Wolfgang Laib

Wolfgang Laib on Mark Rothko and his concurrent museum exhibitions

March 2013

The German artist Wolfgang Laib is well known for his meticulous installations. Pollen from Hazelnut, 2013, is on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until March 11, 2013, and the permanent Wax Room (Where have you gone–where are… READ ON

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Roy Lichtenstein

The National Gallery of Art

December 2012

There are approximately 135 works in this vast retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein’s oeuvre, and even more dots, a shape the artist relished. While the array of dots may be dizzying, the National Gallery of Art’s fourteen themes guide … READ ON

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Chen Chieh-jen

Chen Chieh-jen discusses his new film Happiness Building I

November 2012

Chen Chieh-jen is a Taiwanese artist whose most recent film is titled Happiness Building I. Here he discusses the film’s collaborative framework and his “active social practice.” Happiness Building I is on view at the Shihlin Paper … READ ON

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Ai Weiwei

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

October 2012

In the first major US survey of Ai Weiwei’s work, Mori Art Museum curator Mami Kataoka has added to her 2009 Mori exhibition, to produce an insightful and thought-provoking installation that leads one to look beyond the artist’s recent … READ ON

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eteam

eteam talks about their recent work

May 2011

The New York–based collective eteam is Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger. Their latest exhibition, “If the dancing gets too stiff, the rain needs to get dug out as ice-cubes,” which connects local populations in Dewitz, Germany,… READ ON

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Dan Perjovschi

March 2011

Dan Perjovschi, a Romanian artist based in Bucharest, continues his project of politically charged cartoons drawn onto galleries’ walls with his parody of Hong Kong, capitalism, and China in his installation Hong Kong First, 2011. Among … READ ON

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Jennifer Wen Ma

March 2011

Jennifer Wen Ma’s first solo exhibition in Taipei, “Inked,” opens with Inked Friendship, 2011, a live-feed projection of a tree in southern Taiwan that has been painted with mo, black Chinese ink. Most of the ten works in this multimedia… READ ON

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Hong-Kai Wang

October 2010

“Between Q & A . . . ,” the latest solo exhibition by the Taiwanese, New York–based artist Hong-Kai Wang, builds on her 2009 commission from the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale in South Korea. In that video, Accept Me … READ ON

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