The architect Kiyonori Kikutake died Dec 26, 2011, at a hospital in Tokyo due to heart failure, it was reported Jan 5. He was 83 years old. One of the founders of Japan’s avant-garde Metabolist architecture group, formed in 1960View More >
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Simon Starling: Interview
PROJECT FOR A MASQUERADE (HIROSHIMA) By Natsuko Odate Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) (2010–11), with hand-carved Noh mask for the character Kichiji the Gold Merchant/James Bond in foreground and, from left to right in background, masks for the Hat Maker’sView More >
Lieko Shiga
The Resistant Photograph: A Day with Lieko Shiga By Aveek Sen Angry Lily (2007), from the series “Canary.” Image © and courtesy Lieko Shiga. I had always felt that somewhere in the depths of my photography there had to beView More >
Things Worth Remembering 2011: Index
2011 will be entered into the annals as a year of historic convulsions. In terms of citizens and governments, society and art, media and spectacle, throughout the year numerous themes came and went, and then after disappearing, reemerged once more.View More >
Simon Starling: Artist Talk
Excerpted and adapted from an artist talk by Simon Starling at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, January 22, 2011: Installation view of Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) (2010–11) at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. All images:View More >
Things Worth Remembering 2011: ART iT Editors
Over the past 12 months, we at ART iT have gone from considering art as text with Danh Vo and Miranda July, and art as education with Wong Hoy Cheong and Toyo Ito, to thinking about approaches to locality withView More >
Things Worth Remembering 2011: Erimi Fujihara
Erimi Fujihara is an art critic, writer and translator based in Tokyo. What follows are her Things Worth Remembering of 2011: Asked about my Things Worth Remembering of 2011, above all else there is the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami andView More >
Retrospect/Forecast 2011/2012: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the artistic director of the upcoming Documenta 13. In addition to preparing the exhibition, in the past year she has overseen the production of the publication series “100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”; a calendar for 2011-12 dedicatedView More >
Retrospect/Forecast 2011/2012: Roger M Buergel
Roger M Buergel is the artistic director of the Busan Biennale 2012, “Garden of Learning,” for which he is initiating a collaborative structure linking participating artists and members of the local community in Learning Councils that contribute to the realizationView More >
Sori Yanagi (1915-2011)
The prolific industrial designer Sori (Munemichi) Yanagi died Dec 25 at the age of 96, it has been reported. Born in Tokyo, Yanagi was the son of the Mingei folk art movement founder and philosopher Soetsu (Muneyoshi) Yanagi. He studiedView More >
Critical Fieldwork 19
Tracing Masanori Handa, 2007-2011 Curated by Midori Matsui, “The Door into Summer: the Age of Micropop,” held at Art Tower Mito in 2007, took a fresh look at Japanese contemporary art since 1995. Premised on the concept of a “doorView More >
Yuko Hasegawa to curate Sharjah Biennial
Yuko Hasegawa has been appointed curator of Sharjah Biennial 11, to be held in 2013, it was announced Dec 14. The chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Hasegawa has proposed an exhibition that reassesses the EurocentrismView More >