One up on the avant-garde
How time flies and its tangible and intangible outcomes linger around and sometimes sustain us. The October Gallery in London celebrates its 35th anniversary in April 2014 and, according to its founders, the date coincides with the birth of the transvangarde movement, writes SAJID RIZVI. The gallery lays claim to having coined the phrase, which means beyond — but also perhaps through — avant-garde in the widest sense...
Kenji Yoshida in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
In 1993 the British Museum organised a solo exhibition of works by Kenji Yoshida in the newly refurbished Japanese Galleries, the first living artist to be exhibited in that prestigious space. At the opening, Kenji Yoshida 吉田堅治 spoke to Eastern Art Report Editor Sajid Rizvi through an interpreter. Below are edited excerpts from that interview: Sajid Rizvi. What do you think of the current exhibition—are you happy with it? Kenji...
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