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 >
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 ofView More >
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 herView More >
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 >
‘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 >
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 >
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 >
No.1: The staff https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/ro9baVtZumc61zBIfEYJ/ No.2: Contemporary ‘hot spring’ art museum https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/g9HEQDCGvTedNVR4l3oZ/ No.3: Announcing the results of our ‘unsolicited proposal’ selection! (Round 1) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/RgBblqtL2My70znPcC5i/ No.4: Announcing the results of our ‘unsolicited proposal’ selection! (Round 2) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/BMSOYrQoRsAZ9ud06Dgq/ No.5: Announcing the results ofView More >
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Shimabuku Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Pulse Room, 2006 Funakoshi Katsura Suzuki Hiraku GENGA (001-900), 2008 Yamamoto Motoi 100 Labyrinths, 2009
A correspondence between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru Two star curators who’ve worked together on exhibitions such as Cities on the Move, and have each presented a stream of epoch-making shows on cities, culture and life; two minds ceaselesslyView More >
2009.6.7-11.22 Giardini (Gardens) and Arsenale (national shipyards of the Venetian Republic era), Venice by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) The theme for this Biennale is ‘Making Worlds’. Artistic director Daniel Birnbaum has said this was inspired by Nelson Goodman’s Ways ofView More >
Crossing genres with ease Text: Kunisaki Susumu Carsten Nicolai came to Japan in December on a live tour for his label raster-noton. 2008 also saw his installation invertone put on display at ICC, and Nicolai himself readily acknowledges his affectionView More >