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 >
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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 >
Artist’s outdoor sculpture relieves winter blues
James Yamada’s The summer shelter retreats darkly among the trees (2011), at Parasol unit, London. Photo Stephen White. Commissioned by the London private gallery Parasol unit, the American artist James Yamada has designed a pavilion that can relieve the effectsView More >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 21
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 2) ji me n (ground) In his previous column, Noi Sawaragi introduced a reexamination of his concept of “the art of ground zero” by discussing the cultural resonance of the Daigo FukuryuView More >
Martin Boyce wins 2011 Turner Prize
Sculptor Martin Boyce has won the Turner Prize, it was announced Dec 5. Boyce is the third artist from Glasgow in as many years to take home Britain’s top recognition for contemporary art after Richard Wright in 2009 and SusanView More >
No. 11: Mom Art
The ticking time bomb of okan-art If outsider art inhabits one end of the spectrum away from mainstream fine art, there is another art form being lovingly nurtured at the opposite end: okan or “mom” art, as the name suggests,View More >
Anri Sala: Part II
II. Orientation, This Anri Sala discusses the choreograpy of perception in time and space. Exhibition view of “Anri Sala” at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2011, with Doldrums (2008) in foreground and the two-channel video projection After Three Minutes (2007)View More >
Barnstorming event brings international galleries to Tokyo
A Polish-led international joint cultural initiative has installed a mix of European and local galleries in unused office spaces in Tokyo’s Kyobashi neighborhood. Conceived as an antidote to the commercially driven international art fair model, Villa Tokyo opened to theView More >
Scene 3 (Gusts of wind tore at the car’s black waterproofing)
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the third in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 3.1 As gusts of wind tore at the car’s black waterproofing,View More >
Anri Sala: Part I
IN AND OUT OF ARTICULATION By Andrew Maerkle Still from Answer Me (2008). © 2011 Anri Sala, courtesy the artist; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Marian Goodman, New York; Hauser & Wirth, London, Zurich; Johnen/Schöttle, Berlin, Cologne, Munich. Anri Sala firstView More >
Tadashi Kawamata
THE RADIUS OF ACTION By Andrew Maerkle Working Progress (1996-99), work in situ, Alkmaar, The Netherlands, wood. Photo Leo van der Kleij. All images: © Tadashi Kawamata, courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris. One of Japan’s most distinguished artists,View More >
Bill Viola
BEYOND HORIZON By Andrew Maerkle Tempest (Study for The Raft) (2005), color high-definition video on flat panel display mounted on wall, duration 16 min 50 sec, screen 109 x 66 x 10.2 cm. Performers: Sheryl Arenson, Robin Bonaccorsi, Rocky Capella,View More >