Octavio Zaya is a writer, curator and editor based in New York since 1978. He is director of ATLANTICA journal (Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, CAAM), and curator-at-large at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain. What followsView More >
Yuka Uematsu is a Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, and was Commissioner of Tabaimo’s exhibition in the Japan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. What follows are her Things Worth Remembering for 2012: TheView More >
Chiaki Soma is the Program Director of the annual performing arts festival Festival/Tokyo. What follows are her things worth remembering for 2012: The year since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has been one in which the distance betweenView More >
I. International Exhibitions II. Solo Exhibitions III. Archives IV. Performance I. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS In 2012 there were numerous large-format international exhibitions organized across the world, from La Triennale in Paris to the 7th Berlin Biennial, the 11th Havana Biennale, ManifestaView More >
III. ARCHIVES Since the year 2000 there has been a notable increase in attempts both in Japan and beyond to review the art of the 1960s and ’70s and to uncover the works of neglected artists. As social problems causedView More >
Same-Same but Different: The Role of the Artist in the Arab World and Japan Special supplement to ART iT Zena El Khalil (on screen), Sputniko! (at right) and moderator Deena Chalabi (at left) during Session 3 of the symposiumView More >
We have received a response from artist Yoshitomo Nara to the article “Yoshitomo Nara as a Businessman” by Adrian Favell, an official blogger at ART iT. The response consists of comments on those parts of the article Nara regards asView More >
The 4th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions ‘How Physical’ February 10-26, 2012 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Carolien Teunisse and Bram Snijders [Sitd] – RE: (2010), 360°projection mapping installation. All images: Photo ART iT. ForView More >
2011 will be entered into the annals as a year of historic convulsions. In terms of citizens and governments, society and art, media and spectacle, throughout the year numerous themes came and went, and then after disappearing, reemerged once more.View More >
Over the past 12 months, we at ART iT have gone from considering art as text with Danh Vo and Miranda July, and art as education with Wong Hoy Cheong and Toyo Ito, to thinking about approaches to locality withView More >
Erimi Fujihara is an art critic, writer and translator based in Tokyo. What follows are her Things Worth Remembering of 2011: Asked about my Things Worth Remembering of 2011, above all else there is the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami andView More >
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the artistic director of the upcoming Documenta 13. In addition to preparing the exhibition, in the past year she has overseen the production of the publication series “100 Notes – 100 Thoughts”; a calendar for 2011-12 dedicatedView More >