Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki celebrates his 71st birthday at the Piramide Building in Roppongi on May 25, 2011. Photo ART iT.
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54th Venice Biennale: Vasif Kortun (UAE)
Abdulla Al Saadi – Naked Sweet Potato (2000-10), detail, engravings on rock. Photo Mohamed Somji. Based in Istanbul where he is research director of the newly established cross-disciplinary organization SALT, Vasif Kortun is curator of the UAE Pavilion atView More >
54th Venice Biennale: Bice Curiger (Artistic Director)
Dayanita Singh – From “File Room” (2011), pigment print, 60 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, and Nature Morte, New Delhi. The artistic director of the 54th Venice Biennale, Bice Curiger is curator of Kunsthaus Zürich,View More >
54th Venice Biennale: Christian Boltanski (France)
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 >
Shannon Ebner
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 >
Hong Kong’s Para/Site Art Space names new director
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 >
Chim↑Pom @ Mujin-to Production Part II
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 >
Chim↑Pom @ Mujin-to Production
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 >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 16
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 >
Critical Fieldwork 15
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 >
Japan Foundation announces details of Venice pavilion
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 >
Zoë Gray
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 >