Marco Bohr, from the series Daigo Archive, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 2008. Dear Readers, This month two years ago I started this blog. I am nostalgically looking back at my first post on the infamous TV footage of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s final speech. Hoping that this post will not by my final speech, I want…
Fill out our online survey. Dinh Q. Lê, Erasure, 2011, detail (video still). Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Dinh Q. Lê’s ‘Erasure’ is an interactive sculptural exhibition which critically interrogates the notion of the migrant via a video piece and a huge collection of abandoned photographs the artist bought from second hand shops in…
Fill out our online survey. Yaakov Israel, from the series The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey, 2012 The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey is the messianic title of Yaakov Israel’s series of photographs brought together in a recently published book. The series tells the story about both Israel the…