The Open Arts Journal is very pleased to announce the publication of their current themed issue, edited by Joel Robinson, ‘Pavilions’ (Open Arts Journal, Issue 2, Winter 2013-2014).
This peer-reviewed, open access content is available now at www.openartsjournal.org
Table of Contents
Introduction: big worlds under little tents
JOEL ROBINSON
Historical Themes and Contexts
‘Not months but moments’: ephemerality, monumentality, and the pavilion in ruins
IHOR JUNYK
At the bottom of the garden: the Caffeaus of Villa Albani
JANE LOMHOLT
Folkloric modernism: Venice’s Giardini Della Biennale and the geopolitics of architecture
JOEL ROBINSON
From the world’s fair to Disneyland: pavilions as temples
JAIMEE K. COMSTOCK-SKIPP
The Markham Moor papilio: a picturesque commentary
KAROLINA SZYNALSKA
The Architecture of Display
On Penelope Curtis’ Patio and Pavilion: The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture
BRIAN HATTON
Fascism, middle class ideals, and holiday villas at the 5th Milan Triennale
FLAVIA MARCELLO
‘A bazaar in the Coliseum’: marketing Southeast Asian handicrafts in New York, 1956
JENNIFER WAY
Pavilioning Manchester: boundaries of the local, national and global at the Asia Triennial
BECCY KENNEDY
Haiti’s first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale: anachronism or illuminating opportunity?
WENDY ASQUITH
The Dallas Pavilion: contemporary art and urban identity
JASPAR JOSEPH-LESTER AND MICHAEL CORRIS
Contemporary Projects
‘A glimpse of another world’: Zaha Hadid’s Mobile Art Pavilion (MAP)
SOPHIE KAZAN
The Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art (DICA): a photo-essay
YAM LAU
Electronic textiles for architecture
SARAH BONNEMAISON
The playful Ping-Pong Pavilion: learning from risky experimentation in real time
HARRIET HARRISS
Deconstructing the Children’s Art Pavilion
CHRIS TUCKER
Afterword
After word, thought, life: a stroll in Parisian parks
MICHAELA GIEBELHAUSEN