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Sculptor Martin Boyce has won the Turner Prize, it was announced Dec 5. Boyce is the third artist from Glasgow in as many years to take home Britain’s top recognition for contemporary art after Richard Wright in 2009 and SusanView More >

A Polish-led international joint cultural initiative has installed a mix of European and local galleries in unused office spaces in Tokyo’s Kyobashi neighborhood. Conceived as an antidote to the commercially driven international art fair model, Villa Tokyo opened to theView More >

Dan Cameron has announced he is resigning as director of Prospect New Orleans, the international biennial he launched in 2008. Cameron’s announcement coincided with the Oct 22 opening ceremony of Prospect’s second edition, which had been delayed a year dueView More >

Lorraine O’Grady – Art Is. . . (Troup Front) (1983/2009), digital C-print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. After financial uncertainty necessitated a year’s delay, the second edition of the New Orleans international contemporary art biennialView More >

Ai Weiwei – Installation view of Divina Proportione (2010) at Lisson Gallery booth. All images: Photo ART iT. Amid anxiety over Greece’s debt crisis and its potential repercussions for the eurozone, the 2011 edition of the Frieze Art Fair officiallyView More >

Rendering for proposed renovation of the Polytechnical Museum, Moscow. Courtesy junya.ishigami+associates. Emerging Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been selected to lead the renovation of Moscow’s Polytechnical Museum, it was announced Oct 14. Ishigami’s proposal includes expanding the museum’s exhibition spaceView More >

Installation view of Work (Eau) (1956/2010) in “Il gruppo Gutai,” Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, 2010-11. Photo ART iT. The abstract painter and former member of the seminal Gutai group of postwar avant-garde artists, Sadamasa Motonaga, died Oct 3 at hospitalView More >

The curator and director of Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum, Charles Esche, is one of two laureates for the European Cultural Foundation’s Routes Princess Margriet Award, it was announced Oct 13. Named in honor of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, who wasView More >

In advance of London’s Frieze Art Fair, local powerhouse gallery White Cube has unveiled a massive new institutional-scale venue on Bermondsey Street, proximal to Tate Modern and the Design Museum. Complementing already existing sites in Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard,View More >

Ugo Rondinone Our Magic Hour As reported earlier by ART iT, Japan Edition, the fourth Yokohama Triennale opened on Aug 6. The main venues are the Yokohama Museum of Art and BankART Studio NYK (also known as the NYK WaterfrontView More >