city. Some 70 galleries from countries across Asia including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore are slated to exhibit. Japanese galleries include Mizuma ArtView More >
Kaikai Kiki artist Mr. has just published his first dojinshi(fanzine) and will be presenting this new offering at this summer’s Comic Market 76. Mr. will be exhibiting on day 3 of the three-day annual exhibition and spot sales event. TheView More >
Tokyo Wonder Site is seeking candidates to participate in their Exchange Residency Program, an international cultural exchange program for people working in creative fields. Candidates will be sent to cultural organizations in Barcelona, Melbourne and Taichung. One candidate working inView More >
Matt Calderwood Some Things Just Work 2004 Courtesy the artist from the current Hayward Touring exhibition Quiet Revolution Hayward Touring invites proposals for its next annual exhibition to travel to four UK galleries in 2010-11. The organizers welcome proposals fromView More >
Scene from the 2008 Festival First launched in 2008, ASYAAF 2009 is currently underway in Seoul. Participating at this, the second, staging are 777 student and emerging artists aged 30 and under primarily from Korea, but also from countries thoughtoutView More >
Shiota Chiharu Flowing Water 2009 Photo Sunhi Mang Shiota Chiharu’s solo show, Flowing Water, underway at the Nizayama Forest Art Museum in Toyama, has been extended until Wednesday 23 September. The show had originally been scheduled to close on 6View More >
Panorama 10, 2006, C-print, 65x80cm Kobe-born, London-based artist Maeda Shoko was awarded the 2009 Renaissance Arts Prize for Best Non-Italian Artist in the Photography Section by the Italian Cultural Institute London. The Prize, awarded to young artists working in theView More >
The One Piece Club (representative, Ishinabe Hiroko), a non-profit organization launched to promote the popularization of contemporary art in Japan from the standpoint of the collector, will stage an exhibition of works from the collections of its members. EstablishedView More >
The new line of footwear created by architect Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Lacoste, the fashion brand recognized by its green crocodile logo, will be released on 10 August at the Mid West boutique in Shibuya. Limited to 850 pairsView More >
Event Towada Art Center presents an evening of live Bossa Nova set against Takahashi Kyota’s Fragments of Color Cubes. The work uses the exterior of Nishizawa Ryue’s architecture for museum, completed in 2008, as a backdrop for aView More >
Tsuda NaoRera Faraway #1 2009, 80x100cm （c）Tsuda Nao, Courtesy hiromiyoshii TOKYO PHOTO 2009, Japan’s international art fair specializing in works of photography, takes place the first weekend of September in Roppongi. Featuring Japanese and international galleries seen at Europe’s largestView More >