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THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING 2012 REMEMBERANCE

Octavio Zaya is a writer, curator and editor based in New York since 1978. He is director of ATLANTICA journal (Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, CAAM), and curator-at-large at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain. What followsView More >

Yuka Uematsu is a Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, and was Commissioner of Tabaimo’s exhibition in the Japan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. What follows are her Things Worth Remembering for 2012: TheView More >

Chiaki Soma is the Program Director of the annual performing arts festival Festival/Tokyo. What follows are her things worth remembering for 2012: The year since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has been one in which the distance betweenView More >

I. International Exhibitions II. Solo Exhibitions III. Archives IV. Performance I. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS In 2012 there were numerous large-format international exhibitions organized across the world, from La Triennale in Paris to the 7th Berlin Biennial, the 11th Havana Biennale, ManifestaView More >

III. ARCHIVES Since the year 2000 there has been a notable increase in attempts both in Japan and beyond to review the art of the 1960s and ’70s and to uncover the works of neglected artists. As social problems causedView More >

2011 will be entered into the annals as a year of historic convulsions. In terms of citizens and governments, society and art, media and spectacle, throughout the year numerous themes came and went, and then after disappearing, reemerged once more.View More >