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Doryun Chong on Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist is Present’ at MoMA Since March 14 of this year, Marina Abramović has been sitting in the grand atrium inside the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, every single moment that theView More >

Vasif Kortun on the Case of the Evaporating Art Center In cities such as Istanbul, Madrid and many others, the disappearance of medium-scale institutions seems to have intensified in recent years. Euphemistically called “art centers,” “ICAs,” “kunstvereins” and so on,View More >

Resistance is Futile: The Pulling Power of the ‘Hostess Suit’ On business in the provinces, unenthused about drinking alone in some cramped, cheap hotel room, I hesitantly open the door of a local “snack” establishment. I am no longer young,View More >

Shape the paint, collage the shapes and make them form a painting Masahiro Sekiguchi’s ‘Plane B’ at Kodama Gallery Tokyo In Clyfford Still’s readymade, layered and collaged paintings (see my previous column), which call to mind walls upon which layersView More >

‘Chaos*Lounge 2010’ – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of “Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya” On April 16, artist and art critic Yohei Kurose gave a lecture in conjunction with Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI University (at the Kakai KikiView More >

Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Teppei Kaneuji’s ‘Post-Something’ at ShugoArts White paintings, cloisonnism, coffee staining, and clippings of brushstrokes and touches of paint… or in other words painterliness; and seals, figures, driftwood, pipes, and wrapping paper… or in other wordsView More >