The exhibition that was supposed to be artist unit Chim Pom’s first solo show at a museum, was put off. According to schedule, the event should have kicked off on November 1…

On October 9, the Nam June Paik Art Center opened in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The Center has been in planning in negotiation with "the father of video art" himself since 2001…

It will soon be eight years since playwright Kisaragi Koharu passed away. At this occasion, the piece "Traumerei (2008)" was staged with Takahashi Yuji playing at once the roles of director, author, composer and pianist (on 9/19-21 at theatre iwato)…

With preparations for international exhibitions, related events and art fairs underway in ten major Asian cities, October will be another extremely busy month for everyone who loves or is involved in art…

Art Taipei two years ago was a horrible experience. Staged at venues including a former brewery, he event had a nice, open feel to it, but regardless of the subtropical climate, the venues weren't air-conditioned…

Genre-crossing collaborations are tricky ventures. A few years ago, I went to see a piece that was realized in cooperation between a certain fashion…

For the first time in my life I visited the Fuji Rock Festival (7/25-27). Ten years after moving the venue to Naeba, it was a fun event that was only…

I went to see Kanamori Jo’s company Noism08 perform their new piece "Physical Theater: Nameless Hands" (7/5 at Theatre Tram). With its dramatic construction…

Through the courtesy of the University of Melbourne’s "Asialink" and the Japan Foundation, I was able to attend the "Australia Japan Visual Arts Forum" in Sydney (6/16-17 at the Australian Council for the Arts)…

I had some business to do in Yamaguchi earlier in June, and when Ushioda Atsuko, a friend of mine, heard that I was going to travel there, she sent me…..

I heard that Douglas Gordon was in Japan, so I went to Kyoto to meet him for an interview. I did not meet him in Tokyo, where his piece "Confessions of…..

(continued) The piece I thought of is Damien Hirst’s "Mother and Child, Divided", an item every fan of contemporary art should be familiar with…..

On the day the Olympic torch relay was underway in Nagano, in Aomori the Towada Art Center opened its doors. I attended both the press preview and…..

The first week of April, shortly after we sent "ART iT" No. 19 (out April 17) off to the printer, rang in what will be a crazy "month of the arts" in Tokyo…..

Toni (Antonio) Negri’s visit to Japan was cancelled. According to officials from the International House of Japan, who had invited Negri, and from…..

I paid two visits to Hong Kong in February and March, primarily to see Chanel’s "Mobile Art" exhibition. I'll be writing about it in the upcoming…..

I went to the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) to see Ikeda Ryoji’s new "datamatics" installations (on show until 5/25). I chose 3/1, the first day of the exhibition…..

Everything flows. All is vanity. What sounds like religious dogmas holds true also in the realm of culture. This weekend, the Complex Building in Roppongi closes down…..

I went to see the Batsheva Dance Company’s "Telophaza", the troupe’s second performance in Japan and the first in 11 years (2/3 at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall)…..

A total of 33 mainly Tokyo-based contemporary art galleries were represented at the "ART@AGNES2008" art fair that was held on 1/11-13 at a hotel in…..