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7.18 – 8.29 Kodama Gallery (Kyoto) Miyanaga Akira took the limelight for his graduation exhibition at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2008 and went on to receive the Iida Shihiko Award at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi in 2009. HereView More >

6.26 – 8.2 BankART NYK Studio (Yokohama) Three women designers based in Berlin, London, and Milano present the joys of art born of their fashion, interior, and product design-based practices: creative work, as the title suggests, freed from conventional categorization.View More >

7.16 – 10.18 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) Floating Memories Installation view Photo Jean-Lou Majeru A new installation combining sound, sculpture and video by the Sino-European artist born in Luxembourg, whose pavilion featuring her work was winner of the GoldenView More >

5.29 – 8.22 L.A. Gallery（Frankfurt） A Girl Holding a Skull Standing on a Kidney 2007 Resin, porcelain, fabric Approx 120x75x180 cm A solo exhibition by the Chinese artist also currently showing work in the Chinese Pavilion at the 2009 VeniceView More >

8.1 – 11.3 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa What’s yours is mine. What’s mine is mine. 2009 Oil on canvas 194×194cm (c)Tadanori Yokoo Solo show of mainly new works by the graphic designer turned painter whose involvement inView More >

7.25 – 11.8 Mori Art Museum (Roppongi) ‘Forever’ Bicycles, 2003 42 bicycles H275 x D450 cm ©FAKE Studio Contemporary Chinese art giant Ai Weiwei’s first major solo show in Japan, According to What? features 26 works made since the 1990s,View More >

7.8 – 9.30 Frith Street Gallery (London) Escapement, 2009　27 clocks, high glass aluminium with LED lights, four flat screen monitors, video and audio looped　Dimensions variable　Edition of 2 The Delhi-based artist unit presents a provocative series of clocks, clocks whose dialsView More >

8.1 – 29 EYE OF GYRE (GYRE 3F, Omotesando) / Tomio Koyama Gallery / Gallery Koyanagi / Taka Ishii Gallery / TARO NASU / hiromi yoshii / Aoyama｜Meguro Ito ToyoThe New Deichmanske Main Library, 1/500, 2009 Tomio Koyama Gallery, PhotoView More >

8.1–9.27 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Vegetable Weapon Special – oyster pot, runny simmered tofu, sake pot / Hiroshima 2005 Solo show by the artist whose practice focuses on things born of everyday life and human interaction. Invisible RunnerView More >

7.26–9.13 Echigo-Tsumari region (Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town, Niigata Prefecture) http://www.echigo-tsumari.jp/ Lee Jaehyo, 0121-1110=109061 (2009 drawing) A conversation between town and country, contemporary art and satoyama, young and old, built up over some ten years. That it has been possibleView More >