Award Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima Photo Takashi Okamoto Courtesy SANAA Sejima Kazuyo and Nishizawa Ryue, the duo of Japanese architects who work together under the name SANAA, have been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, an honor oftenView More >
Art fair Art Fair Tokyo 2009 Photo: Iwashita Munetoshi Japan’s top art fair, Art Fair Tokyo, kicks off its 2010 edition on 2 April at Tokyo International Forum. Launched in 2005, participating galleries this year at the Fair’s fifthView More >
Event Yamamoto Motoi Labyrinth 2010 Salt 17.3 x 13m Installation at MOT Annual 2010, Courtesy the artist As a closing event to the MOT Annual 2010: Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is inviting 100View More >
Event Photo: Suzuki Yoshio From photographic works to sculpture, and with the opening of the IZU PHOTO MUSEUM (2009, Mishima), to architectural and garden design… Sugimoto Hiroshi forges on with his sweeping creative practice. Deputy editor of BRUTUS,View More >
Exhibition The sixth edition in BankArt’s Food and contemporary art series is structured around the idea of a ‘full course’ tour of the city. Visitors stroll the streets of Yokohama sampling projects by 11 artists/units including Kimura TakahitoView More >
Event Tonight (Saturday 27 March) Tokyo’s Roppongi district holds its annual art all-nighter. Among the host of events, artist Tsubaki Noboru will unveil a new work and performance and the French performance troupe Compagnie des Quidams will takeView More >
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series © Tate Tate Modern has invited the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a site-specific work for the gallery’s Turbine Hall, a space 35 meters in height and 152 metersView More >
4O0OqdIoOPQ The new multi-use Rolex Learning Center is located on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, which overlooks Lake Geneva and the Alps. Open to the public as well as students, it will act as a hubView More >
Event Handa Masanori study 2010 © Masanori Handa The last installment of curator Amano Kazuo’s yearlong exhibition series Metamorphosis: Objects Today underway at gallery αM features an installation by Handa Masanori covering the gallery walls in materials used asView More >
Auction Christie’s First Open Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 11 March realized a total of $7,552,900 from 146 (of 168) lots sold. The top lot was Wayne Thiebaud’s Valley River (1995, oil on canvas) fetching $842,500 (est. $200-300,000), followedView More >