II. Roman Holiday Fischli and Weiss address the transparency of the visible world. From the series “Airports” (1987- ), C-print photograph, 160 x 225 cm. All images: © Peter Fischli/David Weiss, courtesy the artists; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; SprüthView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Chenwenji 11.30 – 12.19 CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Juul Kraijer 12.4 – 1.5 Vadehra Art Gallery（Okhla, New Delhi） Chen Shun-Chu: “On the Road” 12.4 – 1.1 IT Park Gallery, Taipei “Manga Realities: Exploring the ArtView More >
Caption for diagram of Katsuhiro Yamaguchi’s never-realized “Fire & Water Fountain Plan” as reproduced in the monograph Yamaguchi Katsuhiro 360°. Photo ART iT.
Issue 6: Primitive Technology If the medium through which an artwork is realized is a necessary condition of that work, what happens when technology makes new kinds of previously unimaginable artworks possible? Conversely, what happens to the temporal field ofView More >
Advancing Beyond Efficiency Yeondoo Jung on how the misuse of technology leads to art. CineMagician (2010), dual-channel HD video, 55 min. All images: Courtesy the artist and Kukje Gallery, Seoul. Based in Seoul, Yeondoo Jung often explores theView More >
The Techne of Schadenfreude By Andrew Maerkle Since their first collaboration in 1979, Peter Fischli and David Weiss have consistently challenged the preconditions of art as a system of historically determined conventions. From utilizing materials like sausages and clay toView More >
Video WallPaik By Barbara London A version of this text previously appeared in the publication The Electronic Super Highway – Travels with Nam June Paik (Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, and Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, 1994). The author has revisitedView More >
Installation view of Ai Weiwei’s Cube Light (2008) at Misa Shin Gallery, 2010. Photo ART iT. In recent years Tokyo has seen an influx of young galleries focusing on a new generation of Japanese artists. While certainly new, theView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Chen Wenling: “The Suspense” 11.15 – 28 Today Art Museum, Beijing Guo Hongwei, Yuko Murata and Karen Seapker: “Recent paintings and watercolors” 11.17 – 1.28 James Cohan Gallery Shanghai Liu Xiaodong: “Hometown Boy” 11.17 –View More >
Constant Traveler By Frances Arikawa Cover art for Sleeper Wakes, released December 2009. In an exclusive interview, ART iT talks with groundbreaking Techno producer and DJ Jeff Mills about his wide-ranging body of work. After rising to prominenceView More >
Four essays on art and blindness. By Aveek Sen I By God! if wommen hadde writen stories. – Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales. In the early years of the 1810s, the dusk of the firstView More >
German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been awarded the 8th Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation announced in New York on Nov 5. Established in 1996, the prize includes USD 100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum inView More >