New York powerhouse gallery David Zwirner is expanding to London, it was officially announced in a press release dated Mar 13. Often compared to the multinational Gagosian Gallery and London’s White Cube in terms of commercial influence and clout, ZwirnerView More >
Lines, Models and Other Illusions By Aveek Sen Installation view of TWENTY-FOUR BLASTS 2011 (2011). Courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Architects continue to think and work towards the completion of architecture. But every step closer to completion takes somethingView More >
Yoko Ono has been awarded Austria’s highest recognition for contemporary art, it was announced at a press conference Mar 2 in Vienna. Named after the expressionist painter and playwright who lived from 1886 to 1980, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize confersView More >
Ningbo History Museum, 2003-2008, Ningbo, China. Photo Lu Hengzhong. The Hangzhou-based architect Wang Shu will be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Feb 27. Principal of the firm Amateur Architecture Studio along with his wife, Lu Wenyu, WangView More >
Collage and Photography: Naruki Oshima’s New Series ‘haptic green’ (Part 2) Risaku Suzuki Mont Sainte Victoire NZP-10 (2001), type C print, 40.7 x 50.8 cm. Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi. Naruki Oshima’s “haptic green” is a series of collages each made byView More >
The 4th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions ‘How Physical’ February 10-26, 2012 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Carolien Teunisse and Bram Snijders [Sitd] – RE: (2010), 360°projection mapping installation. All images: Photo ART iT. For those whoView More >
Sarah Sze will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Feb 24. Entitled Triple Point, her project for Venice is commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Known for site-specificView More >
The Legacy of Objects By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010) at the 3rd Singapore Biennale, 2011, mixed media, dimensions variable. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, and TARO NASU, Tokyo.View More >
III. Frames of Action Tomoko Yoneda discusses art in Japan after March 11. Chrysanthemum (2011). All images: © Tomoko Yoneda, courtesy ShugoArts, Tokyo. ART iT: In your career to date you’ve shot at various locations and in different regions, andView More >
II. Antonino’s Bundle Dayanita Singh on photo editing, form and dissemination. From the series “Dream Villa” (2010). All images: © and courtesy Dayanita Singh. ART iT: We were just discussing photography in terms of breakdown, and how your images changeView More >
II. Frames of Consciousness Tomoko Yoneda on the photography of paradigm shifts. Lovers, Dunaujvaros (formerly Stalin City), Hungary (2004), C-type print, 66 x 84 cm. All images: © Tomoko Yoneda, courtesy ShugoArts, Tokyo. ART iT: We were just discussing howView More >
One of the leading representatives of post-war photography in Japan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto passed away Feb 6 at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 90-years-old. Born in San Francisco in 1921, Ishimoto lived in Japan from the age of three beforeView More >