Production photo from Mur i wieża (Wall and Tower) (2009). Photo Magda Wunsche & Samsel. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Currently living between Berlin and Tel Aviv, Yael BartanaView More >
From Welcome to Birdhead World Again in Tokyo 2011 – What we take before, now, and in the future is all the same. All images: Courtesy the artists. Established by the artists Ji Weiyu and Song Tao in 2004, BirdheadView More >
Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki celebrates his 71st birthday at the Piramide Building in Roppongi on May 25, 2011. Photo ART iT.
Abdulla Al Saadi – Naked Sweet Potato (2000-10), detail, engravings on rock. Photo Mohamed Somji. Based in Istanbul where he is research director of the newly established cross-disciplinary organization SALT, Vasif Kortun is curator of the UAE Pavilion at theView More >
Dayanita Singh – From “File Room” (2011), pigment print, 60 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, and Nature Morte, New Delhi. The artistic director of the 54th Venice Biennale, Bice Curiger is curator of Kunsthaus Zürich, co-founderView More >
Installation view of the French Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, “Chance,” by Christian Boltanski, with kinetic installation The Wheel of Fortune in foreground and the interactive multimedia work Be New in background. All images: Photo Didier Plowy In JulyView More >
PHOTOGRAPHY AS THINKING By Judy Annear The electric comma (A language of exposures) (2011), 28 type-C photographs, 345.4 x 718.8 cm overall. All images: Courtesy Shannon Ebner and Wallspace Gallery, New York. The Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner uses photographyView More >
This article has been updated with additional information, 5/24. Following an almost six-month-long search, Hong Kong’s Para/Site Art Space has appointed a new executive director/curator, ART iT has confirmed. Founded in 1996, the nonprofit independent art organization will introduce incomingView More >
Selection of wall texts from the exhibition “Real Times” by the artist group Chim↑Pom at Mujin-to Production, Tokyo, May 20-25. Apologies for image quality. Photo ART iT. 100 KIAI / 気合い１００連発 Radiation-exposed Flower Harmony / 被曝花ハーモニー Never Give Up Japanese DogView More >
Installation view of the exhibition “Real Times” by the artist group Chim↑Pom at Mujin-to Production, Tokyo, May 20-25. Foreground, left: Radiation-exposed Flowers Harmony (all works 2011), arrangement of flowers collected from Fukushima, in collaboration with Junichi Kanizaki; Background: 100 KIAIView More >
The sublime and the everyday – Chelfitsch: The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise Chelfitsch – Performance still of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (2008) at Kanagawa Arts Theatre, February 1, 2011. Photo Kikuko Usuyama. When I triedView More >
Naked Photography II: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Kirikae’ In my previous column, based on the fact that in his recent solo exhibitions at BLD Gallery and ShugoArts Takuma Nakahira had abandoned the presentation method of showing photographs in pairs, I wrote theView More >