Launched with fanfare two years ago, the Singapore Biennale returns to the city-state this autumn, opening with a twoday vernissage on September 9

The Third Yokohama Triennale is taking place from September 13 to November 30, 2008. The artistic director of the Triennale is Tsutomu Mizusawa, who

If there is a country in which so-called “low art”, or handicraft, has played an important role in the development of the arts in general, this

From September 2008, Opera Gallery Singapore will display works by important modernist figures and contemporary artists not only in its gallery

In Motive Gallery in the center of Amsterdam, Tintin Wulia held a solo exhibition in the summer of 2008. It offered an opportunity to meet her,

New books on modern art history, published in Asia and for an Asian public, are often good opportunities to reflect on the status of art, especially

Shit may be the closest we come to death in life, or for that matter, the meeting ground between Eros and Thanatos. It is most often the detritus we

When I first saw Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s precariously arranged constructions a few years ago, I remember thinking that he must have been the kind

There’s something buried in these paintings, hovering at the cusp of recognition. It’s a fleeting something or other that at times appears as parody,

In his debut exhibition, Pretend You’re Actually Alive, Ledare trampled over millennia-old taboos with a curious detachment. The sexually explicit images he made of his mother, Tina Peterson, a former ballerina turned middle-aged stripper, were shocking more for the ugly...

Perhaps it was Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramovi’s series at the Guggenheim Museum in November 2005, which recreated seminal works from the 1960s and ’70s by five different artists as well as two of her own pieces, that indisputably proved that performance might have a life...

Charles Seliger’s place in history has yet to be fully secured. Born in 1926, he was the youngest and most precocious artist in the group that gathered around Peggy Guggenheim in New York in the 1940s (Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock were also part of this circle). He had...

Simon Starling’s Three Day Sky (2004-08), which will be included in The Quick and the Dead exhibition at the Walker next spring, begins in the

Samuel Beckett once noted that "To restore silence is the role of objects." I recalled this observation when reading the final public statement by

Art Beijing will be held from 6 to 9, September 2008. Focused on Asia, more than 100 galleries from 20 countries are participating. Included are