HAND-HELD CINEMA By Akira Rachi All Images: © Wang Bing and Y. Production. Born in 1967, Wang Bing has risen to acclaim as one of China’s and the world’s most extraordinary documentary filmmakers. Beginning with his feature debut Tie XiView More >

HAND-HELD CINEMA By Akira Rachi All Images: © Wang Bing and Y. Production. Born in 1967, Wang Bing has risen to acclaim as one of China’s and the world’s most extraordinary documentary filmmakers. Beginning with his feature debut Tie XiView More >
THE TALE OF TWO DREAMERS By Andrew Maerkle All images: Unless otherwise noted, Installation view of “Condensation” at Le Forum, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, 2014. © Nacása & Partners Inc, courtesy Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Since 2010, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès hasView More >
Pipilotti Rist – Mercy Garden Retour Skin (2014), audio and video installation (photograph inspired by Yuji). Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine. At a press conference in Kyoto on April 4, Shinji Kohmoto, the artistic director ofView More >
CITIES AND THE SKY By Andrew Maerkle All images: On How the Earth Wishes to Resemble the Sky (II) (2005), metal, wood and lighting. Installation view in “The Marvelous Real: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from the MUSAC Collection”View More >
Cardboard Cathedral (2013), Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo Stephen Goodenough. Shigeru Ban has been awarded the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it has been announced. Ban is the seventh Japanese architect to win the prize, considered to be the top distinction inView More >
CINEMA OF CONSEQUENCE By Andrew Maerkle All images: Lav Diaz – Norte, the End of History (2013). © Raymond Lee & Lav Diaz. Born in 1958, Lav Diaz is known for his films depicting contemporary life in the Philippines throughView More >
The Earthly Paradise Vol.7 Aki Yahata 15 FEB – 22 MAR 2014 gallery αM http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/
THE SPACE BETWEEN 0 AND 1 By Andrew Maerkle Guide Star, ESO (2012). All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy Wolfgang Tillmans and Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. One of the leading artists working with photography today, WolfgangView More >
II. ART iT: We were just discussing the “Approaches” (1987-88) series of early photocopy works and your fascination with the gray areas between opposing extremes, information and no information, the rational and irrational. In that sense I am curious toView More >
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions – TRUE COLORS 7 FEB – 23 FEB 2014 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and more http://www.yebizo.com/ Kimsooja A Needle Woman (2000-01) Yoko Asakai. Installation view of wayfinding (2014) Daisuke Bundo cassetteView More >
Lee Kit: By the way, 11 JAN – 8 FEB 2014 ShugoArts, Tokyo http://shugoarts.com/
Rieko Hidaka 14 DEC 2013 – 25 JAN 2014 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/