VIII. Koua Mai Yang by
The article offers information on the art series by American artist Koua Mai Yang, titled "The Hmong American Experience," which show what it means to be Hmong in America.
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi by
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi is a long-overdue study of this complex artist's career. Born in Japan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) arrived in the United States as a teenager and studied art in New York. Although thoroughly integrated into American life, immigration laws prevented him from becoming an American citizen. The early success he achieved with his distinctive modern figural works developed into a compelling and powerful late style. This new survey, the first full retrospective of his works since the Whitney Show of 1948, features seventy of Kuniyoshi's best paintings and drawings, chosen from leading public and private collections in America and Japan. Tom Wolf is professor of art history, Bard College, New York, and the leading Kuniyoshi scholar.
Becoming American? by
"A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all." On December 8, 1941, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) awoke to find himself branded an "enemy alien" by the U.S. government in the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The historical crisis forced Kuniyoshi, an émigré Japanese with a distinguished career in American art, to rethink his pictorial strategies and to confront questions of loyalty, assimilation, national and racial identity that he had carefully avoided in his prewar art. As an immigrant who had proclaimed himself to be as "American as the next fellow," the realization of his now fractured and precarious status catalyzed the development of an emphatic and conscious identity construct that would underlie Kuniyoshi's art and public image for the remainder of his life. Drawing on previously unexamined primary sources, Becoming American? is the first scholarly book in over two decades to offer an in-depth and critical analysis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi's pivotal works, including his "anti-Japan" posters and radio broadcasts for U.S. propaganda, and his coded and increasingly enigmatic paintings, within their historical contexts. Through the prism of an identity crisis, the book examines Kuniyoshi's imagery and writings as vital means for him to engage, albeit often reluctantly and ambivalently, in discussions about American democracy and ideals at a time when racial and national origins were grounds for mass incarceration and discrimination. It is also among the first scholarly studies to investigate the activities of Americans of Japanese descent outside the internment camps and the intense pressures with which they had to deal in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. As an art historical book, Becoming American? foregrounds broader historical debates of what constituted American art, a central preoccupation of Kuniyoshi's artistic milieu. It illuminates the complicating factors of race, diasporas, and ideology in the construction of an American cultural identity. Timely and provocative, the book historicizes and elucidates the ways in which "minority" artists have been, and continue to be, both championed and marginalized for their cultural and ethnic "difference" within the twentieth-century American art canon.
Street Knowledge by
A lavishly illustrated, encyclopedic guide to the world's street cultures past and present includes coverage of such famous artists as Banksy, Quik, and the KLF, as well as lesser-known and up-and-coming talents.
Ming Fay: From Money Trees to Monkey Pots by
"The article profiles Chinese sculptor Ming Fay who comes from a family of artists and moved to Columbus, Ohio to study design as a scholarship student. It states that Ming Fay lived in New York City for four decades, however his art reflects the conflict that comes with an Asian-Western affiliation. It details several of Ming Fay's sculptures which include Radiant Fruits, Ramapo Garden of Desire, and Canutopia. It notes that Ming Fay's studio is located in New Jersey."
Two Sculptors Discuss 'Why Paper?" by
"The article is an interview of mixed media sculptors, Nancy Cohen and Ming Fay. They talk about how Fay started to work with paper and pulp because of limited resources whereas Cohen did during her trip to China while working with Paul Wong. They talk about some of the difficulties faced while working with paper, according to Fay, paper has a reputation of not sustaining a legacy of permanence whereas Cohen speaks about it getting punctured, dusty and being flammable."
Ming Fay: 456 Gallery, New York by
“Out of Jungle: Two Decades of Studio Doodads 1990 to 2010,” an exhibition of work by Ming Fay, took place recently at 456 Gallery, New York. Over the course of his career, Fay has made wonderful sculptures that reference nature and China's remarkable fine art tradition. This good-humored, spirited show collected bits and pieces, including a small shrine devoted to earlier work as well as a room filled with photographs and drawings that place him as an artist of ongoing achievement.
Jiha Moon: Blue Yolo, Yellow Chrysanthemum by
The article reviews the exhibition "Blue Yolo, Yellow Chrysanthemum," featuring the work of artist Jiha Moon, at the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, in 2016.
Jiha Moon: Nashville by
The article reviews the art exhibition “Colliding Icons,” featuring the paintings of Jiha Moon, at the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, from March 19 to June 19, 2011.
Nam June Paik by
A visually profound and highly personal portrait of Paik, enriched with recollections by John Cage, Laurie Anderson, and other friends.
Aki Sasamoto by
The article reviews the art installation exhibition "Past in a Future Tense" by artist Aki Sasamoto at the Bortolami Gallery in New York City.
Aki Sasamoto Interview by
An interview with artist Aki Sasamoto. She discusses various topics, including her use of string in her performances, her interest in storytelling, and why she continues with her performances even after the audience has left.
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Rirkrit Tiravanija by
Rirkrit Tiravanija thrives on the interactions between himself and strangers, friends new and old that he encounters on his travels. He insists that art should provide an occasion for geniality and sociability, an insistence that has enriched the environments he has traversed. Conceived as an artist's book, Rirkrit Tiravanija is also the artist's first monograph. It is constructed as a "storyboard" comprised of images from every work produced between 1989 and the present day. In collaboration with the great Paris designers M/M, Tiravanija offers us the most complete evaluation of his work to date, using as narrative backbone his numerous international retrospective exhibitions of 2004 and 2005 (at the Chiang Mai University Art Museum in Thailand, the Munich Kunstverein, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Mus e d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Serpentine Gallery in London). As documentation, this book is an unsurpassed survey that demonstrates the conceptual unity of Tiravanija's seemingly disparate projects. Texts include written scenarios and scripts by the artist Philippe Parreno, the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and by Tiravanija himself. Also included is a post-retrospective conversation between the exhibitions' curators, among them Hans Ulrich Obrist. Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Rirkrit Tiravanija lives and works in New York, Berlin and Bangkok.
Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission by
Rirkrit Tiravanija has created the second Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission artwork for National Gallery Singapore. Featuring an interlocking bamboo structure with a simple wooden tea house at its centre, this site-specific installation springs from the artist's interest in fostering social engagement and human interaction through art. With homes in Chiang Mai, New York and Berlin, Tiravanija's nomadic life is a constant negotiation of cultures, and a source of inspiration for his practice. This catalogue illuminates this influential artist's fascinating oeuvre through newly commissioned essays and full-colour images of the installation. Other artists featured in this Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series include Danh Vo (2017) and Charles Lim (forthcoming).
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