Publisher: The Studio Trust
Content: 248 pages, full colour
Language: English
ISBN: 0962514160 (Hardcover).
Dimensions: 11.0 x 8.7 x 1.0 inches
Price: Hardcover: US $29.99, UK £24.99
Editor: Michael Spens
Deputy Editor: Dr Janet McKenzie
Creative Director: Martin Kennedy
Vice-President: Miguel Benavides
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Introduction
Rapid currents in cyberspace
This year serves to prove the non-conformist yet globally enriching characteristic of current interchange in the contemporary art world. This in all the experience across the planet defines a remarkable diversity of ends and means. Yearbook 2006 reveals this, although a similar selection could be made from all the other articles by Studio International contributors across the world.
As we look back, it was already fully evident that coverage of China – her history, and her contemporary cultural development – gave a vital new dimension. It is good to recall that The Studio – our predecessor, founded in 1893 – took on, through the Founder/Editor/Proprietor Charles Holme (1848–1923) an important commercial and cultural role stemming from his engagement as an entrepreneur in the Far East, becoming a special conduit for ideas. In this, Studio was well ahead of other competitors striving to make their mark in this field. Today, doors are opening across all South-East Asia. We were able to document the significant and relevant exchange between London’s Royal Academy exhibition ‘Royal Academicians in China’ (page 70) and the reciprocal show ‘China; The Three Emperors, 1662–1795’ (page 56) fully approved, and with exceptional loan items, by the Chinese People’s Republic. We covered the superb exhibition sent from Vienna to China of ‘cutting-edge’ contemporary Austrian architecture (page 170), which was exhibited in both Beijing and Guangzhou and has been a further important European inspiration in the run-up to the Olympics. We include the feature article covering Chinese art history (page 8) by Dr Thomas Lawton, former editor for Artibus Asiae, former director of the Freer Gallery of Art and founding director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. This is an article of rare insight and research, reflecting Dr Lawton’s deep knowledge of the subject.
Drawing down various one-off historical initiatives, we include 19th century paintings by J.C Dahl, as exhibited at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, relating to the Romantic tradition in England and Germany (page 76) and a summary of the Gothic world (page 106), plus a searching essay focused on the 19th century plight of displaced people (page 110). We recognise the contemporary predicament of contemporary artists in Lebanon – as presented by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (page 132) – and the real struggle that persists to make art in the Middle East today (pages 156).
In London, the dramatic impact of New British Art, as presented at the Tate Triennial 2006 (page 64), could be interestingly set up against the parallel universe of British fashion in our review of the exhibition ‘AngloMania’ shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (page 176). One key design highlight in England was also memorable: the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester (page 152), designed by the veteran Royal Academician Sir Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library (d. 2007). This small gem of a building put a historic English cathedral town firmly on the map with a contemporary masterwork that is an exemplary swansong of its designer.
The late Susan Sontag (d. 2004) is commemorated in this 2006 Yearbook by a tribute (page 138) linking her universal talent, as here applied to photography,
a key interest for her. We are thankful to the estate of photographer Peter Hujar (d. 1987) for the sublime image by him, which we have incorporated on the
back cover.
Michael Spens
Editor
Contents
Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘What is the soundscape of the forthcomin...
Mikhail Karikis explains the ideas behind his new sound and video installation calling for action ag...
Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**
Two concurrent exhibitions bring special collections into broader spaces of circulation, highlightin...
Focusing on the skills of wallpaper design and embroidery, this exhibition tells the story of the ...
Daphne Wright: Deep-Rooted Things
This show is a celebration of the domestic, and the poignant sculpture of Wright’s two sons, now o...
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse into Past Histories
The venerable Egyptian Canadian installation artist Anna Boghiguian brings shipwrecks, shells and th...
Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams
A groundbreaking New York show from 1966 is brought back to life with the work of three women whose ...
Jeremy Deller – interview: ‘I’m not looking for the next thing. I...
How did he go from asking a brass band to play acid house to filming former miners re-enacting a sem...
Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha
The first of three exhibitions to position historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti with new works ...
The Parisian scenes that Edward Burra is known for are joyful and sardonic, but his work depicting t...
The 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle
Surprising, thrilling, enchanting – under the artistic direction of Chus Martínez, the works in t...
It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame ...
In a series of essays about pairs of famous women, the cultural critic Philippa Snow explores the co...
Paul Thek: Seized by Joy. Paintings 1965-1988
A rare London show of elusive queer pioneer Paul Thek captures a quieter side of his unpredictable p...
This elegantly composed exhibition celebrates 25 years’ of awards to female artists by Anonymous W...
The first of its kind, this vast show is a stunning tour of the realism movement of the 1920s and 30...
Maggi Hambling: ‘The sea is sort of inside me now … [and] it’s as if...
Maggi Hambling’s new and highly personal installation, Time, in memory of her longtime partner, To...
Caspar Heinemann takes us on a deep, dark emotional dive with his nihilistic installation that refer...
Complex, multilayered paintings and sculptures reek of the dark histories of slavery and colonialism...
Shown in the context of the historic paintings of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Rachel Jones’s new pain...
William Mackrell – interview: ‘I have an interest in dissecting the my...
William Mackrell's work has included lighting 1,000 candles and getting two horses to pull a car. No...
Marina Tabassum – interview: ‘Architecture is my life and my lifestyle...
The award-winning Bangladeshi architect behind this year’s Serpentine Pavilion on why she has shun...
A cabinet of curiosities – inside the new V&A East Storehouse
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has turned the 2012 Olympics broadcasting centre into a sparkling repositor...
Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?
This nocturnal exhibition organised by the Onassis Foundation’s cultural platform transforms a pub...
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art / Walt Disn...
Three well-attended museum exhibitions in San Francisco flag a subtle shift from the current drumbea...
This dazzling exhibition on the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death celebrates his versatile ...
Through film, sound and dance, Emma Critchley’s continuing investigative project takes audiences o...
Rijksakademie Open Studios: Nora Aurrekoetxea, AYO and Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
At the Rijksakademie’s annual Open Studios event during Amsterdam Art Week, we spoke to three arti...
AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the...
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compo...
Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to ...
Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselve...
Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, ...
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