Co-founder in 1975 of the Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rem Koolhaas is known not only for producing designs and masterplans of radical innovation, but also for radically innovating contemporary architectural practice through his numerous publications and exhibitions.View More >
2010 CRONOCAOS 12th Venice Architecture Biennale Both: Photo Yasuhiro Takagi for ART iT. The exhibition occupies a suite of two rooms, each with a distinct character and function. The first room is a vestibule featuring a range of OMA projectsView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Shezad Dawood: “Cities of the Future” 9.24 – 10.20 Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai) Vishal K Dar: “BROWNation” 9.24 – 10.23 Gallery Espace (New Delhi) Yang Shaobin: “Blue Room” Alberto Garcia-Alix: “From where there is noView More >
A Bar-Hopping Lesson in Architectural Reality For the better part of three years now I’ve been traveling around Japan reporting on “snack” drinking establishments by the name of Limelight, as part of a series for the photographic monthly Asahi Camera.View More >
Dan Cameron reviews Massimiliano Gioni’s recently opened Gwangju Biennale Sanggil Kim – off‐line_burberry internet community (2004), C-print, 134.5 x 163.5 cm. © Sanggil Kim, courtesy PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault. Since its debut in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale has typicallyView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Bani Abidi: “Section Yellow” 9.13 – 10.11 Project 88 (Mumbai) “Linear Dimension: Contemporary Hong Kong Art” 9.14 – 10.30 GROTTO FINE ART (Hong Kong) Lee Bul 9.16 – 10.15 PKM Trinity Gallery (Seoul) Brent Harris:View More >
Anne Collier – Woman with a Camera (35mm) (2009), slide projection. © Anne Collier, courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Taking the theme “10,000 Lives,” this year’s 8th Gwangju Biennale is directed by Massimiliano Gioni, a curator at the NewView More >
Alienation Through Beautification, Engagement After Alienation By Andrew Maerkle A Facility Based on Change (2010), mixed media, 122 x 122 x 152 cm. All images: Courtesy the artist. In her mixed-media practice, New York-based artist Mika Tajima combines aspects ofView More >
By Oscar Tuazon Photo Oscar Tuazon. Our apartment building caught fire this summer. The kid below us had a fight with his dad, a fireman, so he set his bed on fire and went to school. We came home toView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week ShanghART Group Exhibition 9.6-10.21 ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai) Taipei Biennale 2010 9.7 – 11.14 Taipei Fine Arts Museum Media City Seoul 2010 9.7 – 11.17 Seoul Museum of Art Yao Jui-chung: “Honeymoon” 9.8 – 22 HanartView More >
Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London. In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first feature film, AscenseurView More >
By Andrew Maerkle The past year has seen incredible recognition for the Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA, established in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In late 2009, Sejima was named artistic director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, becomingView More >