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 >
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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 >
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 theView 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 MinutesView 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 >