A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt) (2012), video installation with HD video (run time 57 sec), two drawings, temporary wall. Created with University Art Galleries, University of California, Irvine. Courtesy Koki Tanaka; Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou;View More >
The co-founder of what is now one of Asia’s most successful contemporary art fairs, Art HK, is seeking to recreate the same international market magic for the Pacific region. Tim Etchells, of the British exhibitions company SME Ltd, is nowView More >
David Weiss, of the Swiss artist duo Fischli/Weiss, died Apr 27, it has been reported. He was 66 years old. Weiss began collaborating with Peter Fischli in 1979. Consistently unsettling the boundaries between amateur craft and conceptual rhetoric, together theView More >
The Architectural Institute of Japan has honored Ryue Nishizawa as one the recipients of the AIJ Prizes for 2012, it was announced Apr 11. Partner with Kazuyo Sejima in the firm SANAA, and principal of his own firm, Office ofView More >
The International Center of Photography in New York will present Daido Moriyama with a recognition for lifetime achievement at the institution’s annual Infinity Awards gala this May, it has been announced. Moriyama is the first Japanese photographer to earn theView More >
New York powerhouse gallery David Zwirner is expanding to London, it was officially announced in a press release dated Mar 13. Often compared to the multinational Gagosian Gallery and London’s White Cube in terms of commercial influence and clout, ZwirnerView More >
Yoko Ono has been awarded Austria’s highest recognition for contemporary art, it was announced at a press conference Mar 2 in Vienna. Named after the expressionist painter and playwright who lived from 1886 to 1980, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize confersView More >
Ningbo History Museum, 2003-2008, Ningbo, China. Photo Lu Hengzhong. The Hangzhou-based architect Wang Shu will be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Feb 27. Principal of the firm Amateur Architecture Studio along with his wife, Lu Wenyu, WangView More >
Sarah Sze will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Feb 24. Entitled Triple Point, her project for Venice is commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Known for site-specificView More >
One of the leading representatives of post-war photography in Japan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto passed away Feb 6 at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 90-years-old. Born in San Francisco in 1921, Ishimoto lived in Japan from the age of three beforeView More >