A Bar-Hopping Lesson in Architectural Reality For the better part of three years now I’ve been traveling around Japan reporting on “snack” drinking establishments by the name of Limelight, as part of a series for the photographic monthlyView More >
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‘10,000 Lives’
Dan Cameron reviews Massimiliano Gioni’s recently opened Gwangju Biennale Sanggil Kim – off‐line_burberry internet community (2004), C-print, 134.5 x 163.5 cm. © Sanggil Kim, courtesy PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault. Since its debut in 1995, the Gwangju BiennaleView More >
Opening/Closing this week (9.13-19)
Asia-Pacific area Opening this week Bani Abidi: “Section Yellow” 9.13 – 10.11 Project 88 (Mumbai) “Linear Dimension: Contemporary Hong Kong Art” 9.14 – 10.30 GROTTO FINE ART (Hong Kong) Lee Bul 9.16 – 10.15 PKM Trinity Gallery (Seoul) Brent Harris:View More >
‘10,000 Lives’ opens in Gwangju
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 >
Mika Tajima
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 >
Busting Up French Furniture
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 >
Opening/Closing this week (9.6-12)
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 >
Thomas Demand
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 >
Architecture in Exhibition: Kazuyo Sejima
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 >
Architecture in Exhibition: Ryue Nishizawa
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 >
Architecture in Exhibition: Junya Ishigami
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 >
Architecture in Exhibition: Sou Fujimoto
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 >