Art Basel Hong Kong 2014 15 MAY – 18 MAY 2014 https://www.artbasel.com/en/Hong-Kong Sun Xun (ShanghART) at Encounters Kishio Suga (Tomio Koyama Gallery) at Encounters Gallery Koyanagi: Kouichi Tabata La croix-gantée (2002-04). Gallery SIDE 2: Fumito Urabe Ota Fine Arts: InstallationView More >
Daan van Golden: Made in Tokyo 27 APR – 1 JUN 2014 MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo http://www.misakoandrosen.com/
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 15) The decontamination of land and art II Shuji Akagi – 20130106 Fukushima City Concert Hall (2013) Shuji Akagi is a former painter. Actually, he is still an artist, although he noView More >
Provoke and Con-pora V: Shigeo Gocho Self and Others Reconsidered In my opinion only one individual, Shigeo Gocho, strikes me as standing out in this period as a representative of the theatrical first-generation post-modernist type. It would be impossible toView More >
THE BALLAD OF ECHO AND NARCISSUS By Andrew Maerkle THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979 (2012), HD video installation, 20 min. All images: Courtesy Elizabeth Price and MOTINTERNATIONAL, London and Brussels. Based in London, Elizabeth Price is known for her multimediaView More >
The artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yasumasa Morimura, unveiled a detailed list of participating artists in his exhibition at a press conference at the Yokohama Museum of Art on Apr 22. Morimura announced the names of 55 newView More >
Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers 22 APR – 1 JUN 2014 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo http://www.momat.go.jp/ Marcel Broodthaers. Installation view Ana Torfs Du mentir-faux (2000) Akram Zaatari Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (2010) AnriView 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 >