Kuninosuke Matsuo and the Yomiuri Independent Exhibitions (Part I) From fall 2010 through May this year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has held a series of two exhibitions of works from its collection titled “MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963: Days ofView More >
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the second in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 2.1 Sod had been planted at the campus gate just passed,View More >
Learning a lesson from ‘trick art’ Taking my first day off for a while – and deciding a soak in a hot spring would be just the ticket – I jumped in the car and headed for the Nasu-Shiobara areaView More >
Dan Cameron previews Allora & Calzadilla’s US Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Installation view of Track and Field (2011) outside the US Pavilion at the Giardini, Venice, 2011. All images: Photo ART iT. The choice of Allora & CalzadillaView More >
PHOTOGRAPHY AS THINKING By Judy Annear The electric comma (A language of exposures) (2011), 28 type-C photographs, 345.4 x 718.8 cm overall. All images: Courtesy Shannon Ebner and Wallspace Gallery, New York. The Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner uses photographyView More >
The sublime and the everyday – Chelfitsch: The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise Chelfitsch – Performance still of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (2008) at Kanagawa Arts Theatre, February 1, 2011. Photo Kikuko Usuyama. When I triedView More >
Naked Photography II: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Kirikae’ In my previous column, based on the fact that in his recent solo exhibitions at BLD Gallery and ShugoArts Takuma Nakahira had abandoned the presentation method of showing photographs in pairs, I wrote theView More >
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the first in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 1.1 (a) He tries to depict his own image, with theView More >
A deep, black hole inside of ‘me’ (Part II) In his previous column, Noi Sawaragi introduced concerns about the differences between art and theatre, presence and absence in relation to Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me, simultaneously presented at multipleView More >
Naked Photography: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Documentary’ Left to right: Images of “tactile surface layers” (2007), (2009), (2007). In photography, every common noun becomes a proper noun, every being becomes “this,” and in this thisness, or haecceity, everything becomes equivalent. If “thisView More >
Allow me first to offer my heartfelt condolences to all those suffering as a result of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami. I hope life can return to some kind of normality in a safe environment as soon as possible.View More >
A deep, black hole inside of ‘me’ (Part I) All images: Installation views of Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me (2010) at Festival/Tokyo 10. All images courtesy Festival/Tokyo 10. © Yohta Kataoka. Norimizu Ameya’s The shape of me was anView More >