IV. Wallfuckin’, Revisited Monica Bonvicini on the necessity of taking risks. Wallfuckin’ (1995/96), b/w video on monitor, sound, amplifier, speakers, drywall panels, aluminum studs, bricks and mortar, white paint, door, 250 x 310 x 330 cm, duration 60 min. AllView More >
Ai Weiwei – Installation view of Divina Proportione (2010) at Lisson Gallery booth. All images: Photo ART iT. Amid anxiety over Greece’s debt crisis and its potential repercussions for the eurozone, the 2011 edition of the Frieze Art Fair officiallyView More >
Rendering for proposed renovation of the Polytechnical Museum, Moscow. Courtesy junya.ishigami+associates. Emerging Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been selected to lead the renovation of Moscow’s Polytechnical Museum, it was announced Oct 14. Ishigami’s proposal includes expanding the museum’s exhibition spaceView More >
Installation view of Work (Eau) (1956/2010) in “Il gruppo Gutai,” Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, 2010-11. Photo ART iT. The abstract painter and former member of the seminal Gutai group of postwar avant-garde artists, Sadamasa Motonaga, died Oct 3 at hospitalView More >
The curator and director of Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum, Charles Esche, is one of two laureates for the European Cultural Foundation’s Routes Princess Margriet Award, it was announced Oct 13. Named in honor of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, who wasView More >
III. Built to Ride Monica Bonvicini on quotation as critique and the breakdown of language. We Finally Built Walls (2010), wooden structure, 30 safety glass panels, black enamel color, 398 x 983 x 7.3 cm; photo Nils Klinger. All images:View More >
“Rise and Fall and New Works” September 10 – October 15, 2011 Wako Works of Art, Tokyo Installation view of Rise and Fall (2009) at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2011. Photo ART iT. An overview of recent works byView More >
In advance of London’s Frieze Art Fair, local powerhouse gallery White Cube has unveiled a massive new institutional-scale venue on Bermondsey Street, proximal to Tate Modern and the Design Museum. Complementing already existing sites in Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard,View More >
II. Group Erotics Aernout Mik discusses the erotics of sameness and collective emotions. Top: Exterior view of “Citizens and Subjects,” Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007; photo Victor Nieuwenhuis. Bottom: Installation view of Training Ground (2007) in “CitizensView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 1) The Runit Dome, Fukushima, and the Lucky Dragon In the summer of 2004, around the same time as now when the singing of the cicadas was intense, a certain exhibition openedView More >
II. I believe in the skin Monica Bonvicini discusses fetishism and the act of destroying her own works. Hammering Out (an old argument) (1998), video color projection, sound, amplifier, two speakers, 18 min 45 sec. All images: Courtesy Monica BonviciniView More >
ART OF UPHEAVAL: 1924 By Natsuko Odate All images unless otherwise noted: Performance still from 1924 at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2011. Courtesy Miwa Yanagi. Best known as a photographer addressing images of feminity in a male-orientedView More >