in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list untitled (fl.s.d-021) © Yuichi Higashionna Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates Higashionna Yuichi: fluorescent / new prints & drawings 6.2 – 7.11 NADiff Gallery(Ebisu)[MAP] Kumazawa Mikiko 6.2 – 7.3 Mizuma Action(Nakameguro)[MAP] Yamashita Ritsuko 6.4 –View More >
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Art Fair Tokyo gets new executive director
Art fair Kaneshima Takahiro (b. 1977, Tokyo) Having established itself firmly on the springtime art calendar, Art Fair Tokyo is set to see new leadership when director of FEC (Far East Contemporaries) Kaneshima Takahiro takes over as the new ExecutiveView More >
Shiseido Art Egg call for submissions
Award Murayama Goro Left: God is in the parts, 2009. Right: The interpenetration is done, the drift is done, 2009. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Photo Kioku Keizo Submissions for the fifth ‘shiseido art egg’, an annualView More >
Hariu ichiro (1925-2010)
Art and literary critic Hariu Ichiro died on May 26 in Kawasaki. The cause of death was attributed to heart failure. He was 84. Hariu’s writings during the 1950s and ’60s, focusing primarily on avant-garde art, earned him the reputationView More >
ART HK10 opens to public tomorrow
Art Fair The third edition of Hong Kong’s modern and contemporary art fair previews today with more than 150 galleries participating from 29 countries. Alongside name galleries from major cities throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the US are many ofView More >
Weerasethakul wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Award HdW-08PN5-k Thai artist/filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970 in Bangkok) became the surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. The winning work, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, is a surreal tale aboutView More >
Call for Frieze Writer’s Prize 2010
Award Frieze magazine is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its annual Frieze Writer’s Prize, established in 2006 to support emerging critics. Writers are invited to submit an unpublished review (700 words in English, translations permitted) of aView More >
Tsuzuki Kyoichi opens show in Hiroshima
Exhibition “I’m a journalist, not an artist.” Thus declares Tsuzuki Kyoichi at the entrance to his solo show opening to the public tomorrow at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. After writing and editing for magazines on a range ofView More >
Arakawa Shusaku(1936-2010)
Left: Arakawa Shusaku & Madeline Gins Right: Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park Conceptual artist Arakawa Shusaku died in New York on May 19. He was 73. Arakawa began his career as a jockey for the avant-garde movement inView More >
Kaikai Kiki opens new space in Nakano
Installation view of works at Hidari Zingaro, 2010 Murakami Takashi’s art production company, Kaikai Kiki, has opened a new space called Hidari Zingaro in the otaku shopping mall, Nakano Broadway. The gallery is said to take its name from theView More >