Ofili and the inspiration in routine May 7, 2005
On Kawara, the Japanese-born artist, paints the date. Since the 1960s, he has made thousands of "Today" paintings. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Daniel Lefcourt Is a Non-Painter's Painter Dec 22, 2004
Practitioners include On Kawara, John Baldessari, Allan McCollum, and lately Cheney Thompson, as well as Francis Alys and Jeff Koons, who both hire others to make their paintings. Lefcourt, 29, also makes videos, photographs, and sculpture. (Village Voice)
A hard-driving new medium 'updates' performance art Nov 11, 2004
Perhaps the most famous experimenter with the representation of time in art is the great On Kawara. He is best known for making one painting every day since 1966. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Repeat after them Apr 23, 2004
The "Date Paintings" of Japanese artist On Kawara are a strung-out calendar -- paintings of the day, month, and year when he made them. If he didn't finish by midnight, he'd destroy that day's work. (Boston Globe -- Living)
NBC: London hosts another glass box Apr 3, 2004
Bruno Vincent / Getty Images fileOnlookers marvel at the "Reading One Million Years" art installation byOn Kawarain on Tuesday ... "Reading One Million Years" is a work of conceptual art by the Japanese artist On Kawara, and is a reflection of his preoccupation with the passage and marking of time. (MSNBC -- International)
Artists talk do it by numbers Mar 29, 2004
Sixteen performance artists working in pairs and shifts are taking part in the installation which is the creation of Japanese artist On Kawara ... They will read selected dates from 998,031 BC to 1,001,980 AD which have been taken from On Kawara's books ... Margot Heller, director of the South London Gallery, said: "On Kawara's work speaks simply and directly about a subject relevant to us all, the passage and marking of time. "In these books the whole of human history is reduced to a few... (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
The new David Blaines? Mar 29, 2004
I stepped into a large glass box behind Nelson's Column that houses London's most peculiar event, Reading One Million Years by the Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara. For seven days from 8am this morning, 24 hours a day, several pairs of men and women will sit in this box and read from two printed lists of years, from 998,031BC to AD1969 - the year the mysterious On Kawara conceived the idea - and AD1980 to AD1,001,980. (Google News UK -- Entertainment)
Caught in the endless moment Nov 25, 2003
Hiroshi Sugimoto's mesmerising photographs are meditations on the nature of time, says Richard Dorment. There could hardly be a greater contrast between the nihilism that characterises the artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize and the photographs of the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
"Partners: Collector and Curator Ydessa Hendeles' View of 20th ... Nov 6, 2003
With the exhibition, Partners, Ydessa Hendeles, collector, curator and founder of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation in Toronto, will present selected works from her collection for the first time internationally. At the invitation of Chris Dercon, the new director of the Haus der Kunst, and Thomas Weski, its new chief curator, Hendeles, who the New York Times describes as a collector who occupies a rarefied place in her small peer group because she is also widely considered a brilliant... (Absolutearts.com)
