The art festival bringing together noteworthy art from across Asia and the Pacific held (almost) every three years in Brisbane, Australia is now underway. The sixth and latest edition of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) boasts moreView More >
The ‘noughties’ now dispatched, a new decade is upon us. Amid a change in government in Japan, the loss of some big names in the entertainment world, and ongoing economic turmoil, we look back on contemporary art in 2009, andView More >
An artist whose ‘sketches’ of contemporary Japan that have taken as their stages the bathhouse, the kitchen, the commuter train, and public toilet, making them a mirror to reflect her own inner life, now takes up ‘the generations’ as herView More >
Filmic expression in all its myriad manifestations has altered and proliferated dramatically since its inception in terms of motifs, techniques and style, to the extent that it’s easy to forget film itself has only existed for little over a century.View More >
Installation view of Best of Discovery at ShContemporary 2008 Courtesy ShContemporary What kind of impact did the ‘Lehman Shock’ of September 2008 have on the art market? Has the market recovered from this impact or not? How have the purchasing habitsView More >
Claude Lévêque In silence or in noises 2009 A chance to experience art from around the world amid natural surroundings, in quiet rural settings far from metropolitan galleries and museums. The producer of the event asserts that ‘contemporary art shinesView More >
The Japanese pavilion at Venice, a renowned piece of architecture in its own right, is to be transformed into a tent. Meanwhile an historic building on the Grand Canal will be reborn as an art museum, with one of theView More >