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2010 CRONOCAOS 12th Venice Architecture Biennale   Both: Photo Yasuhiro Takagi for ART iT.   The exhibition occupies a suite of two rooms, each with a distinct character and function. The first room is a vestibule featuring a range ofView More >

By Oscar Tuazon   Photo Oscar Tuazon.   Our apartment building caught fire this summer. The kid below us had a fight with his dad, a fireman, so he set his bed on fire and went to school. We cameView More >

Lift to the Scaffold By Judy Annear   Lift (2005), C-Print/Diasec, 190 x 150 cm. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. All images: Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London.   In 1958 Louis Malle directed his first featureView More >

By Trond Lundemo     Photo illustration by ART iT. Seemingly, one has always spoken of the end of cinema. Even one of the main inventors of the apparatus, Louis Lumière, saw that it was “without a future,” and withView More >

By Olga Bryukhovetska     What is Dispositif? The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a key term in late Foucault that first appeared in his History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976) to replace the use of “discursive formation,”View More >

Between Blue Rocks By Aveek Sen   Dayanita Singh – Dream Villa 40 (2008), C-type print. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.   To approach photography through the gates of poetry is to complicate the relationship of bothView More >

By Shinro Ohtake   Left: Vintage promotional pamphlet for the film Wu yue yu zhong hua, xia ji (Blossom in Rainy May Part 2, 1960), directed by Kim Chun, produced by Kong Ngee Motion Picture Production Company, Hong Kong. Right:View More >

By Kyoichi Tsuzuki     There are certain individuals who in their youth avoid any place associated with karaoke, stubbornly preferring to remain cool and aloof by refusing to sing even when taken to such establishments, but who upon reachingView More >

By Naohiko Hino IUHunJGsBMU Set in Beijing World Park, the plot of Jia Zhangke’s 2004 film The World follows events in the lives of several fictional employees at an actual theme park in Beijing that features miniature recreations of famousView More >

By Hu Fang They leave the cinema, dark and dejected. This is not the movie of their dreams. This is not that perfect, all-encompassing film unspooling in every person’s mind that can never be completed. This is not the movieView More >

Who I am or what I do By Aveek Sen   Installation view, 1st floor, of “Roni Horn: Well and Truly” at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010. Photo Stefan Altenburger, © Kunsthaus Bregenz, Roni Horn.   On an “unspeakably quiet” summer afternoonView 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 >