The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM), with generous support from the Ishibashi Foundation, has launched an English-Japanese bilingual website, Asian Art Resource Room, a learning space dedicated to deepening understanding of modern and contemporary Asian art, using the museum’s collection of documentation, information, and networks that it has accumulated over the years.View More >

The “failure’ of shosoku – Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver I recently went to see the Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver exhibition “Breath Amorphous” (BankART KAIKO and BankART Station, Yokohama). I had previously seen Gulliver’s work at group exhibitions, but this was my first opportunity to view so many of his pieces together in a retrospective-like format.View More >

The Bunun tribe and dancers—mutual giving and bestowing of life forces—By Miwa Yanagi
Singing voices of men resonate from beyond the darkness. Voices call upon one another from different directions amid the mountains in the middle of the night, perhaps to signal the beginning of a ritual or the return of hunters…View More >

READING A WAVE—By Andrew Maerkle
“The exhibition brings up stories of migration and diaspora to remind us that Busan was a city where immigrants from different regions all coexisted through the late 19th century, the Korean War, and industrialization; it is a call to defend and maintain that spirit of openness and inclusion.”View More >

Text: Jung-Yeon Ma Ho Tzu Nyen’s solo exhibition “Voice of Void” was presented at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] from April 3 to July 4, 2021. At the beginning of the talk with the artist and the production team held at the opening of the exhibition, the question was posed: “Why the Kyoto School now?” …View More >

EVERYWHERE DIFFERENTLY (CONDENSED) — By Andrew Maerkle
“I think of androgyny more as a multiplying than a doubling per se. I never had a strong identification with the two genders I was offered when I was growing up. I see shades of gender, degrees toward the masculine and degrees toward the feminine and everything in between. And I was somewhere in between, feeling like I had the best of both sides without being either.”View More >

NEVERENDING NEVERENDING STORIES — By Andrew Maerkle
“My idea was to produce a reportage painting that would chronicle Japan’s relationship with nuclear power. I think it’s the same for anybody, but something that starts out as a shocking event will fade from memory over the years. In order to resist that, I wanted to make a reportage painting ghastly enough to immediately recall the terror and foreboding of the time for viewers.”View More >

LEAP BEYOND VOID – By Andrew Maerkle
"How does Buddhism get wrapped up in the techniques of violence and killing of samurai culture, which in many ways culminated in kamikaze culture? This led me to a kind of inconsistency at the root of Kyoto School philosophy. For example, Kitaro Nishida’s foundational concept of zettai mu, or “absolute nothingness”: it is absolute but nothing at the same time."View More >