Utrecht booksellers and Paperback magazine launch ZINE’S MATE – TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2009, the first book fair specializing in artist’s publications to be held in Japan. The fair and related exhibitions take place for three days from 10 ?12View More >
Japan’s top media arts festival ? from which the grand prize winning work of last year’s animation division, Tsumiki no ie by Kato Kunio, went on to win the Academy Award for animated short film – will begin acceptingView More >
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is calling for a boycott of Internet use in protest to a government plan to fit all computers sold in the country with software designed to block ‘unhealthy’ websites. In a posting on Twitter on JuneView More >
(c)Frederik Heyman Orgy of Tolerance by the artist, stage director, choreographer, playwright and poet Jan Fabre is playing in Japan at the Sai-no-Kuni Saitama Arts Theater. Following a major solo show in 2008 at the Louvre and his much-talked-aboutView More >
For the second year in a row, Volvo Cars Japan invites artists and designers in Japan to submit their works – inspired by the theme ‘Interpretations of Modern Scandinavian Design’ – to the Volvo Art & Design Competition. Mori ArtView More >
Sugimoto Hiroshi Model for Go’o Shrine Appropriate Proportion, 2003 (Gallery Koyanagi) © Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi Architectural models and drawings by some of the most sought-after Japanese architects working today will be shown concurrently at six leadingView More >
Fukuda Ryuro Infinite Islands 12 2006 The Dojima River Forum in Osaka launches a contemporary art biennial this summer with Nanjo Fumio (Director of the Mori Art Museum) at the helm as art director and Kubota Kenji as curator. TheView More >
Beijing’s gallery-filled 798 or Dashanzi Art District will stage its first biennale late this summer. Eight curators working under Art Map editor and critic Zhu Qi (China) as artistic director and Marc Hungerbühler (Switzerland/USA) as curatorial director have selected overView More >
The new documentary film Aruongaku (directed by Tomihisa Takashi), focusing on Takagi Masakatsu and two of his concerts, will screen together with Takagi’s own works on film, Homicevalo and NIHITI, from 7.4-24 at Shibuya Eurospace, thereafter touring nationwide. EurospaceView More >
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ZENSHI Gallery has relocated to a new space in Kanda-Iwamotocho, a convenient five-minute’s walk from both Kanda and Akihabara stations. The gallery reopens on Friday 26 June with The King is Here, a solo show by Tada Tomomitsu. ZENSHI View More >">http://www.zenshi.com/View More >
The Guggenheim Museum has announced the launch the Guggenheim Forum, a new series of online discussions among experts from a variety of fields that will occur in conjunction with major Guggenheim exhibitions. Each Forum will span two weeks, withView More >