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 >
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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 >
Critical Fieldwork 18
How to abandon Japan: ‘Yasuo Kuniyoshi from the Fukutake Collection’ at the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art This exhibition of works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art is extensive, ranging from anti-Japanese campaign posters created duringView More >
Dan Cameron resigns from Prospect New Orleans
Dan Cameron has announced he is resigning as director of Prospect New Orleans, the international biennial he launched in 2008. Cameron’s announcement coincided with the Oct 22 opening ceremony of Prospect’s second edition, which had been delayed a year dueView More >
Prospect.2 marches in to New Orleans
Lorraine O’Grady – Art Is. . . (Troup Front) (1983/2009), digital C-print, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. After financial uncertainty necessitated a year’s delay, the second edition of the New Orleans international contemporary art biennialView More >