To me, art and activism are one. Presenting one topical work after another at international shows, designing the ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium for the Beijing Olympics, while on the other hand having his blog shut down by the authorities for hisView More >
Interviews
Ai Weiwei: part 1
I’m fighting for freedom of speech. I never settle for less. I don’t engage in negotiation. >Part 2 Artist/architect/activist Ai Weiwei Presenting one topical work after another at international shows, designing the ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium for the Beijing Olympics, whileView More >
Song Dong
A mother alive even after death Currently on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Song Dong’s Waste Not installation was a joint effort with the artist’s mother, employing an immense collection of household goods she could notView More >
Kitagawa Fram: part 2
For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is held over a vast area of 760View More >
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009
Claude Lévêque In silence or in noises 2009 A chance to experience art from around the world amid natural surroundings, in quiet rural settings far from metropolitan galleries and museums. The producer of the event asserts that ‘contemporary art shinesView More >
Kitagawa Fram: part 1
General director, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is heldView More >
Takagi Masakatsu
The thing I want to savor more than anything else is the ‘source’ from which the work originates. All I really want to do is to touch it, to get truly close to it. Beautiful, fleeting images based on scenesView More >
Giappone @ Venezia
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 of theView More >
Yanagi Miwa
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 her approachView More >
Ando Tadao and Sugimoto Hiroshi in conversation
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 >