The shortlist for the UK’s largest art prize, the Artes Mundi, was announced Jan 27 by the Artes Mundi artistic director, Ben Borthwick. The seven finalists for the prize, which confers upon one winner GBP 40,000 and provides the runners-upView More >
Collage and Photography: Naruki Oshima’s New Series ‘haptic green’ (Part 1) Reflections – 0606 (2006), Lambda print mounted on Plexiglas, 120 x 123cm, edition of 5. All images: Courtesy Gallery Nomart. Having exhibited work at the International ArchitectureView More >
© 2010 NEUE ROAD MOVIES GMBH, EUROWIDE FILM PRODUCTION It is the first among the art movie world! Subject, it which director eminent scholar Wim Wenders who established the monumental achievement of the musical film in latest 3D movieView More >
“End of Photography” December 9, 2011, to January 27, 2012 Gallery Side 2, Tokyo Installation view of Steven Pippin’s “End of Photography” at Gallery Side 2, with Out of Body Experience (2010) in foreground. All images: Photo ART iT.View More >
Albania-born artist Anri Sala has been chosen to represent France at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, it was announced Jan 19. Currently based in Berlin, Sala studied video at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris inView More >
Over the past decade, the Singapore government has aggressively poured money into developing the city-state into a cultural hub for Southeast Asia and beyond, supporting new institutions and events like the Singapore Biennale and the commercial art fair Art StageView More >
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 >
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 HatView More >
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 toView More >
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 >
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. AllView More >
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 >