A mother alive even after death Currently on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Song Dong’s Waste Not installation was a joint effort with the artist’s mother, employing an immense collection of household goods she could notView More >
For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is held over a vast area of 760View More >
General director, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 For me, more important than the art is the festival. It is a festival of the land. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of whose aims is to help revitalize the Echigo-Tsumari region, is heldView More >
The thing I want to savor more than anything else is the ‘source’ from which the work originates. All I really want to do is to touch it, to get truly close to it. Beautiful, fleeting images based on scenesView More >
Themes of life and death, past and future, everyday and festive. A drive to produce art for the next generation. Photo Nagare Satoshi We spoke to the artist selected to represent Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale about her approachView More >
Creating an alternative world: What is the ideal art museum architecture? An architect who’s designed numerous art museums and a contemporary artist who brought us the photographic series Architecture and who’s recently branched out into design. Here, these two creatives,View More >
Stitches in time Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Aoyama Satoru’s astonishing embroideries made using an old sewing machine are frequently described as indistinguishable from paintings. In the intricate detail of his works, invariably one glimpses a more conceptual sideView More >
Navigating the future Text: Onishi Wakato Photo Ikeda Masanori “The question is how best to navigate the imminent future, in terms of both plans and the qualities of materials.” When Nishizawa Ryue uttered these words, I felt as though IView More >
Crossing genres with ease Text: Kunisaki Susumu Carsten Nicolai came to Japan in December on a live tour for his label raster-noton. 2008 also saw his installation invertone put on display at ICC, and Nicolai himself readily acknowledges his affectionView More >
A fugue of flowers and horses Text: Yamauchi Hiroyasu Off the coast of the US state of Georgia lies Cumberland Island, home to hundreds of once domesticated horses that over time turned wild. Roe Ethridge’s focus on this equine communityView More >