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 theView More >
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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 lateView 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,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 announcedView 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 toView 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 strikesView 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 speakingView 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,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 AView More >
WRITER’S BLOCK
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 >
Opening/Closing this week (10.18-24)
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 >