Taking place from Thursday, September 11, through Sunday, September 14, the third edition of the Tokyo Gendai fair, which is held at PACIFICO Yokohama, a large facility in the port city of Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, offers a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary-art scene, with numerous Japanese galleries among its exhibitors. Several foreign dealers are participating, too. See our photo-filled report. Free-access article. Above: Detail of a painting by the artist Shoko Nakazawa, Kaikai Kiki Gallery.

Those sounds you hear are the sounds of endless war-making; the gears of injustice, criminality, and corruption running rampant just about everywhere; and the anguished, desperate cries of people around the world declaring, “Enough! We’ve had enough! We want to live in peace, in societies in which truth, civility, and justice prevail.” See our essay, which takes the pulse of this crisis moment.

“Seiseiruten • In Flux,” an exhibition at the Kōmi-machi Kōgen Museum in the far eastern part of Nagano Prefecture, Japan, explores how artists imaginatively reuse, recycle, and repurpose found and cast-off materials, often items that are far from the usual stuff of art-making. The show features works by five U.S.A.-based artists — Lisa Solomon, Christine Buckton Tillman, Libby Black, Mitra Fabian, and Aurora Robson — and the Japanese artist Reimy Nakai, from the Nakano region. See our photo-filled report.

An exhibition at Tokyo-to Shibuyakoen-dori Gallery, one of Japan’s leading venues for the presentation of art produced by self-taught artists, features works in various media and genres by eleven British art-makers. Curated by Jennifer Gilbert, a well-known, young British art dealer who specializes in the documenting and promotion of art created by neurodivergent persons and those with disabilities, the exhibition showcases a wide range of innovative techniques and sets up some interesting aesthetic dialogues with what has become known as contemporary Japanese art brut.

Based in Switzerland, Kuniko Satonobu Spirig is an art historian who has focused on the work of the French modernist Sonia Delaunay but who in recent years has turned her attention to the less well-known, abstract painter Teruko Yokoi (1924-2020), who had long lived and worked in the Swiss capital city, Bern. Now Spirig has produced a book and a docu-film casting light on the life and career of Yokoi, who had briefly been married to the painter Sam Francis and who, after separating from him, charted her own course in Europe. Just before her death in late 2020, Yokoi’s star had begun rising in the international art world. See our report about Yokoi and Spirig’s new works honoring the artist’s achievements.