I wonder if the gentle readers of ART iT are aware of the existence of a very different sort of magazine, devoted to the photographic efforts of those with what one might call “exhibitionist” proclivities? The sort of magazine, thatView More >
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Critical Fieldwork 16
Building up to the Tokyo Art Fair: G-tokyo, Tokyo Frontline and Art Fair Tokyo Scene from G-tokyo 2011. Photo Keizo Kioku. In the last few years, February has become the month for graduation exhibitions and art fairs. Visitor numbers haveView More >
An African in Guangzhou
A unique urban ecology prompts a new look at globalization. By Naohiko Hino Photo Naohiko Hino. Extending from the interior of the mainland to the southern regions west of Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta is home to Guangzhou, China’sView More >
No. 20
URGENT IS TO TAKE A DISTANCE A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Notes on the dramatic events of the past three months Dear HUO, Thank you for your last correspondence. I’m so sorry for the long silenceView More >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 17
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 >
Scene 2 (Sod had been planted at the campus gate just passed)
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 >
No. 8: Trick Art
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 >
Allora & Calzadilla: NO COMPETITION
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 >
Shannon Ebner
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 >
Noi Sawaragi: Notes on Art and Current Events 16
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 >