Outsider Art Fair, New York © 2017 Wide Open Arts The Outsider Art Fair has gone all out to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Its New York edition features over 60 exhibitors from nine countries, as well as two cur...

YOKO ONO: ONE WOMAN SHOW, 1960–1971

2015.6.22　 Text: Antoine Revoy

"Yoko Ono: One Woman Show", 2015 44 years since her provocative debut at the MoMA, Yoko Ono has returned for a retrospective of her film, music, performance and conceptual art. Though Ono's first exhibit at the p...

BJöRK

2015.6.3　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

Exhibition “Björk” about the titled singer-songwriter is held at Museum of Modern Art, (hereafter called MoMA) until June 7th. Björk has released eight solo albums so far, and in her more than 20 years of career, she ...

AI WEIWEI: “@LARGE” ON ALCATRAZ

2015.3.17　 Text: Fuyumi Saito

One of the American National park, Alcatraz island is famous for the history which was a prison island, “the Rock”. Since the island is surrounded by peculiar drift of the tide, people said it was impossible to escape...

TOMOO GOKITA EXHIBITION

2014.4.7　 Text: Taro Masushio

During the cold months of January through February, the initial silence that greets the visitor to the Mary Boone Gallery unfolds in almost grotesque yet surrealistically beautiful tones as one adjusts the distance to...

THE WRINKLES OF THE CITY, HAVANA, CUBA

2013.6.24　 Text: Yuji Shinfuku

From Havana, Cuba, to New York, North America, as if collaborating with the walls of historical cities full of the memories of the people who live there, JR and Jose Parla fascinate us in their own way. The Wrin...

ANDY REMENTER “I WISH I KNEW”

2012.11.22　 Text: Victor Moreno

Andy Rementer belongs to a new generation of American cartoonists. Although still in the early stages of his career, Andy has a wealthy background already, including illustrations for The New York Times, New Yorker an...

YAYOI KUSAMA EXHIBITION

2012.8.14　 Text: Aya Karpinska from technekai

Kusama in Dots Obsession, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2011. Collection Yayoi Kusama. Image courtesy Yayoi Kusma Studio Inc.; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Gagosian Gallery Ne...

ZIMOUN “VOLUME”

2012.3.6　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena from Med44 Images courtesy bitforms gallery nyc

Image courtesy bitforms gallery nyc. Photo: © Zimoun Bitforms is featuring the first New York solo show of Zimoun, a Swiss artist whose work explores kinetic and sound generating architectural sculptures inspired...

CORY ARCANGEL: PRO TOOLS

2011.9.26　 Text: Aya Karpinska

Most fine art exhibitions require the viewer to have a good amount of art history knowledge to fully enjoy the show; for Cory Arcangel's solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art it helps to have a knowled...

TARA DONOVAN: UNTITLED (MYLAR)

2011.5.2　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena of Med44

A new sprawling single large-scale installation by Tara Donovan. I must admit that I am an admirer of Tara Donovan’s work. It simply is among the best art that I’ve seen in my ten years living in New York so fa...

FIGMENT ON GOVERNORS ISLAND

2010.7.29　 Text: Aya Karpinska

On a hot and sticky Friday afternoon, we took a family trip to Governors Island just off the southern tip of Manhattan. No private cars are allowed on the island, and with plenty of wide open spaces and elegant trees ...

2010 MOMA/MOMA P.S.1 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM

2010.7.9　 Text: Ariel Yen-ju Hsieh

On June 25th, P.S.1 festively opened up its annual Young Architects Program to general public of New York City. This year’s winning project which is set to reshape the scenery of museum’s courtyard - Pole Dance, is cr...

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI – NO MAN’S LAND

2010.5.28　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena from Med44

I decided it was time for my three-month-old son to experience his first monumental art installation. The occasion was Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land, which fills the massive drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory ...

WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010

2010.3.30　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena from Med44

The 75th edition of the Whitney Biennial is a peculiar show. It does not seem to represent a comprehensive survey of American art produced in the last two years, but rather a group show of artists reflecting on recess...

TIM BURTON EXHIBITION

2010.1.28　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena from med44

A comprehensive retrospective of Tim Burton’s body of work is being displayed at the Museum Of Modern Art until April 26th. This exhibition comprises two different floors of the museum as well as screenings of his...

CONFLUX 2009

2009.9.29　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena from Med44

New York City became a lab for creative expression the weekend of September 17th – 20th. The reason for this experimentation was another edition of the Conflux urban psychogeography festival. Psychogeography, a term c...