To make this list I’m bypassing most art exhibitions, because I didn’t experience 2010 as particularly memorable in terms of purely visual art experiences. However, the year was quite aesthetically memorable for collaborations between visual artists and those working inView More >
Judy Annear is Senior Curator of Photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. What follows are her “Things Worth Remembering” for 2010: Yasumasa Morimura, “A Requiem: Art on Top of the Battlefield” Unexpected Visitors Morimura’s exhibition examiningView More >
Issue 6: Primitive Technology If the medium through which an artwork is realized is a necessary condition of that work, what happens when technology makes new kinds of previously unimaginable artworks possible? Conversely, what happens to the temporal field ofView More >
October 2 to December 5, 2010 Atelier Hermès, Seoul Installation view of Sora Kim at Atelier Hermès, Seoul, 2010. All images: Courtesy the artist and Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Sora Kim is best known for works from the late 1990s andView More >
Issue 5: LITERATURE If literature is the art of the written word, it is also the art of reading. Whatever the intentions of their authors, books ranging from novels to memoirs, critical texts, political and philosophical treatises and even religiousView More >
Issue 4: ARCHITECTURE Established in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale is at once among the most prestigious architecture exhibitions in the world and yet something of an afterthought compared to its more pedigreed sibling, the Venice Art Biennale. This isView More >
Issue 3: CINEMA Cinema as activism Cinema as archive Cinema as behavior Cinema as collage Cinema as construction Cinema as duration Cinema as economy Cinema as entertainment Cinema as experience Cinema as identity Cinema as index Cinema as language CinemaView More >
Issue 2: CHINA With its extraordinary transformation over the past decade, China’s contemporary art scene has become the focus of intense international scrutiny, featured in numerous publications and surveyed by a multitude of large-scale exhibitions in cities worldwide. Corresponding toView More >
May 30, 2010 to January 23, 2011 MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome Exterior view of MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. Photo ART iT. On May 30, 11 years after its design competition held inView More >
‘The beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age’ May 12 to August 1, 2010 Multiple Venues, Sydney Paul McCarthy – Ship of Fools, Ship Adrift 2 (2010), rigid urethane foam, steel, wood and carpet, 600 x 365View More >
Thoughts on Art HK 2010 A topic that has been on my mind recently is the concept of provinciality. Often used pejoratively to describe a state of unsophistication and limited perspective, provinciality seems increasingly relevant in the current era ofView More >
Issue 1: COMMUNICATION ART iT was founded as Japan’s only bilingual contemporary art periodical in 2003, and moved to an exclusively online platform in 2009. The past year’s experience has provided the editorial staff an opportunity to think deeply aboutView More >