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Camilo Alvarez, director / owner of Samson Projects, Boston, is presenting his booth at ARCO 2006. The gallery is showing works by photographers Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan and drawings by Rune Olsen. ARCO / Madrid, February 9, 2006. Click image or this link to watch video.

Alexander Pey is talking about his project “Endangered Art Collectors” by Alec Pay Foundation, which was a special show at Art Cologne 2005. Alec Pay Foundation is a communication campaign with the mission to encourage art collectors to buy young art. Believe it or not. But people who can serve such excellent soups can do [...]

The current exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland is dedicated to the work of Philippe Parreno, a French artist born in Algeria. Philippe Parreno: May at Kunsthalle Zürich is the first episode from a planned series of “retrospective” exhibitions that will be shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, the Centre Pompidou, the Irish Museum of Modern Art [...]

“In Memoriam” is Gustav Metzgers newest work, specially conceived for the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel. The installation continues the subject of the Jewish refugee history as drawn up in “Eichmann and the Angel” and draws a thematic line to the situation of today’s refugees worldwide. The sculptural installation, a maze of human-scale cardboard cuboids [...]

The newest of Berlin’s art fairs, Preview Berlin was launched in 2005 as a joint effort by four galleries in Berlin – Förderkoje®, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Galerie Kuttner Siebert and loop – raum für aktuelle kunst. Preview Berlin has positioned itself as an important event on the international art fair circuit. The primary focus [...]

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 + [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

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, [...]

SaloneSatellite is a show of upcoming design talents running synergically with this year’s furniture fair. Among them are for example Xcellent, Coex Design, Georgio Saltos, Nika Zupanc, Krä, Gesellschaft für neuartige Leuchtengestaltung, Mareike Gast, The Sign Connection, Franzi Kramer and Bernauer.Product. Art schools like the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the [...]

The design studio Atelier Oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville in Switzerland by Aurel Aebi, Louis Armand and Patrick Reymond. The name of their studio is inspired by the the Russian word for trio, Tr(oi)ka. Their work ranges from design and set design to architecture. Their work has been recognized by various awards [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. From the press release: “In conception, this first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the furniture and architecture, which Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) created between 1924 to the mid 1970s, is very much in keeping with Prouvés [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]