Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Roni Horn 8.31 – 9.26 Kukje Gallery (Space 2) “Trickster Makes this World” 8.31 – 11.21 Nam June Paik Art Center (Gyeonggi-do) Kang Hong-goo: “The House” 9.1 – 10.1 One and J. Gallery (Seoul) SubodhView More >
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Junya Ishigami wins Golden Lion at Venice
junya.ishigami+associates – Architecture as air: study for château la coste (2010), installation view in the Arsenale, 12th Venice Architecture Biennale. All images: Photo Yasuhiro Takagi for ART iT. Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been awarded the Golden Lion forView More >
Inaugural Aichi Triennale opens in Nagoya
Yayoi Kusama – Inochi no ashiato (2010), installation view at the Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya. On August 21, the inaugural Aichi Triennale officially opened to the public in Nagoya. Taking the theme “Arts and Cities” and directed by AkiraView More >
Opening/Closing this week (8.23-29)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week “Art Forum Hungary” 8.24 – 9.5 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai “Powerhouse” 8.24 – 9.19 Gallery Hyundai Gangnam Space (Seoul) Choy Ka Fai: “The Lang Fang Chronicles” 8.26 – 9.26 Singapore Art Museum “SeeView More >
Yokohama Triennale to return for fourth edition in 2011
Considered one of Japan’s premier international contemporary art events, the Yokohama Triennale will be returning for a fourth edition in 2011, it has been confirmed. In an August 18 press conference, the City of Yokohama unveiled initial plans for theView More >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 9
Chaos, Destruction, Recurring Chaosmos – Beyond the ‘Hametsu*Lounge’ Installation view of “Hametsu*Lounge” (2010) at Nanzuka Agenda Shibuya. Courtesy Nanzuka Underground. Following on from my review of the recent “Chaos*Lounge” exhibition at Takahashi Collection Hibiya in Part 6 ofView More >
FREE MATTHEW BARNEY!
Dan Cameron on the non-distribution of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster cycle Photo illustration by ART iT. A few weeks ago, an art cinema in downtown Manhattan held a public screening of the complete Matthew Barney Cremaster cycle. While IView More >
The Resistance of Cinema
By Trond Lundemo Photo illustration by ART iT. Seemingly, one has always spoken of the end of cinema. Even one of the main inventors of the apparatus, Louis Lumière, saw that it was “without a future,” and withView More >
Opening/Closing this week (8.16-22)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week “Stadt am Rande – New Media Arts of Transmediale, Berlin” 8.16 – 28 Today Art Museum (Beijing) Rhys Lee 8.17 – 9.4 Jan Murphy Gallery (Queensland) Caroline Rothwell 8.19 – 9.11 Tolarno Galleries (Melbourne) KeiichiView More >
Critical Fieldwork 9
Not Identical, but the Same: Yuuki Matsumura’s ‘Almost-Dead Sculpture’ Yuuki Matsumura – Untitled (2009), set of three aluminum sheets, 30 x 65 x 45 cm, each. Let’s begin with the dualism of “things that can be reproduced anyView More >
‘Dispositif’ Theory: Returning to the Movie Theater
By Olga Bryukhovetska What is Dispositif? The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a key term in late Foucault that first appeared in his History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976) to replace the use of “discursive formation,”View More >
Opening/Closing this week (8.9-15)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Paula Sengupta: “Rivers of Blood” 8.10 – 9.10 Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai) Stephen Vitiello: “The Birds” 8.11 – 9.12 Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) Jenny Watson / Nell 8.12 – 9.4 Roslyn Oxley9View More >