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2008 (Nishimura gallery booth)   The second staging of the Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair will be held this year from 21-23 August at the Grand Hyatt Seoul. Sixty galleries from China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan will exhibit andView More >

The 13th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award), established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Taro Okamoto manifested in his creative practice, is open for applications. Applications accepted 15 July – 15 September 2009. TaroView More >

  Time once again for what has become a biennial Tokyo tradition: Trio the Art (artist Parco Kinoshita, art journalist Shinkawa Takashi and Contemporary Art Factory director Soga Takaaki) conduct their humor-filled briefing session on this year’s Venice Biennale. AnView More >

Wolfgang Tillmans © Henry Linser The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, with a history of more than half a century, has been awarded this year to artist Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1969 in Germany; residing in London). TheView More >

  The catalogue produced to accompany the acclaimed the British artist’s first large-scale exhibition to be held in Asia – currently underway at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art – has just been published. Along with installation views areView More >

Okamura Design Space R is an annual project in which an architect collaborates with creatives from other disciplines. For this – the seventh – staging, Sejima Kazuyo of the architectural unit SANAA presents an exhibition titled Tomei na katachi (TransparencyView More >

  Austrian artist Franz West unveils The Ego and the Id in New York’s Central Park on 15 July. Each ‘leg’ of the colorful, six-meter aluminum sculpture curves at the bottom of form a stool, inviting passersby to stop andView More >

Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs is calling for the public’s thoughts on the establishment of a national center for the media arts. Comments submitted by email, fax or post will be accepted through 13 July. The controversy surrounding the projectView More >

Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel has been selected to orchestrate the metamorphosis of the Île Seguin, an island in the Seine river in the southwest section of Paris, from an abandoned industrial site to an arts center. The islandView More >

Left: Megmento 2008, acrylic on paper, 41 x 33.5 cm Right: Ongo Me’a Mali 2008, acrylic on paper, 58 x 46 cm New Zealand artist Julian Hooper will present two talks introducing contemporary art from New Zealand and his ownView More >

Lance Armstrong bike design by Kaws Lance Armstrong and Nike join forces to produce a global art exhibition dedicated to the fight against cancer. The seven times Tour de France winner, who himself overcame cancer and returned last year toView More >

Abu Dhabi has announced the establishment of a new annual art and design event: Abu Dhabi Art. The inaugural edition will take place 19-22 November. Reference: Saatchi Online http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/abu_dhabi_announces_creation_of_major_new_annual_event_devoted_to_contemporary_art_and_design/5763