Isa Genzken (Galerie Daniel Buchholz) Jim Lambie (Modern Institute) Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (Galleria Massimo De Carlo) Rob Pruitt (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise) Andy Warhol Big Retrospective Painting, 1979 (Bruno Bischofberger AG)
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Ando Tadao (center) Sugimoto Hiroshi Stylized Sculpture and Maurizio Cattelan All Murakami Takashi My Lonesome Cowboy, Milk and Hiropon Huang Yong Ping A Football Match of June 14th, 2002
Venice Biennale 2009: Fari Mundi / Making Worlds
Michelangelo Pistoletto Seventeen Less One Liu Ding Liu Ding’s Store Fang Lijun 2008.12.31
Venice Biennale 2009: national pavilions
Bruce Nauman, United States Elmgreen & Dragset et al., Denmark and Nordic Countries Roman Ondak, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic Yanagi Miwa, Japan
Signs of a market recovery: Art Basel 2009
Art 40 Basel, the world’s largest art fair, held in the Swiss city of Basel, kicked off on June 8 with the opening of the Art Unlimited section. With the art market in the doldrums since autumn, ahead of theView More >
New venue for Design Miami/ Basel 2009
Starting this year, Design Miami/ Basel will move to Hall 5 of the Basel exhibition complex, the same venue as Art Basel. VIP previews by invitation only kicked off on June 8. These featured a comprehensive collection of designer furniture,View More >
Giappone @ Venezia
The Japanese pavilion at Venice, a renowned piece of architecture in its own right, is to be transformed into a tent. Meanwhile an historic building on the Grand Canal will be reborn as an art museum, with one of theView More >
Yanagi Miwa
Themes of life and death, past and future, everyday and festive. A drive to produce art for the next generation. Photo Nagare Satoshi We spoke to the artist selected to represent Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale about her approachView More >
Ando Tadao and Sugimoto Hiroshi in conversation
Creating an alternative world: What is the ideal art museum architecture? An architect who’s designed numerous art museums and a contemporary artist who brought us the photographic series Architecture and who’s recently branched out into design. Here, these two creatives,View More >
Friends of the arts: Hermes
‘The maison must be constantly filled with art’ Hermes, a company dedicated to the manufacture of high-quality goods by outstanding craftsmen, has grown to become one of the world’s leading luxury brands. In this issue we explore the company’s artView More >
Aoyama Satoru
Stitches in time Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Aoyama Satoru’s astonishing embroideries made using an old sewing machine are frequently described as indistinguishable from paintings. In the intricate detail of his works, invariably one glimpses a more conceptual sideView More >
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Navigating the future Text: Onishi Wakato Photo Ikeda Masanori “The question is how best to navigate the imminent future, in terms of both plans and the qualities of materials.” When Nishizawa Ryue uttered these words, I felt as though IView More >