Back Issue -1 February 2007-

Vehicles of Communication Matthew Larking As a subject and an aesthetic focus of modern art, the beauty of speed and machine engaged only a handful of artists. Early homilies to going full tilt were at times provocative, like that of the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his Italian Futurist Manifesto (1909). He proclaimed, after his car ended up in a ditch of muddy water in an atttempt to avoid two cyclists: "A roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. more... Manabu Chiba: Rule of the Site Thomas Daniell Although resolutely non-flamboyant, Manabu Chiba's architecture is not so much minimalist as it is a maximization of available resources, stripped of all unnecessary expression. The products of his own thorough investigations of each project's unique setting, these buildings manage to combine spatial efficiency with experiential variety. The results are spare and understated, laconic yet powerful. more... Vehicles of Communication Matthew Larking 1 Feb 2007 Manabu Chiba: Rule of the Site Thomas Daniell 1 Feb 2007 Nihonga Meets India: The Akino Fuku Museum Alan Gleason 1 Feb 2007 New Media: Yuka Sasahara Gallery Jeffrey Ian Rosen 15 Jan 2007 On Togo Murano Thomas Daniell 15 Jan 2007 From Combs to Cubists: The Pola Museum in Hakone Alan Gleason 15 Jan 2007 >> Back Issues

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