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9.17 – 10.10 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong) Comerchina – Hopscotch Installation A solo show of new paintings and installations exploring new China’s over-commercialization and obsession with money. The artist coined the word ‘Comerchina’ to mean ‘Commercial China’ orView More >

Koza / Tokyo / New York / Eastern Europe / USSR 8.29 – 10.18 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Left: Neryungri, Russia 1991 Right: Tokyo Imageshop Camp 1979 A selection of some 190 photographers capturing cities around the world duringView More >

8.13 – 9.23 Korean Cultural Service NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery (New York) Ahn Kang-hyun Song of the Son of the Sun 2005 Single channel video, 5’30” A group show hosted by the National Museum of ContemporaryView More >

8.19 – 10.10 Sombat Permpoon Gallery (Bangkok) Sujin Wattanawongcha Blue chips 2009 Collages and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Arabic numerals, Chinese numerals, Roman numerals, Greek numerals… The four members of the Thai artist group Circle-Curated – TopView More >

8.29 – 10.12 Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito James Turrell Soft Cell 1992 Photo Anzai Shigeo An attempt to highlight the pleasures of contemporary art by presenting it in a friendlier form. Along with works by James Turrell, SoneView More >

8.1 – 11.8 Heide Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) The Duck-Rabbit Problem  1991 Synthetic fur, synthetic stuffing, wood, polystyrene, enamel paint © Kathy Temin This survey spans 20 years of Kathy Temin’s inventive sculptural practice by combining her early foraysView More >

Siding Railroad 8.28 – 9.23 Former Seibu Railway Tokorozawa railroad car factory (Saitama) Photo YamamotoTadasu An artist-initiated biennial exhibition planned and operated in close alliance with its locale, for which, barring grants, the participating artists also raised the funding. LeadView More >

8.8 – 9.6 Dojima River Forum（Osaka） The Dojima River flows on the northern edge Nakanoshima in central Osaka, and it is along these riverbanks that a new art festival is about to begin. With Mori Art Museum Director Nanjo FumioView More >