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 >
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 announcedView More >
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 toView More >
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 strikesView More >
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 speakingView More >
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,View More >
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 AView More >
Issue 5: LITERATURE If literature is the art of the written word, it is also the art of reading. Whatever the intentions of their authors, books ranging from novels to memoirs, critical texts, political and philosophical treatises and even religiousView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Raqs Media Collective 10.20 – 11.20 Project 88, Mumbai Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski: “Incompatible Elements” 10.21 – 30 Sarah Goffman: “Trashcan Dreams” 10.21 – 30 Performance Space, NSW Tim Maguire: “Light and Water” 10.23View More >
A Subjective History of Photography Before and After Literature By Andrew Maerkle Although they rarely feature people, the photographs of Naoya Hatakeyama often evoke the grand narrative of humanity’s interaction with the environment. Like monuments once forgotten and then rediscovered,View More >
Hic et Nunc; or, The Delirium Beyond Translation By Andrew Maerkle Working effortlessly between canonical, alternative and esoteric sources, Cerith Wyn Evans draws upon a broad knowledge of literature, linguistics and even astrophysics in his conceptual art practice. At timesView More >
Six Rooms for Enrique Vila-Matas ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #3 was conducted in Tokyo and edited by ART iT in collaboration with DominiqueView More >