Auction Sotheby’s contemporary-art evening sale in London on 10 February soared past its pre-sale estimates of £32-45 million to deliver total sales of £54,074,450. Forty-seven of the 77 lots on offer were from the Austrian-based Sammlung Lenz Schönberg collection assembledView More >
Award Mitsuya Toshihiko The indignant, 13th Taro Award winning work The winners of 13th Taro Award – established to support artists who succeed the spirit that artist Okamoto Taro manifested in his creative practice – have been announced. Twenty-twoView More >
Exhibition The first of a series of graduation shows by students of Oil & Japanese Painting at Tama Art University Kamonoge opens Tuesday 9 February. The department is characterized in its quest to foster new forms of expressionView More >
Kobe Art Village Center launched its annual ‘1floor’ project in 2008 with the aim of supporting young artists and curators by allowing them use the KAVC gallery and 1room community space – in other words, an entire floor – toView More >
The new year saw the launch of the new art space ‘island’, and 30 January marked the opening of their first exhibition, New World. Island is operated by former magical, ARTROOM director and staff Ito Haruka and Yuki Kayoko, artistView More >
Award The 2010 Ordway Prize recognizing the contributions of a curator and artist whose work has had a significant impact on the field of contemporary art was awarded to American curator Hamza Walker and Polish artist Artur Zmijewski. Cosponsored byView More >
Auction Alberto Giacometti’s bronze L’Homme Qui Marche I (1961) sold for a shattering £65,001,250 (pre-sale estimate £12–18 million) to an anonymous telephone bidder in the Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 February, setting aView More >
Book & event The artist unit Ikeda Midori, consisting of photographer Ikeda Masanori and artist Mitamura Midori, have published a photo-collection bearing their collective name. Formed in 2007, the unit made its emerging artist debut in Europe inView More >
Award The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its Biennale for Young Artists. Entry is open to artists 30 years of age and younger and artworks of all genres. Forming this year’sView More >
Event A symposium organized to examine the current state of architectural archiving in Japan and possible courses of action for the future. The program includes a keynote talk by top architectural archivist, Irena Murray (Banister Fletcher Director, British Architectural Library,View More >