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This new survey celebrates the lives and work of 44 Modern Japanese artists dating from the early 20th century to today, exploring printmaking in all its forms. Artists featured include Saitō Kiyoshi, who was influenced by European artists, especially Odilon Redon and Edvard Munch, along with Shinoda Tōkō who trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy but, in her own words, "decided to try my own style".

I have been a full-time, professional art critic for most of my adult life. I spend my days in galleries, surrounded by art, reading about it, absorbing it. I like art a lot, but I am also cynical about its supposed benefits beyond the merely aesthetic. But just as a new study by the Art Fund finds that art isn't just good for our mental wellbeing but our physical health,

Executed in black ink, Portrait of a Woman (2023) is based on one of the photographs of anonymous women taken in summer 1941 at Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto by the German soldier Willy Georg. With authorisation from his superiors in the Nazi occupation forces in Poland, Georg entered the Ghetto and shot five rolls of film with his Leica. One was confiscated, together with the camera, by a German patrol that stopped him,

A woman was arrested by CHP officers in Dublin after crashing her car, possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and leaving a 1-year-old child behind in the car. The officers found the woman walking along the roadway of I-580, and when they located the car, they found the child inside; the child is reportedly okay. [CHP-Dublin/Facebook] The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is going "nomadic" when it leaves its home of one year, the Cube on Montgomery Street, early next year.

Visitors to a major JMW Turner exhibition may well be surprised to see the opening work is by Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst sharks, a Bridget Riley stripe painting and some Doc Marten boots supplied by the curator herself are also on display. Surprised? That's what we're hoping, said Melissa Gustin, the curator of British art at National Museums Liverpool. But by the end it will all make perfect sense, she hopes. That is the vibe we are after.

Japan is an island nation rich in timber, from cypress (Hinoki) to cedar (Sugi) to larch (Karamatsu). Its renowned woodworking heritage dates back centuries, taking the form of immaculately carved wooden beams in houses, ornate storage boxes, and revered religious statuary. For some artists working today, this timeless tradition translates perfectly into contemporary expressions. Hand-hewn from timber, expressive faces and dynamic motifs emerge in the sculptures of Kigaku - Re(a)lize - at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo.

Downtown San Jose welcomed a new cultural gem with the opening of the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center at 150 East Santa Clara Street on October 17. The midday ribbon-cutting ceremony featured remarks from Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, representatives from the San Jose Downtown Association, and owner Jianhua Shu. This event marked the expansion of the center from its original Santa Clara location, established in 2004, which has long showcased modern and ancient artworks.

"You'll also find a primer for the exhibitions," Monetta White, the director and chief executive of MoAD, tells The Art Newspaper. "You'll find a framework, some vocabulary, some definitions of the themes." Meanwhile, she points out, much of the rest of the $500,000 renovation has gone into critical infrastructure improvements visitors will hardly notice, such as lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system.

Once a London district made up of neon-lit sex shops and late-night clubs, King's Cross has been polished by regeneration, yet here, the curators draw on the history of the space to choreograph a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city, attempting to explore how contemporary artistic practices might inhabit, and even provoke, the residues of urban change and regeneration.

The gallery has been on a solid run in recent months, with a well-received edition of its annual from young British artist and video game designer Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi artist and architect Marina Tabassum, and two buzzy autumn shows in the first major solo exhibition Danielle Brathwaite Shirley and the latest show from Peter Doig - famed for being the most expensive living artist in Europe - inspired by sound system culture.

This is the market laid bare, with all of its champagne, ludicrous outfits and obscene excess on brazen display for anyone willing to fork out a wodge on a ticket. That's what reviews of Frieze generally complain about, all the greedy capitalistic knives being stabbed into the heart of their beloved, pure art. But Frieze, and the more refined Frieze Masters, isn't really about art.

On Sunday (12 October), Jefferson Hack hosted a special dinner to celebrate the opening of new exhibition Paradigm Shift: New Dimensions in Moving Image, presented by 180 Studios in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta. Kicking off Frieze week, the dinner took place at 180 Strand, and welcomed featured artists from the exhibition, including Gillian Wearing, Mark Leckey, Julianknxx, Josefa Ntjam, Arthur Jafa, Sophia Al Maria and Babak Radboy.

Whether portraying families at play, people walking along urban streets, or portraits of individuals, Derrick Adams celebrates Black identity and experience. His collage-like compositions evoke West African masks, reliquary figures, and other carved sculptures, highlighting contemporary, everyday scenes and leisure activities of Black Americans. A new monograph from Monicelli surveys more than two decades of Adams' geometric paintings, made in his signature multihued, faceted style. Derrick Adams is the first monograph to survey the artist's entire career, tracing his stylistic evolution and the themes that recur throughout his paintings.

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Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn't so much the sum of its parts as a total negation of anything good any of them has ever done. Whatever qualities YBA kingpin Damien Hirst and street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader might have, none of them are on display in this staggeringly vast exhibition

As the exhibition title suggests, Stark plays with painting and sculpture by adding or accentuating the dimensions of her work, often transforming two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional ones," the gallery said. "'Squared,' which is composed of thirty-five square sheets of powder coated aluminum, inhabits the wall like a painting. Each sheet is painted a different color and has a concentric square fold that extends outside the picture plane towards the viewer.

The short documentary IntranQu'îllités is a rich tour of Haiti and its arts scene, guided by some of the country's most celebrated contemporary artists. Tethered together by evocative narration from the Haitian poet James Noël, the film presents an eclectic array of writers, musicians and visual artists who grapple with questions of personal and national identity, challenging stereotypes about the small Caribbean nation and its people in the process.