Michiko Kasahara, an established authority in Japanese photography, began her work with the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1989 as a curator. After a four year term at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, she returned to the Metropolitan Museum as the Chief Curator in 2006, which she has been leading since.

The Vision Culture Lectures were launched in January 2010 with the endorsement of the UNESCO Observatory Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts. The program is organised and hosted by Shalini Ganendra Fine Art at the gallery’s award winning green art space, Gallery Residence, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

She will be traveling to Jakarta, Indonesia to perform “Inner Chapters” at the Salihara Theater in Jakarta on Sat, 21 April 2012 8:00pm - 10:00pm. Jen is a vocalist, composer, musician and dancer.

Enrico Isamu Oyama is a painter who explores the potential of street art by reconstructing it within the contexts of contemporary visual arts and city spaces. Mr. Oyama received the Asian Cultural Council’s Japan-United States Arts Program grant to research contemporary art, meet artists and curators, and create new work while participating in a residency program at Point B Worklodge in Brooklyn.

Grantee Rica Narimoto, a composer from Japan, will perform at Regis University in Denver, Colorado in their Second Wednesday Faculty Recital Series Antero Winds Recital.
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April 21-23, 2012
The International Festival of Modern Art
TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS OF NEW MUSIC
Odessa, Ukraine

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Koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO premieres new dance and interactive project as part of the new visiting artists’ series ‘The Performing Garage Presents’.

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Grammy® Award-winning ACC grantee Southwest Chamber Music presents a celebration of its 25th anniversary season with premieres and commissions from fifteen composers representing Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US, including compositions by Unsuk Chin, Charles Wuorinen, Anne Le Baron, Lei Liang, Vu Nhat Tan, Tôn Thât Tiêt, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gabriela Ortiz, Hyo-shin Na, and Kurt Rohde.

Vu Nhat Tan will return to Los Angeles, supported by the Asian Cultural Council in New York City, following his successful appearances during Southwest’s Ascending Dragon Music Festival of 2010. Working with American poet Bruce Weigl, Tan’s The Song of Napalm is a break-out piece for the Vietnamese composer.

Tomomi Adachi portrait concert in MaerzMusik March 18, 2012 22:00 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Berlin)
Works by Adachi, Hugo Ball and John Cage with guests, Joke Lanz, Seth Josel and 10 voice performers. Adachi will speak on Cage and Japan in MaerzMusik.

March 20 2012

Cage & Consequences in MaerzMusik
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Berlin)

April 5 2012
Duo with Jennifer Walshe in London
Cafe Oto (London)

Kukuruku Recordings Presents: Daniel Higgs / Jennifer Walshe & Tomomi Adachi / Tasos Stamou & Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga 20:00 at Cafe Oto (London)

April 26 19:00
La-bas Biennale

April 28, 2012
Sanna Hakkola, Leevi Lehto, Tomomi Adachi 15:00 Tomomi Adachi, Jaap Blonk, Leevi Lehto, Eiríkur Örn Norddahl, Cia Rinne at Kiasma Theater (Helsinki)

AHAF HK 2012- The 7th Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair under the auspices of Asia Art Net will take place at the MANDARIN ORIENTAL HONG KONG from February 24 to February 26, 2012, to exchange Asian art and unify the Asian art market. Returning to Hong Kong for the third time, the AHAF HK will feature more than 3,000 works of art, shown over the course of three days, with the participation of more than 60 primary galleries from Korea, China, Japan, Hong Kong and other Asian countries.

The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US.