Tag: art history

  • “Gilt”-Pleasure: Jeff Koons Interview/访谈

    传说中的Jeff Koons瘦小但体态放松、神情自得，永远的华尔街人士打扮，气质中透着美国东部传统中产的富足得体及表面上的谦和友好，面向观众说话时身体略向前倾，举手投足间得当近人的魅力，更像个Corporate America式的高管或者小型私立大学中最受欢迎的那类教授。

  • Romantic Fallacies

    That being an artist is a romantic undertaking still holds true for many; but not Luc Tuymans, whose thinly-smeared, off-register, and elusively referential images oscillate between what is depicted and a sheer detachment from the subject matter. They conjure up a subconscious world where the most banal elements—creased sheets on an unkempt bed or eerily…

  • Seeing and Disbelieving: Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink Animation Videos

    Xin Wang, “Seeing and Disbelieving: Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink Animation Videos,” in Modern Art Asia Selected Papers Issues 1-8, edited by Majella Munro (West Sussex: Enzo Arts and Publishing, June 2012), pp. 213-224. Xin Wang essay on Chen Shaoxiong for Modern Art Asia http://www.chenshaoxiong.net/?p=1905 墨水东西/Ink Things,2007,水墨素描/Ink Drawing Since 2005, the now Beijing-based multi-media artist Chen Shaoxiong…

  • The Unnatural Wonders of Japan’s Influential Rinpa Aesthetic

    “The Unnatural Wonders of Japan’s Influential Rinpa Aesthetic.” Hyperallergic. November 5, 2012. The Unnatural Wonders of Japan’s Influential Rinpa Aesthetic Studio of Tawaraya Sôtatsu, “Boats upon Waves” (17th C.) with the reflection of Nawa Kohei;s “PixCell-Deer #24″ (2011) (all photos by author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) I always consider it fortunate that at institutions like…