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The architect Kiyonori Kikutake died Dec 26, 2011, at a hospital in Tokyo due to heart failure, it was reported Jan 5. He was 83 years old. One of the founders of Japan’s avant-garde Metabolist architecture group, formed in 1960View More >

The prolific industrial designer Sori (Munemichi) Yanagi died Dec 25 at the age of 96, it has been reported. Born in Tokyo, Yanagi was the son of the Mingei folk art movement founder and philosopher Soetsu (Muneyoshi) Yanagi. He studiedView More >

Yuko Hasegawa has been appointed curator of Sharjah Biennial 11, to be held in 2013, it was announced Dec 14. The chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Hasegawa has proposed an exhibition that reassesses the EurocentrismView More >

James Yamada’s The summer shelter retreats darkly among the trees (2011), at Parasol unit, London. Photo Stephen White. Commissioned by the London private gallery Parasol unit, the American artist James Yamada has designed a pavilion that can relieve the effectsView More >

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 >