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Thorntorn Dial at Edel Assanti
Thornton Dial’s first UK solo exhibition of large-scale paintings and assemblages, ‘From Bessemer to the Cosmos’, is a reflection on the African-American experience across the twentieth century and beyond. Read more
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Joseph Beuys at Thaddeus Ropac
Interested in the natural sciences from childhood and enrolled in the Hitler Youth (membership was compulsory at the time), Beuys developed a body of work in which visceral warmth and… Read more
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Art Collaboration Kyoto: Between Globalisation and Glocalisation (Extract)
In recent years, debates surrounding the future of art fairs have shifted beyond questions of scale and expansion. As art fairs have become a central infrastructure of the contemporary art… Read more
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How compatible is the Western mega-gallery model with Japan’s contemporary art ecosystem? (Extract)
Mega-galleries have become the dominant infrastructure of the global art market, reshaping how artists, collectors, and institutions operate. With branches across continents, ever-expanding artist rosters, and financial power few can… Read more
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Reviewed Work: Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan (Extract)
Wasano and Onishi’s study represents the first large-scale empirical attempt to classify contemporary art collectors in Japan according to their motivations and psychographic traits. Using a mixed-methods approach, Wasano and… Read more
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Analysis of Kanō Tan’yū’s Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers and the Making of an Early Edo Art Market
Few names hold as much weight in the history of Japanese art as the Kanō family and the influential school that bore their name. Founded in the fifteenth century by… Read more
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RUTEN – In Memory of Takehiko Sugawara
From October 9 to November 8, Galerie Tamenaga Paris presents a commemorative retrospective on the works of Takehiko Sugawara. The artist, who was born in Tokyo in 1962, tragically accidentally… Read more
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Frieze London and Art Basel Paris: How emerging galleries pay the price of prestige
Coming back from an intense week at Frieze London, where I worked in the Focus section, I couldn’t help but compare how the two major fairs—Frieze London and Art Basel… Read more
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Frieze London 2025, Preview KAYOKOYUKI
For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and… Read more
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プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 