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 >
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Critical Fieldwork 43
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 >
Elizabeth Price
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 >
Yokohama Triennale announces artist list
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 @ MOMAT
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 >
Wang Bing
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 >
Gaël Charbau
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 >
Kyoto’s PARASOPHIA 2015 announces initial artists
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 >
Carlos Garaicoa
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 >
Shigeru Ban wins 2014 Pritzker Prize
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 >
Lav Diaz
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 @ gallery αM
The Earthly Paradise Vol.7 Aki Yahata 15 FEB – 22 MAR 2014 gallery αM http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/