Presenting trajectories in Japanese and international performing arts since its launch in 1993, NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival) celebrates its 30th staging – international and Asian series combined. The milestone edition – taking place over three Japanese cities –View More >
■Event Callum Morton Valhalla 2007 Photo Callum Morton ©Anna Schwartz Gallery and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Melbourne’s annual festival of performing and visual arts brings together a mind-bogglingly broad range of contemporary art, dance, film, music, theatre, and more fromView More >
It’s official! January 2010 will see the premiere of a new Tokyo contemporary art fair: G-tokyo 2010. What sets this fair apart from other Japanese fairs is the international scale of the 15 participating galleries, namely: ARATANIURANO, Gallery Koyanagi, GalleryView More >
Film director, actor, and professor at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Kitano Takeshi presents his first ever art exhibition next March at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Among JapaneseView More >
Portrait of Rob Pruitt and the Delusional Downtown Divas Photo Kai Regan New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has announced the establishment of The First Annual Art Awards with event partner Calvin Klein Collection. Artist Rob Pruitt has conceived theView More >
This year marks the 30th anniversary of China’s first public contemporary art show: The Stars Exhibition. To celebrate the occasion, the pioneer founding member of the avant-garde Stars group and advocate of the Dashanzi Factory 798 Art District, Huang Rui,View More >
Sugimoto Hiroshi Lightning Fields 119 2009 Gelatin silver print ©Hiroshi Sugimoto Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Recipients of the 21st Praemium Imperiale, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association (under the presidency of Prince Hitachi) to honor worldwide achievement in the arts, were announced on 24View More >
Asada Akira Academia open lectures by KUAD Grad School president Asada Akira and his guests begin next month at the University. The 20 October session will include a screening of S/N, the legendary stage piece by multimedia performance group dumbView More >
Akihabara will soon be home to a new art center. After undergoing renovation, the former Chiyoda-ku Rensei Junior High School will feature exhibition space, artists’ studios and workshop areas. Working towards a planned launch in February 2010, the facility isView More >
Contemporary artist Matsukage Hiroyuki will screen the new version of his video ECHO, presented last month at the Dojima River Biennale in Osaka, and appear in a symposium. ECHO is a performance in which the artist throws and breaks glassView More >