Can’t get to Venice? The folks at Artsy come to the rescue and take you on a nice Biennial tour here.
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Archives For Art
Constructed by hand and photographed in a tank of water Kim Keever makes haunting landscapes, abstractions and the like with the ironic eye of a gonzo Renaissance master.
SHIMPEI TAKEDA’s series Trace documents radiation in the soils via sites he picked in Japan. He rigged up a unique method to expose photographic paper to the soils radiation content. Like some sort of shaman/scientist he makes the invisible visible and records all his methods in this haunting project of Japan’s contamination and loss.
“Hardly anyone outside of Japan had heard the name “Fukushima” until last year, now it’s known around the world disgracefully. The nuclear fallout covered precious land where ancestors passed away. As the reading on the radiation meter climbed uncomfortably, it was such an odd and terrifying experience to collect soil samples as I felt like gathering somebody’s ashes.”
The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion annual commission is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the youngest architect to accept this invitation to design one of the most famous temporary structure commissions in the world
Sou Fujimoto: The Serpentine Pavilion
Untrained and self-taught Bill Traylor is featured in two exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum and a must see if you are in New York this summer. See how an uneducated visionary born into slavery influenced the art world in a very big way.
Traylor in Motion:
Wonders from New York Collections
Bill Traylor:
Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
June 11–September 22, 2013