Vintage Fox Talbot negative, c.1840-1841 © Hiroshi Sugimoto Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi The Clematis-no-oka cultural complex in the Shizuoka prefecture city of Mishima will soon celebrate the opening of a new museum devoted to photography: the Izu Photo Museum. Located nearView More >
For the next round of his talk-session series, Ozaki Tetsuya welcomes fashion designer Tsumura Kosuke. For this session ART iT’s editor-in-chief has asked his guest – who in addition to maintaining a design practice that includes his own label, FinalView More >
Thursday 9 September marked the launch of the iida Digital Contents Gallery, a collection of downloadable artworks created by Japanese and international artists and designers for au’s iida-brand mobile phone. Round one features works by the six artists/units Enlightenment, TakimotoView More >
Damien Hirst Ingo, Torsten 1992 (Installation at Unfair, Cologne) Gloss household paint on wall, chairs and twins, Dimensions variable © Damien Hirst, Courtesy White Cube Artist Damien Hirst is calling for identical twins to take part in his artwork forView More >
Front and back covers of the October 2009 issue of papyrus（¥730; Gentosha） Artist Ohtake Shinro is the subject of a special feature in the October issue (now on sale) of the culture magazine papyrus. Among the special feature’s series ofView More >
Matsushima Shunsuke VOICE-PORTRAIT ~self-introduction~ http://voice-portrait.tumblr.com/ Winners of the CREAM competition staged in conjunction with the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama to open at the end of October were announced today: the CREAM Prize went to Matsushima Shunsuke’s VOICE-PORTRAITView More >
Twenty-four artists and researchers partaking in the now underway Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009 will gather in the city on 22 September for a symposium. Participants including Ou Ning, Tsubaki Noboru, Hirata Oriza, Yanobe Kenji, Yoshimi Shunya and Aqua Metropolis OsakaView More >
Chinese Malaysian artist Emil Goh died suddenly on 7 September at his apartment in Seoul. He was 43. Media sources are reporting the cause as a heart attack. As an artist, Goh was known mainly for his photo and videoView More >
September 16 marks the grand opening of (an art) PAWNSHOP at The shop operated by Vitamin Creative Space in Beijing. The project appeals both to artists ‘in need of fast cash’ and prospective buyers to ‘come down and browse itsView More >
Round 3 of the ‘I love Art – Art & Capitalism: Art Lovers’ Mixer’, a place to meet other art enthusiasts both male and female and for art fans to meet gallerists, takes place once again courtesy Civic Art, theView More >