The German artist Sigmar Polke died June 10 in Cologne at the age of 69 due to complications related to cancer, it has been reported. Born in 1941 in Oels, Lower Silesia, in what is now Poland, Polke is consideredView More >
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Remembering Arakawa (1936-2010)
Shusaku Arakawa has passed away. I had the opportunity to meet the artist, who was known professionally outside of Japan by his surname, several times over the course of my career. In the 1980s while I was running the ICAView More >
Maiko Haruki
‘possibility in portraiture’ May 14 – June 12, 2010 Taro Nasu, Tokyo whom? whose? II – 1F (2010), type C print, 51.5 x 61.7 cm (framed), edition of 8. Image © Maiko Haruki 2010, courtesy TARO NASU. Exploring the technologicalView More >
Opening/Closing this week（6.7-13）
Opening this week “On the Edge” 6.8 – 7.8 DOB Hualamphong Gallery (Bangkok) “Being There 1946: The Legacy of Teodulo Protomartir” 6.9 – 7.3 silverlens gallery (Makati City) Alfredo Esquillo Jr: “Bato Bato sa Langit” 6.9 – 7.3 Silverlens LabView More >
Opening/Closing this week（6.7-13）
Asia-Pacific area * Opening this week On the Edge 6.8 – 7.8 DOB Hualamphong Gallery（Bangkok） Being There 1946: The Legacy of Teodulo Protomartir 6.9 – 7.3 silverlens gallery（Makati City） Alfredo Esquillo Jr.: Bato Bato sa Langit 6.9 – 7.3 SilverlensView More >
Judd Foundation plans to restore, revitalize 101 Spring St
On June 3, the Judd Foundation announced the temporary closure of 101 Spring Street in New York, the historic home of artist Donald Judd (1928-94). Located on the corner of Spring and Mercer Streets in the heart of New York’sView More >
ON RECORD #1: Heman Chong
8 Rules for Writing Fiction: Heman Chong on Influence and Appropriation ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #1 was conducted and recorded using an onlineView More >
Remembering Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Louise Bourgeois inside Articulated Lair (Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York) in 1986. Photo Peter Bellamy, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Louise Bourgeois has died at the age of 98. She was a rare artist who literally lived through theView More >
Remembering Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010)
Photo Nobuyoshi Araki. Kazuo Ohno was a miraculous Butoh dancer and living embodiment of the idea that existence is the weakened body of non-being. A progenitor of Butoh along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno lived until the age of 103 andView More >
Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010)
Dancer Kazuo Ohno died June 1 in Yokohama due to respiratory failure at the age of 103, it has been reported. Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1906, Ohno was along with Tatsumi Hijikata a pioneer of post-war avant-garde Butoh dance.View More >
The Semantics of Spooning
Judy Annear on the paranormal art of Takayuki Yamamoto and exonemo In the catalogue for the exhibition she organized in 2007 at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, “All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art,” curator Mami Kataoka wrote that one ofView More >
17th Biennale of Sydney
‘The beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age’ May 12 to August 1, 2010 Multiple Venues, Sydney Paul McCarthy – Ship of Fools, Ship Adrift 2 (2010), rigid urethane foam, steel, wood and carpet, 600 x 365View More >