A fugue of flowers and horses Text: Yamauchi Hiroyasu Off the coast of the US state of Georgia lies Cumberland Island, home to hundreds of once domesticated horses that over time turned wild. Roe Ethridge’s focus on this equine communityView More >
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Kaneuji Teppei
The pleasure of 1 + 1 > 2 Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi From comical yet somehow subversive works boldly combining familiar manufactured goods such as PET bottles and action figures, to a magical series wildly joining wood inView More >
Hundred Stories about Love
2009.4.29 – 8.30 (Zone 1) / 4.29 – 7.20 (Zone 2) 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa by Uchida Shinichi (ART iT) Tanikawa Shuntaro+Yamamoto Motoi in the gallery space with Yamamoto’s100 Labyrinths Photo Ikeda Hiraku, Courtesy the 21st CenturyView More >
Vision of Contemporary Art 2009
2009.3.15-30 The Ueno Royal Museum http://www.ueno-mori.org/ by Donald Eubank Nawa Kohei Catalyst #11, 2009 Vinyl acetate and polystyrene on acrylic panel One work in particular stood out at the annual Vision of Contemporary Art exhibition that displays and awardsView More >
Tse Su-Mei
Echoes between West and East Text: Yanashita Tomoko In a meadow surrounded by the Alps, a lone female plays the cello as if engaging in a dialogue with her own echo. The sound rings out beautifully. But equally memorable areView More >
Friends of the arts: Shiseido
Continually pursuing new images of beauty Shiseido has continually pursued new images of beauty that are ahead of the times. As a pioneer of corporate support of the arts in this country, over the years it has taken on partView More >
Friends of the arts: BMW
When technology and art meet Over the last 30 years, BMW, one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers, has implemented over 100 cultural support programs. Of these, the BMW Art Car Collection, which features BMW cars transformed into artworks, isView More >
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993
2009.1.2-4.18 Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing) by Maya Kóvskaya I’m not going, 1990 Courtesy the artist and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre In Ai Weiwei’s black-and-white photograph, Bleeding Protestor. Tompkins Square Park Riots, the rivulets of blood streakingView More >
Takamine Tadasu: BIG REST Gardening for the Future 1095?
2008.11.29 – 12.24 sendai mediatheque, gallery 4200 by Yamagishi Kaoru (ART iT) Big Stop, 2008 Installation view and scene from tour In a vast space pierced by massive tubular columns, an unfamiliar world titled Big Stop manifests itself. TheView More >
Friends of the arts: The Hugo Boss Prize
From Matthew Barney to Rirkrit Tiravanija Corporate support for the arts takes all manner of forms, including the collection of works, the sponsorship of exhibitions and residence programs, and the establishment of prizes. But just why and how do corporatesView More >
Subodh Gupta
Disarmingly pragmatic about the Indian art boom Text: Chaitanya Sambrani Portrait: Nawa Makiko Widely hailed as the most prominent Indian artist of his generation on the international circuit, Subodh Gupta is a representative of the new Indian artist: ambitious, worldly-wise,View More >
Michaël Borremans
A world of ‘quiet mystery’ Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi If there were such an activity as creating quietness, then Michaël Borremans’ paintings could well serve as a model. The figures in his paintings, which are depicted with aView More >