Pimping Rides the Bosozoku Way The Saturday night silence of a sleepy suburban neighborhood is shattered by a sudden, exploding chorus of exhaust pipes. Engines rev with a deafening vroom and horns perform an endless looping melody, in a call-and-responseView More >
INTIMATE BUT PUBLIC A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Sun Xun – Stills from The New China (2008), animation video, 15 min 19 sec. Courtesy the artist and ShanghArt. Dear HUO, Nice to read your latest contributionView More >
Vasif Kortun on the balance between institutional evolution and diversity In recent years I have been involved in a series of interviews with architects, curators, and brilliant, quirky unorthodox museum professionals such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kathy Halbreich, Marie-Claude BeaudView More >
Shusaku Arakawa has passed away. I had the opportunity to meet the artist, who was known professionally outside of Japan by his surname, several times over the course of my career. In the 1980s while I was running the ICAView More >
Louise Bourgeois inside Articulated Lair (Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York) in 1986. Photo Peter Bellamy, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Louise Bourgeois has died at the age of 98. She was a rare artist who literally lived through theView More >
Photo Nobuyoshi Araki. Kazuo Ohno was a miraculous Butoh dancer and living embodiment of the idea that existence is the weakened body of non-being. A progenitor of Butoh along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno lived until the age of 103 andView More >
Judy Annear on the paranormal art of Takayuki Yamamoto and exonemo In the catalogue for the exhibition she organized in 2007 at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, “All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art,” curator Mami Kataoka wrote that one ofView 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 >
Dan Cameron Compares Two Currents in the History of Performance Art Two concurrent exhibitions in the New York area – Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art and Carolee Schneemann’s “Within and Beyond the Premises”View More >
BEGINNINGS, BEGINNINGS, BEGINNINGS A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru, Thanks so much for your message and many congratulations on your Lyon Biennale. Since your last letter ART iT ceased its print publication and has becomeView More >
To Whom Does Art Belong? On the forced resignation of Fram Kitagawa (Part I) As I write, the forced resignation this March of Fram Kitagawa as director at the Niigata City Art Museum, a position he assumed in 2007 afterView More >
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