Michel Lucken, professor of Modern Japanese History, explains how Socrates and Epaminondas came to stand alongside Confucius, why human figures are missing from the pediments of Japanese neoclassical architecture, and what links ancient vases to contemporary manga. In the 1990’s, French historian of modern Japan Michel Lucken was conducting doctoral research on the country’s cultural […]
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On the streets once inhabited by artists such as Elytis, Gatsos, and Koun, a newer generation of visual artists has now found refuge in defunct supermarkets, former garment workshops, and apartments within post-war residential buildings. Will they stay? Or will they be displaced by Airbnb? If Athens is indeed the new Berlin, the news for […]
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Final Hot Desert is pleased to present Real Graffiti 2, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by London-based artist Pol Wah Tse, consisting of two site-specific wallpaper paintings and three painted wall sculptures. The exhibition’s title refers back to the artist’s 2024 exhibition, Real Graffiti, at Hothouse, London. Pol Wah Tse’s sculptures on display […]
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Kishio Suga is one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at the Tama Art University, from 1968 he began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. Through their manipulation, he sought to express the fundamental nature of the world around him and to make visible […]
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Matthew Marks Gallery is pleased to announce Vija Celmins: Prints 1983 to 1985, the next exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes many of her best prints, which were made during this especially protean moment in Celmins’s career. Celmins first studied printmaking as a student in the early 1960s, and […]
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In an era defined by rapid acceleration, it is often the most foundational systems that disappear from view. Seemingly neutral and ubiquitous forms carry layered histories of adaptation, circulation, and exchange, yet through habitual use they become almost invisible. Liu’s work emerges within a landscape in which digital and material production are no longer easily […]
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The painter Vija Celmins has long been an outlier in narratives of postwar American art. Extensive formal analysis of her work, from her early still lifes to her later night skies and ocean surfaces, shows that Celmins was deeply invested in the issues of time, entropy, and energy that proved crucial to her contemporaries, like […]
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Hans Goodrich In some way this is about death and my lack of interest in it. I don’t mean I’m uninterested in it, but experiencing it when someone dear to me died felt empty or lacking in a way that I hadn’t anticipated. Maybe because I could see it coming or maybe because […]
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Cork, Ireland — In an era where architecture is dominated by digital blueprints and standardized specifications, a pioneering open-air pavilion in the Irish countryside arrives to disrupt the status quo. Passage House, a unique collaboration between the internationally renowned architectural practice O’Donnell + Tuomey and master furniture designer Joseph Walsh, is not just a building. […]
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Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by the esteemed sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, presenting recent works in the artist’s signature medium, cedar, alongside a selection of new drawings. Known for her monumental sculptures that are grand in scale but intimate in their details, von Rydinsgvard takes a highly intuitive, […]
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