American abstract painter, Kenneth Noland, died on 5 January. He was 85. According to his wife Paige Rense, the editor in chief of Architectural Digest, the cause was cancer. Originally from North Carolina, Noland studied painting at the experimental BlackView More >
Book The latest collection of interviews conducted by the globetrotting curator who topped ArtReview‘s ‘Power 100’ list of the most influential members of the contemporary art world in 2009 has been released. Conducted mainly in 2006 and 2007, Hans UlrichView More >
Event RMB City is the virtual city built by one of China’s most visible artists, Cao Fei, on the online virtual-reality platform Second Life. Now the city whose growth we observed in the artist’s solo exhibition last year at ShiseidoView More >
The Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) was established in 1997 by Chinese contemporary art collector Uli Sigg. The CCAA Artist Awards and Art Critic Awards are awarded every alternate year to promote the activities of Chinese artists and art criticsView More >
Book Araki’s new photobook 2THESKY, my Ender was released by Shinchosha at the end of 2009. The book contains 254 works from a series created in a kind of diaristic mode using photographs of the sky taken from his balconyView More >
Event Beuys in Japan Filmart, A5/224 pages/¥2,600 out January 2010 Beuys in Japan, the catalogue published to coincide with the 8 Days – Beuys in Japan exhibition showing through 24 January at Art Tower Mito, has just been released. ToView More >
Left: Watanabe Yutaka untitled Right: Sudo Yukiko Montblanc flowers and weeds Montblanc, of fountain-pen fame, is exhibiting works by seven emerging Japanese artists in its Ginza store. The retailers launched their Montblanc Young Artists Patronage in Japan program in 2007 asView More >
CASA BRUTUS vol.118（out 10 December） Feature: Best 100 in architecture and design http://magazineworld.jp/casabrutus/118/ Bijutsu-techo vol. 62 No.932（out 17 December） Feature: History of Japanese illustration http://www.bijutsu.co.jp/bt/ Art Review: December 2009 60th Anniversary Issue http://www.artreviewdigital.com/ Flash Art November/December 2009 Features: JungYeondoo /View More >
magical, ARTROOM president/director Okada Satoshi says he will retire from the gallery world, and instead focus his efforts on running the alternative space and bar MAGIC ROOM??? on the fourth floor of the same building (NADiff a/p/a/r/t), in preparation toView More >
■Event Tickets are now on sale for the Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist-activist Paul Chan’s extraordinary live multimedia presentation about his November 2007 productions in New Orleans of Waiting for Godot. Chan staged five performances of the production to localView More >