5.15 – 7.19 Artsonje Center (Seoul) Things of Friendship 2000- An exhibition tracing the transformations in Oh Inhwan’s experimental art through a body of work that includes new video and installation pieces. Rooted in social and cultural criticism, Oh usesView More >
The latest monograph on Thai film director and more recently acclaimed contemporary artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul is now available. The volume covers all films directed by Apichatpong. Filmmuseum Synema Publikationen Vol. 12 2009/Vienna Editor: James Quandt 256 pages/245 color plates, textView More >
5.14 – 7.2 Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York) Celebrating Shichi-go-san, a gala day for girls at ages three and seven, 2001 Gelatin silver print, image 14 x 14″ / paper 16 x 20″ Signed, titled, editioned and dated in pencilView More >
5.13 – 8.2 The Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne) A survey of more than 50 paintings and drawings by this significant urban Aboriginal artist who deploys potent symbolism. (Natalie King) http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/art_exhibitions_detail.aspx?view=147&category=current
Channeling the myriad contradictions of reality into their art Here are two artists who by their own admission do nothing to stress their Tokyo identity. Even so, the city is indelibly imprinted on their art: perhaps because they search forView More >
This autumn will see current San Diego Museum of Art executive director Derrick R. Cartwright assume the role of director at the Seattle Art Museum. Cartwright holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, and specializes in North American artView More >
5.7 – 6.27 Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland) Bicycle Repair Signals, 2009 16 digital prints on color photographic paper 246.4×424.2cm The Vietnamese-American artist returns to Vietnam’s street life with photo collages and installations. The work is bare, finding a more conceptualView More >
Kimura Ihei Award winner Honma Takashi is to run a workshop at the main Aoyama Book Center store in Tokyo. Using his book Tanoshii shashin – Yoi ko no tame no shashin kyoshitsu (Fun with photos: a photography class forView More >
4.4 – 6.21 Casula Powerhouse (Sydney) Dinh Q. Lê The Penal Colony: A Mapping of the Mind, 2008 4 channel video installation Courtesy the artist and Casula Powerhouse Even taking a seemingly innocuous look back decades after a conflict onView More >
3.9 – 9.9 Asia Society (New York) The first US museum showing of Yang Fudong’s masterly Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, a five-part black-and-white video referencing the legendary Seven Sages, a group of third-century Chinese intellectuals who distanced themselvesView More >
Isolation bound to the universe Text: Sumiyoshi Chie Portrait: Nagare Satoshi A universe of elastic fabric stretched tight in every direction, unhampered by the laws of gravity. Relax your body and trust your instincts and you’ ll find there aView More >
2008.11.11 – 2009.2.22 Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) by Michael Fitzgerald Vernon Ah Kee, Who let the dogs out (detail), 2008 Applied vinyl, Site-specific work for Contemporary Australia: Optimism Courtesy the artist On 13 February 2008, Australia’s newly elected PrimeView More >