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Thirty of the 40 lots offered in Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art evening sale held 29 June in London found buyers, realizing £5,101,350 – just short of the £5.34 million low estimate. The evening’s top lot was Ed Ruscha’s ThatView More >

Ann Goldstein Photo Michael Powers After 25 years at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, Senior Curator Ann Goldstein will relocate to Amsterdam in January 2010 to assume the post of General Artistic Director of the StedelijkView More >

Christie’s post-war and contemporary day sale on July 1 in London realised a total of £9,322,275. The top lot was Suh Do-ho’s Some/One (2004) fetching £493,250 (est £200-300,000). Other works by Asian artists topping their pre-sale estimates include Kusama Yayoi’sView More >

  With the summer holidays fast approaching and parents with children in mind, Yanobe Kenji is staging five video programs to coincide with his solo show, Giant Torayan’s Great Adventure, currently underway at BLD Gallery in Ginza. Each program isView More >

Leading young Japanese artist Nawa Kohei faces off with ART iT’s own editor-in-chief, Ozaki Tetsuya, in an attempt to answer the question ‘What is Japanese art?’ CREATIVE SEMINAR DAY STUDIO★100 Monday 20 July 14：00-16：00　(30 seats) Vantan Shibuya Directors Studio Details/bookingsView More >

Humphrey Ocean tutoring Life Class: Today’s Nude UK Channel 4 presents a series of five half-hour life drawing classes on daytime TV. Conceived by artist Alan Kane as an extension of his art practice, Life Class: Today’s Nude is commissionedView More >

Pioneering choreographer Pina Bausch (born 27 July 1940, in Solingen, Germany) died Tuesday 30 June, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. She was 68. Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal http://www.pina-bausch.de/news.htm

NHK Educational TV’s Sunday Museum spotlights artist Yanagi Miwa in the feature segment of its 26 July broadcast. The artist herself will appear as a guest, delving into the subject of ‘the maturing image of women’. The previous week’s broadcastView More >

With an exhibition of autographs he ‘signed’ while possessed by the spirits of 300 different celebrities well underway, Ukawa Naohiro next ventures to invite prankster art unit Chim↑Pom and famed interviewer Yoshida Ko to join him in a powwow. NowView More >

The Nezu Museum, renowned for its collection of Japanese and Eastern art, will reopen on 7 October. The Museum has undergone a three-year-long renovation project that includes construction of a new building designed by architect Kuma Kengo. Nezu Museum (Minami-aoyama)View More >

What can art do for children in developing countries? Students under the tutelage of artist Miyajima Tatsuo at Tohoku University of Art and Design and Kyoto University of Art and Design present the results of their workshop with AIDS orphansView More >

  Odani Motohiko joins Saki Naoki (waterdesignscope) for the 26th round of his podcast series of dialogues with top creatives, SAKAI PODCASTS 2.0. The open recording session takes place tomorrow at the Apple Store Ginza. Thursday 2 July 2009 19:00View More >