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Manhattan Noon is an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York that shows photographs by Gus Powell. One thing that’s special about these photographs is that they have been taken by Gus Powell during his lunch hour. “The midday meanderings of New Yorkers on their lunch breaks, famously captured by Frank O’Hara [...]

New York correspondent Theodore Bouloukos interviews Lee Wells of Perpetual Art Machine (PAM). At Scope New York 2007 PAM celebrated its 1st birthday. “Perpetual Art Machine PAM is a living archive of 21st century international video art featuring over 500 videos and over 300 artists from over 50 countries. PAM Perpetual Art Machine is one [...]

As part of the first edition of the St. Moritz Art Masters (SAM), there’s an exhibition with 5 sculptures of Frank Stella’s Bali Series and 3 sculptures of the Scarlatti Series (Courtesy Ficher Rohr Gallery, Basel). The exhibition is presented in the Paracelsus Building near the Hotel Kempinski, an old pump room of the St. [...]

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects presents new paintings by Timothy Tompkins in the main space and curated projects by Gosia Wojas and Joanna Szupinska in the project spaces. With kind permission of gallery owner Susanne Vielmetter VernissageTV visited the gallery one day before the opening of the show. In this video Susanne Vielmetter talks especially [...]

The art.fair focuses exclusively on contemporary art from the 21st century and mainly artists born after 1970. The organizers also place emphasis on the “event character” of the fair with parties and special events. Art.fair, Cologne. Impressions from the opening, November 1, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new movie window. > [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, openend its doors with the inaugural exhibition “Peripheral Vision and Collective Body” which is on display from May 21 until September 21, 2008. Taking part in this group show is also Portuguese artist Ângela Ferreira with her work “Maison Tropicale“. The project [...]

This is the first part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation (see also this video on VernissageTV: Mike + [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

In this episode, Prof. Thomas Gerlach and student Nils Uellendahl show and explain an exciting transportation concept based on swarm intelligence. Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

Among the companies which exhibited at the Designers’ Saturday were firms like Alias, B&B Italia, Corian, Création Baumann, Delta Light, Girsberger, Glas Trösch, Hector Egger Holzbau, Lista, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Ruckstuhl, USM, Vitra, and Zumtobel. Designers’ Saturday, Langenthal / Switzerland, November 4, 2006. Part 2/2. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

In this episode, VernissageTV sat down with Peter F. Braunwalder, President and CEO of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA in the HSBC Lounge at Design Miami/ Basel. Peter F. Braunwalder talks about his personal interest in art and design, design as collecting item, and why HSBC Private Bank sponsors art and design events, especially Design [...]