A time-lapse video of artist Sun K. Kwak creating "Untying Space_Asian Art Museum, SF." Experience this work in person at the Asian Art Museum during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms

Mathieu Grodet is a French-born artist living and working in Canada. He creates thin and elegant glass objects in classic Venetian style, engraved with imagery that addresses modern-day ideas and issues. In his March 2012 Residency at The Studio, Grodet used the Museum's Rakow Library to research forms and styles for vessels, as well as sketches for his final drawings on the vessels.

Korean-born New York based artist Sun K. Kwak makes the invisible visible using a surprisingly simple medium: black masking tape. Through a process infused with an element of performance, Kwak channels surrounding energy to manifest a movement of lines, liberating the space and transforming it into a new pictorial reality. For the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012), Kwak creates a site-specific installation for the museum's North Court, which will not be seen again after the exhibition closes.

Heman Chong imagines a future of dystopian stillness with "Calendars (2020--2096)," an installation of 1001 photos, each a calendar page capturing a moment of complete emptiness in today's bustling areas of Singapore. View this work for yourself at the Asian Art Museum during the exhibition, "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012). For more information: http://www.asianart.org/phantoms

This spring, an extraordinary sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Roxy Paine was installed in the Kansas City Sculpture Park. The 56-foot sculpture, called Ferment, is a stainless-steel branching structure that sits majestically on a hill south of the Bloch Building.

Paine is considered one of the most important young sculptors of today. His celebrated sculptures are comprised of shining pipes, plates and rods that have been cut, bent and welded into branchlike structures. For more information about Ferment, please visit:

View GALLERY CRAWL video featuring an interview with Eric William Carroll about PLATO'S HOME MOVIES, his November 2011 exhibition at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco.

For his solo project at the Art Institute, Finch has created a solar-powered "lunar lander module" that uses energy from sunlight to power a geodesic dome-shaped object——a "buckyball" that resembles the carbon molecules named for visionary architect Buckminster Fuller——positioned on top of the lander. Installed on the open-air Bluhm Family Terrace, Lunar will glow during the evening hours the color of moonlight——the exact light measured from the full moon over Chicago in July 2011. On glow through April 8, 2012.

The new ongoing film series American Originals Now focuses on the work of internationally recognized filmmakers from the Americas, and offers visitors an opportunity to interact with and share in the artists' production methodologies and current practices. The inaugural program brought recent short works by filmmaker Jem Cohen and a screening of his award-winning 1999 documentary Instrument, made in collaboration with DC-based band Fugazi. Cohen was present for both events; during the latter of the two he was joined by Fugazi frontmen Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto.