THE GARDEN SPEAKS FOR ITSELF By Andrew Maerkle and Natsuko Odate Proposed Helsinki Garden at the Singapore Biennale (2011), site-specific community project commissioned by the Singapore Biennale 2011 . Photo Mae Ee Wong. All images: Courtesy Martha Rosler. In March 2011View More >
Kuninosuke Matsuo and the Yomiuri Independent Exhibitions (Part I) From fall 2010 through May this year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has held a series of two exhibitions of works from its collection titled “MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963: Days ofView More >
54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale ILLUMInations June 4 – November 27, 2011 Multiple venues, Venice Jack Goldstein – The Jump (1978), 16mm film, colour, silent, 26 sec. All Images: Photo ART iT. Entitled “ILLUMInations” and organized by BiceView More >
Navin Rawanchaikul at his studio in Chiang Mai. Photo ART iT While many artists use the Venice Biennale as a platform to critique, parody or invert expressions of national identity, Navin Rawanchaikul is the very embodiment of just such anView More >
Installation view of the French Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, “Chance,” by Christian Boltanski, with kinetic installation The Wheel of Fortune in foreground and the interactive multimedia work Be New in background. All images: Photo Didier Plowy In JulyView More >
This article was originally published Mar 15. Last updated Apr 13. We appreciate the expressions of concern and sympathy from our friends and colleagues overseas following the Tohoku Pacific Earthquake and Tsunami that struck on Mar 11 and the ongoingView More >
3.25: Remembering Yusuke Nakahara (1931-2011) On Mar 3, the pioneering art critic and administrator Yusuke Nakahara died of complications related to gallbladder cancer, age 79. A graduate of Kyoto University’s Faculty of Science, Nakahara is perhaps best remembered for hisView More >
A week has passed since the devastating Tohoku Pacific Earthquake and Tsunami that struck northeastern Japan March 11. With the ensuing nuclear crisis at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, these events have taken a great human, economic and spiritual tollView More >
From the Mouth or in the Mouth but not of the Mouth – Words and Objects By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of Too Far to See (2011) at the Yokohama Museum of Art; ceramic, computers, projectors, speakers, mirrors; sound programmingView More >
Galoppa! (2009), installation view in the solo exhibition “Last Fuck” at Galleria Zero, Milan, 2009. Work details: one saddle, two framed documents (the riding saddle of bishop Peter Tran Thanh Chung who ministered to the indigenous people in the CentralView More >
Cultural Boys, Saigon, 1962, from the installation “Good Life” at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2007. Courtesy Danh Vo and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. (Cruising) ART iT: Who do you stay with in Pacific Palisades? DV: I stay with this American guyView More >
‘Too Far to See’ January 21 to March 20, 2011 Yokohama Museum of Art God Bless America (2002), video, 8 min 18 sec. In 2004, Tadasu Takamine’s video Kimura-san was preemptively removed from the group exhibition “Non-Sect Radical Contemporary PhotographyView More >