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Profile: the Korean artist Lee Bae. Imran Qureshi in Paris and the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. VS Gaitonde retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York. The Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitek’s work is on view in Sydney at the Sherman Foundation. The Filipino director Lav Diaz wins the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. Yang Fudong’s latest film and installation for the SALT festival in the Arctic Circle in Norway. The Baksi Museum of contemporary art in remote Eastern Turkey. Hokusai goes on show at the Grand Palais in Paris. A review of Japanese Contemporary art in Brisbane and the Asian Triennial in Manchester, UK. Kawase Hasui on show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Zhang Huan’s sculptures in upstate New York. New York September auction reviews. Islamic Arts Diary. Listings.
FROM HER STUDIO in central Bangkok contemporary artist Pinaree Sanpitak could hear the demonstrators on the streets just days before incumbent Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government was replaced by a military coup earlier this year. Sanpitak left the house swept… Continue reading
HELGA-MARIE NORDBY and Erland Mogard-Larsen first conceived the idea of SALT in 2010, while curating the Lofoten International Art Festival. Nomadic SALT was inspired by the Arctic Circle, and it will move in a similarly slow pattern to the surrounding… Continue reading
THE LONG-ANTICIPATED Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (1924-2001) retrospective opened at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum on 24 October. Between both public and private collections, a total of 45 paintings and works on paper spanning 40 years of VS Gaitonde’s career are… Continue reading
CHRONICLING THE art of the Heisei era, which commenced in 1989 with the ascension of Emperor Akihito, this exhibition features major works by artists including Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Yasumasa Morimura, Daido Moriyama, Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Yukinori Yanagi.… Continue reading