Video WallPaik By Barbara London A version of this text previously appeared in the publication The Electronic Super Highway – Travels with Nam June Paik (Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, and Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, 1994). The author has revisitedView More >
Installation view of Ai Weiwei’s Cube Light (2008) at Misa Shin Gallery, 2010. Photo ART iT. In recent years Tokyo has seen an influx of young galleries focusing on a new generation of Japanese artists. While certainly new, the latestView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Chen Wenling: “The Suspense” 11.15 – 28 Today Art Museum, Beijing Guo Hongwei, Yuko Murata and Karen Seapker: “Recent paintings and watercolors” 11.17 – 1.28 James Cohan Gallery Shanghai Liu Xiaodong: “Hometown Boy” 11.17 –View More >
Constant Traveler By Frances Arikawa Cover art for Sleeper Wakes, released December 2009. In an exclusive interview, ART iT talks with groundbreaking Techno producer and DJ Jeff Mills about his wide-ranging body of work. After rising to prominence in theView More >
Four essays on art and blindness. By Aveek Sen I By God! if wommen hadde writen stories. – Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales. In the early years of the 1810s, the dusk of the firstView More >
German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been awarded the 8th Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation announced in New York on Nov 5. Established in 1996, the prize includes USD 100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum inView More >
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part II) Christine Furuya-Gössler Mémoires 1978-1985 (1997) presents in chronological order from the time Furuya met her until her death photographs of “Christine” – who by then had become a categorical point of singularity –View More >
Viewing the Setouchi International Art Festival (Part I) Shodoshima. Photo Osamu Nakamura. From July to October this year seven islands – Naoshima, Teshima, Shodoshima, Ogijima, Megijima, Oshima, Inujima – at the eastern end of Japan’s Inland Sea played host toView More >
The Serpentine Gallery has outbid two other competitors for the rights to convert a heritage-protected building in Kensington Gardens into a new gallery space, it was announced in London on Nov 1. The move will almost double the Serpentine’s currentView More >
All images: Still from Abstract Reading (2010), video, black-and-white, 24 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist and Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Abstract Reading (2010) is part of a cycle of four new video works that I have made for my currentView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Nalini Malani: “Remembering Mad Meg, 2007” 11.1 – 30 Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai Nalini Malani: “Splitting the other” 11.1 – 30 Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai Platform 2010 “Projected Image” 11.3 – 19 Artsonje Center, SeoulView More >
Using one of his paintings as a table cloth, artist Lee Kit drinks Cinzano vermouth and smokes in the private room at ShugoArts during the opening of his exhibition “Well, That’s Just a Chill,” Oct 30, 2010. Photo ART iT.