Lines, Models and Other Illusions By Aveek Sen Installation view of TWENTY-FOUR BLASTS 2011 (2011). Courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Architects continue to think and work towards the completion of architecture. But every step closer to completion takes somethingView More >
The Resistant Photograph: A Day with Lieko Shiga By Aveek Sen Angry Lily (2007), from the series “Canary.” Image © and courtesy Lieko Shiga. I had always felt that somewhere in the depths of my photography there had to beView More >
Five Steps Toward an Eight-Year Manifesto By Praneet Soi I Still from Kumartuli Printer, Notes on Labor Part 1 (2010), slide installation of 80 transparencies with rotary slide projector. Courtesy Praneet Soi. Standing at the immigration hall at JFK, fatigueView More >
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 >
Interior Homelands: Anish Kapoor in Mumbai and Delhi By Aveek Sen My Red Homeland (2003), wax and oil-based paint, hydraulic motor, steel block. Courtesy Anish Kapoor and Lisson Gallery, London. In Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, among the little stories about theView More >
Video WallPaik By Barbara London A version of this text previously appeared in the publication The Electronic Super Highway – Travels with Nam June Paik (Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, and Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, 1994). The author has revisitedView More >
Four essays on art and blindness. By Aveek Sen I By God! if wommen hadde writen stories. – Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales. In the early years of the 1810s, the dusk of the firstView More >
All images: Still from Abstract Reading (2010), video, black-and-white, 24 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist and Atelier Hermès, Seoul. Abstract Reading (2010) is part of a cycle of four new video works that I have made for my currentView More >
Co-founder in 1975 of the Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rem Koolhaas is known not only for producing designs and masterplans of radical innovation, but also for radically innovating contemporary architectural practice through his numerous publications and exhibitions.View More >
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 of OMA projectsView More >