Anne Collier – Woman with a Camera (35mm) (2009), slide projection. © Anne Collier, courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Taking the theme “10,000 Lives,” this year’s 8th Gwangju Biennale is directed by Massimiliano Gioni, a curator at theView More >
Alienation Through Beautification, Engagement After Alienation By Andrew Maerkle A Facility Based on Change (2010), mixed media, 122 x 122 x 152 cm. All images: Courtesy the artist. In her mixed-media practice, New York-based artist Mika Tajima combinesView More >
By Oscar Tuazon Photo Oscar Tuazon. Our apartment building caught fire this summer. The kid below us had a fight with his dad, a fireman, so he set his bed on fire and went to school. We cameView More >
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week ShanghART Group Exhibition 9.6-10.21 ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai) Taipei Biennale 2010 9.7 – 11.14 Taipei Fine Arts Museum Media City Seoul 2010 9.7 – 11.17 Seoul Museum of Art Yao Jui-chung: “Honeymoon” 9.8 – 22 HanartView More >
Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London. In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first featureView More >
By Andrew Maerkle The past year has seen incredible recognition for the Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA, established in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. In late 2009, Sejima was named artistic director of the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, becomingView More >
By Andrew Maerkle Partner in the firm SANAA, which he established with Kazuyo Sejima in 1995, Ryue Nishizawa also maintains his own individual practice, Office of Ryue Nishizawa. His built projects include the Moriyama House (Tokyo), a complex of boxyView More >
By Andrew Maerkle Junya Ishigami is widely regarded as one of Japan’s most promising young architects, a status that was reinforced by the conferral upon him of the Golden Lion for Best Project at this year’s 12th Venice Architecture Biennale,View More >
Since establishing his own practice in 2004, Sou Fujimoto has become known for innovative projects like Final Wooden House, a small bungalow made of stacked beams of lumber arranged so that the building’s architecture also functions as its furniture. OtherView More >
Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London. In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first featureView More >
THE PRODUCTION OF CLOUD A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Koo Jeong-A – Petit déj’ & quick notes (2007), felt pen on paper, 45 x 64 cm. Courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York.View More >
Issue 4: ARCHITECTURE Established in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale is at once among the most prestigious architecture exhibitions in the world and yet something of an afterthought compared to its more pedigreed sibling, the Venice Art Biennale. This isView More >