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 >
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Remembering Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
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 >
Remembering Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010)
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 >