Issue 8: TEXT Perhaps the most efficient means of communication yet invented by humans, text is also inherently saddled with confusion and contradiction. When commentators wring their hands about contemporary knowlege spinning out of control with the circulation of virallyView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Artexpress 2011 2.9 – 4.10 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Munkao: “The Feng Shui Show” 2.10 – 3.3 Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Tony Clark / Lindy Lee 2.10 – 5.5 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,View More >
You Are Doing Good My Dear By Andrew Maerkle Concept sketch for Eleven Heavy Things (2009/10). All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Miranda July. Documentation of an email correspondence with Miranda July, January 1-20, 2011, compiled into interview format: ARTView More >
The Patience of Materials By Andrew Maerkle and Natsuko Odate Installation view of the exhibition “Perfect Moment” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2011. Photo Keizo Kioku, courtesy Yutaka Sone and David Zwirner, New York. Yutaka Sone is best knownView More >
In advance of our interview with Yutaka Sone, the editors of ART iT were asked to submit a list of questions for the artist. Sone, in turn, transformed the list of questions into a space for artistic intervention, modeling hisView More >
Cultural Boys, Saigon, 1962, from the installation “Good Life” at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2007. Courtesy Danh Vo and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. (Cruising) ART iT: Who do you stay with in Pacific Palisades? DV: I stay with this American guyView More >
‘Too Far to See’ January 21 to March 20, 2011 Yokohama Museum of Art God Bless America (2002), video, 8 min 18 sec. In 2004, Tadasu Takamine’s video Kimura-san was preemptively removed from the group exhibition “Non-Sect Radical Contemporary PhotographyView More >
Contemporary art fairs have turned up in seemingly every major metropolis across the developed world in recent years, so it was perhaps an inevitability that someone would attempt to expand the model to the Internet. Now, with the Jan 22View More >
Interior Homelands: Anish Kapoor in Mumbai and Delhi By Aveek Sen My Red Homeland (2003), wax and oil-based paint, hydraulic motor, steel block. Courtesy Anish Kapoor and Lisson Gallery, London. In Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, among the little stories about theView More >
Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part I) JP-22 08 (2005), type C print, 50.2 x 61.1 cm. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. Digital photography has routinely been discussed as a pair-concept alongside analog photography, whichView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week “The Mundane World – Jiri Straka’s Ink Painting Exhibition” 1.17 – 22 Today Art Museum, Beijing [Art fair] India Art Summit 1.20 – 23 http://www.indiaartsummit.com/default.aspx Nino Sarabutra: “Live, Love & Let Die” 1.20 – 2.20View More >
Artist Aki Sasamoto gives a site-specific lecture and performance at the University of Tokyo, “Embodiment and Language,” in collaboration with professor Takashi Ikegami, lecturer on complex systems and artificial life, January 14, 2011. Photo ART iT.