This year marks the third staging of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism. With venues in both cities, this edition of the international exhibition takes ‘City Mobilization’ as its theme. Chief curator Ou Ning and his curatorialView More >
Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan Developing Posteriority Kimura Yuki’s posteriority at the Daiwa Press Viewing Room Found photographs and surrealism The found photographs are a series of ‘intriguing photographs’ the artist happened to came across amongst a stack ofView More >
Developing Posteriority: Yuki Kimura’s ‘posteriority’ at the Daiwa Press Viewing Room Found photographs and surrealism The found photographs are a series of “intriguing photographs” the artist happened to came across amongst a stack of amateur snaps that found their wayView More >
The absurd as dislocated logic, which is the only way to make sense of the world. William Kentridge, a towering presence on the arts scene known for his charcoal and pastels ‘drawings in motion’, was born and raised a JewView More >
Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture 9.25 – 12.23 Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) Su Chang Citylife Really Makes your Life Better? 2008 Installation Courtesy the artist Shanghai, developing a breakneck speed since the turnView More >
Yokoo Tadanori Postwar, 1985 A talk event series at Kyoto University Art and Design staged in conjunction with War and Art IV currently underway at the university gallery. This evening Iida Takayo, curator of the four-part exhibition launched inView More >
People Playing with the Dead 2009.7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh108/index.html by Hara Hisako Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller – People Playing with the Dead 2009 Photo Nagare Satoshi, Courtesy Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery © Konoike Tomoko ThisView More >
Yto Barrada Fille aux tabourets, Casablanca 2000 Courtesy Galerie Polaris, Paris The international photography trade fair held each year in November bringing together more than 100 galleries and publishers from all over the world. Each year theView More >
Manifesto Marathon Park Nights 2008 Photo Mark Blower The fourth in the innovative series of Marathons staged each year at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Conceived by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, the first Interview Marathon (2006) involved 24 hours of interviewsView More >
10.1 – 31 Hauser & Wirth, London Et tu, Duchamp? 2009, Black bronze Courtesy the gallery In the new works presented here, Gupta moves away from composite sculptures toward objects loaded with symbolism, using commodities such as marble, bronze and steel. ForView More >
Nur Hanim Khairuddin seRANGga 2005 Malaysia is a home to myriad ethnic groups, languages, and religions. The Japan-Malaysia Video Art Exchange Program explores recent directions in Malaysian documentary films, and in the country’s video art, which is still in theView More >
9.28 – 10.12 Galerie Aube (Kyoto) AES+F LAST RIOT2 Panorama #4 2006 A series of exhibitions limelighted for its bold display of war images, one of the taboos of Japanese modern art history. Part four features works by Kusama Yayoi, Yokoo TadanoriView More >