Bharti Kher: Transformative Vision
Bharti Kher is unique among the female artists currently redefining the scope of contemporary art in India. Balancing motherhood with her career, she is distinguished by growing commercial and critical acclaim. While completing a mammoth piece for her upcoming... [more]

Lee Bul: Wayward Tangents
Lee Bul’s disparate and complex works probe timeless human tendencies: our lurking fear of the natural world, out-sized ambition and the abuse of power (see AAP 28, 47). The artist’s sculptures embody gruesome and surreal forms while addressing a host of... [more]

Intelligent Design: Tokyo Institutions Open Gates to Art Crossovers
Tokyo is one of the most design-conscious cities in the world today. Architects who have completed projects here in the past decade include the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, France’s Jean Nouvel and, of course, Japan’s own cohort of international talent such as Tadao Ando, Kisho Kurokawa and Toyo Ito. Tokyo Designer’s Week and other fairs attract visitors in the hundreds of thousands... [more]

Tehching Hsieh: The Art of Survival
Time plays a significant role in the art of Tehching Hsieh. Famous for his one-year performances spent in isolation, Hsieh marks his point of departure not with the day that he left Taiwan, but rather with the day he first set foot in America after jumping ship in 1974... [more]