On Oct 26 in Tokyo, the Japanese government announced that architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake are among this year’s seven inductees to the Order of Culture, and that photographer Eiko Hosoe is among this year’s 17 newView More >
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Naoya Hatakeyama: Part III
III. Such a Cloven Sensation Naoya Hatakeyama explains his first attraction to photography. Blast #12022 (2005), C-print, mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm. Courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. ART iT: We were just discussing the idea of “absolute” photographyView More >
A LIBRARY OF IMAGES
Dan Cameron on his personal Image Archive and its role in his curatorial practice Courtesy Dan Cameron. Most curators are, at their core, collectors of a sort, and recently I have decided to come to terms with the fact thatView More >
Sora Kim
October 2 to December 5, 2010 Atelier Hermès, Seoul Installation view of Sora Kim at Atelier Hermès, Seoul, 2010. All images: Courtesy the artist and Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Sora Kim is best known for works from the late 1990s andView More >
No. 4: Purgatory, Thai-Style
Day Trip to Hell All photos © Kyoichi Tsuzuki Hell is not a place many people want to visit. One could even say it has a slight image problem, namely that billions of members of the human race, over hundreds,View More >
Opening/Closing this week (10.25-31)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week “By Day, By Night” 10.25 – 1.3 Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai Gabriel Orozco 10.26 – 11.30 PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul Kim Eun Kyoung 10.27 – 11.14 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Karl Antao: “Couple of Differences” 10.28View More >
Prizes round out Paris art week
Installation view of works by Morag Keil in the booth of Frankfurt’s Galerie Neue Alte Brücke at the Lafayette Sector in FIAC, Paris, 2010. Photo ART iT. FIAC’s Lafayette Prize was awarded to artist Morag Keil, it was announced inView More >
Frieze runs hot and cold in London
All photos: ART iT Open to the public from Oct 14-17 in London, this year’s Frieze Art Fair was a more sober affair than years past, with fewer visitors from the US and some continental collectors apparently electing to skipView More >
FIAC puts Paris back on market map
The Grand Palais, Paris, one of FIAC’s principle venues. All photos: ART iT. The 34th edition of France’s FIAC art fair opened to the public in Paris Oct 21 amid escalating resentment towards France’s Sarkozy regime and nationwide strikes affectingView More >
Cerith Wyn Evans: Part II
II. The Seated Queen Cerith Wyn Evans on the slippages between poetics and politics. Installation view of the exhibition “Bubble Peddler” at Kunsthaus Graz, 2007. Photo Lackner, © the artist, courtesy Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. ART iT: We were just speaking about theView More >
Naoya Hatakeyama: Part II
II. The Strange Gift Naoya Hatakeyama on the birth of art and the ‘absoluteness’ of the amateur photograph. Above: Ciel Tombé #4414 (2007). Below: Ciel Tombé #4511 (2007). Both: Lambda print, 49 x 122 cm. Courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.View More >
No. 18
FREEDOM ON EARTH: METABOLISM, FAVELA, YANGJIANG GROUP A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist The Yangjiang Group headquarters. © the artists. Dear HUO, I enjoyed very much reading your comments on Metabolism, and especially Damisch’s A Theory ofView More >