II. The Seated Queen Cerith Wyn Evans on the slippages between poetics and politics. Installation view of the exhibition “Bubble Peddler” at Kunsthaus Graz, 2007. Photo Lackner, © the artist, courtesy Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. ART iT: We were just speakingView More >
FREEDOM ON EARTH: METABOLISM, FAVELA, YANGJIANG GROUP A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist The Yangjiang Group headquarters. © the artists. Dear HUO, I enjoyed very much reading your comments on Metabolism, and especially Damisch’s AView More >
Launch of the Prix Émile Hermès 2011 Entries are invited for the second Prix Émile Hermèsfor design. The Prix Émile Hermès establishes design as a key focus for the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès,complementing the Foundation’s distinguished record of support forView More >
From Hara Museum, Tokyo On September 16 (Thurs.) and 17 (Fri.), we held Cesare Picco BLIND DATE concert in the Dark at The Hall of the museum. The concert was held in complete darkness, which rarely exists in the naturalView More >
“Agnosian Fields” by Didier Fiuza Faustino Press Conference at Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum in August 25, 2010 Hermès (H): First, could you talk about your concept behind this exhibition, “Agnosian Fields”? Didier Fiuza Faustino (DFF): Hello everyone. First ofView More >
Between Blue Rocks By Aveek Sen Dayanita Singh – Dream Villa 40 (2008), C-type print. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London. To approach photography through the gates of poetry is to complicate the relationship of bothView More >
By Shinro Ohtake Left: Vintage promotional pamphlet for the film Wu yue yu zhong hua, xia ji (Blossom in Rainy May Part 2, 1960), directed by Kim Chun, produced by Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company, Hong Kong. Right:View More >
Memory, too, fails at such excess By Andrew Maerkle Les Archives du Coeur (2010). Photo Yasuhide Kuge, courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation. Throughout his four-decade-long career, Christian Boltanski has explored relations between objects and memory. His installationsView More >
Yasuhiro Suzuki – Ship of the Zipper (2010) Megijima, rendering. Courtesy the Setouchi International Art Festival. (Naoshima) On July 19, Japan’s newest art festival opened to the public. Sprawling across seven islands in the Seto Inland Sea as wellView More >
Dan Cameron reflects on his recent visit to Seattle’s uniquely architectural art scene Exterior view of Western Bridge. Courtesy Western Bridge, Seattle. I was not in Seattle for the purpose of looking at art, and probably no oneView More >
Born in London in 1960 to parents who immigrated to the UK from the Caribbean island of St Lucia, Isaac Julien is known for making multichannel media installations, feature-length films and television documentaries that address issues related to identity,View More >
Shusaku Arakawa has passed away. I had the opportunity to meet the artist, who was known professionally outside of Japan by his surname, several times over the course of my career. In the 1980s while I was running the ICAView More >