Art Works! The world’s largest corporate collection Assembling over 50,000 works and displaying them in its offices rather than shutting them away to gather dust in a vault somewhere: this is how the world’s largest corporate art benefactor shows its
Invitation to a creative space Since its establishment in 1847, the French jeweler and watch manufacturer Cartier has continued to produce modern jewelry that is ahead of its time. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which was founded as a
Markers of time create shared time for arts scene veterans and new talents Research/Text: ART iT 2008-2009 Protégés (from left to right): Handa Masanori, Tara June Winch, Jason Akira Somma, Nahuel Emiliano Perez Biscayart, Celina Murga, Aurelio Martínez London
The Spectacle of the Everyday A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, It has been just over three years since we started this conversation. In hindsight, the number and scope of changes that have taken place
The future of knowledge A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR, Thanks so much for your compelling letter. Immanuel Wallerstein is indeed – besides Edouard Glissant – a wonderful toolbox for our times. I’ve recently been
Obama, Crisis, Two Realities and Change A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist By crisis in a historical system I shall mean not conjunctural difficulties within a system but a structural strain so great that the only possible
Parallel realities A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR Thanks so much for your letter. I fully agree with you and Toni Negri that the new resistance is ‘in-between’. Your reference to Toni, whom we visited
In-between, and in small numbers A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks very much for your recent thoughts on the Nanomuseum. These are issues so important to our search for new forms of space for
The Nanomuseum A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru, Thanks so much for your inspiring text on Pelin and public art. Today I want to write about some issues related to my most recent exhibition, Everstill,
The Future of Public Art A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks much for your inspiring survey on the future of art. In response I’d like to share with you excerpts from an interview addressing
The Future of Art A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru Daniel Birnbaum, a close colleague and friend of mine, and one of the sharpest of our present generation of art writers, had this to say
Reinventing Biennials A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO Nice to see you again at the Venice Biennale opening earlier this month: as intense and inspiring as usual, one of those ‘hurricane moments’ we always have!