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 InView 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 EbnerView 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 View 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. WhenView 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 >
The Japan Foundation has officially released complete details on Japan’s national presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale. Located in the Giardini among other permanent pavilions, the Japanese Pavilion will be devoted this year to a solo presentation by artist Tabaimo,View More >
Making is Thinking By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of the exhibition “Making is Thinking” at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2011. Visible at right is the C-print photograph Wand 28.04.2009 (2009) by Edgar Leciejewski; at leftView More >
New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art are teaming up to ensure the continued vitality of the former’s iconic Marcel Breuer-designed building at 945 Madison Ave, it was announced May 11. The Whitney Museum isView More >
Cheyney Thompson on Art Education ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #4 was conducted in Tokyo and edited by ART iT in collaboration with CheyneyView More >
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the first in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 1.1 (a) He tries to depict his own image, with theView More >