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7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Shinjuku) Shira-Spirit from the Wild (detail), 2009 Japanese ink, shell powder on Kumohada-mashi (Japanese paper) 182 ｘ 1632 cm Photo: Miyajima Kei (c) Konoike Tomoko Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery Konoike Tomoko’s firstView More >

7.4 – 9.6 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand） 
Mass production workshop no.1 of a foreign capital television manufacturer
, 2008 Jin Jiangbo presents his most recent series of photographic works as the Gallery’s first International Artist in Residence toView More >

6.23 – 7.25 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris) Solo exhibition of primarily drawings by the leading Korean artist Lee Bul. Further information at http://www.ropac.net/exhibitions/2009_6_lee-bul/

7.7 − 9.23 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art The Italian comtemporary sculptor and conceptual artist Giuseppe Penone whose career began in the 1960s is one of the representative artists of the arte povera movement. He has explored the nature ofView More >

6.27 – 9.12 San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) Video still from Aleksander Komarov’s On Translation: Transparency/Architecture Acoustique 2007 Courtesy the artist Amidst the cries of spiraling global economic recession, summertime comes – bringing its own redundant set of emotionally chargedView More >

7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum (Shirokane Takanawa) Kiyokawa Asami Complex-voice 2007 Photograph, embroidery thread Photo Takemi Art Photos A group show by eight Japanese artists using – as the title suggests – needle and thread as their expressiveView More >

6.23 – 9.6 Hayward Gallery (London) Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession, 2009 Mixed media Ten international artists including Thomas Hirschhorn, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Tyson along with Kusama Yayoi, Nara Yoshitomo and Shiota Chiharu from Japan present large-scale installations in the Hayward’sView More >

5.23-7.20 Winter Garden: Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) Yagi Lyota VINYL, 2006 Copyright Lyota Yagi Courtesy Mujin-to Production,Tokyo ‘Micropop’ is a term coined by the art critic (and curator ofView More >

7.12 – 10.12 Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art Won Seoung Won Tomorrow – Village of dogs 2008 LightJet print 120 x 200 cm Group show featuring Korean artists born in the 1970s. The title alludes to antithetical concepts suchView More >