Daniel Buren – Installation view of Autour du retour d’un détour (1988) in Art Unlimited at the 42nd edition of the Art Basel art fair, 2011. Photo ART iT. The international art fair Art Basel launched its 42nd editionView More >
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Scene 2 (Sod had been planted at the campus gate just passed)
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the second in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 2.1 Sod had been planted at the campus gate just passed,View More >
54th Venice Biennale
54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale ILLUMInations June 4 – November 27, 2011 Multiple venues, Venice Jack Goldstein – The Jump (1978), 16mm film, colour, silent, 26 sec. All Images: Photo ART iT. Entitled “ILLUMInations” and organizedView More >
No. 8: Trick Art
Learning a lesson from ‘trick art’ Taking my first day off for a while – and deciding a soak in a hot spring would be just the ticket – I jumped in the car and headed for theView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Index
Pipilotti Rist – Non voglio tornare indietro (Ospedale) (2011), video projection on veduta oil painting “Anonymous Venetian Master (Apollonio Domenichini?): Veduta with Canal Grande with Santa Maria di Nazareth, Santa Lucia and Scuola dei Nobili,” Museum Langmatt, Stiftung Langmatt SidneyView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Selected Representations
Combing through press releases, mining contacts and reviewing advance publications, the editors of ART iT have sought out the most promising national representations planned for the 54th Venice Biennale. This is a year for bold, ambitious projects that equally combineView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Zarina Hashmi (India)
Installation view of Home is a Foreign Place (1999) in “Everybody Agrees: It’s About to Explode,” Indian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, 2011. Portfolio of 36 woodcuts with Urdu text printed in black on Kozo paper, mounted onView More >
Allora & Calzadilla: NO COMPETITION
Dan Cameron previews Allora & Calzadilla’s US Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Installation view of Track and Field (2011) outside the US Pavilion at the Giardini, Venice, 2011. All images: Photo ART iT. The choice of AlloraView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Navin Rawanchaikul (Thailand)
Navin Rawanchaikul at his studio in Chiang Mai. Photo ART iT While many artists use the Venice Biennale as a platform to critique, parody or invert expressions of national identity, Navin Rawanchaikul is the very embodiment of just suchView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Dora García (Spain)
From “The Inadequate,” Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain, and currently based in Brussels, Dora García uses live actions, institutional space and online platforms to explore the dynamics between performance and spectatorship.View More >
54th Venice Biennale: Yael Bartana (Poland)
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, YaelView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Birdhead (ILLUMInations)
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,View More >