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Scope London 2006 is located in the heart of London’s burgeoning contemporary art scene, the East End, steps away from White Cube and London’s emerging galleries. The fair features many special projects and events, including PAM (The Perpetual Art Machine), Silent Auction and Scope Sound. Scope London International Contemporary Art Fair, October 10, 2006. > [...]

A major retrospective exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s work in neon and fluorescent light is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Miami (until January 7, 2007). Titled “Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light”, the exhibition includes 16 of Nauman’s word play and identity signs, fluorescent light environments, and figurative neons, from [...]

Following our walk through Art Basel / Art Unlimited we have a look at the galleries at the Rundhofhalle of Art 38 Basel. In this video we take a look at Hall 2.0 with galleries such as Bischofberger, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Marlborough and Ziegler. Art 38 Basel – The International Art Show 2007. Part [...]

Joe Amrhein’s gallery Pierogi just opened an additional exhibition space, the Boiler, located four blocks from the current location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Pierogi intends to use the old location for one-person exhibition and Pierogi’s Flat Files, while the more expansive Boiler allows Pierogi to mount larger-scale sculpture, painting, and installation exhibitions and present performances, readings [...]

“Going to the Whitney Museum Retrospective [of Gordon Matta-Clark, editor's note] which was really kind of interesting because I saw a lot of people which I hadn’t seen for twenty years and so they basically say to me ‘So what are you doing now’ because ultimately they don’t know anything about digital art they don’t [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

At Design Miami Basel we met with Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey who presented new work at the booth of Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai / China. Gallery Director Pearl Lam has invited Studio Makkink & Bey, the joint-venture of architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey to investigate Chinese craftmanship and [...]

Among the clients of designer Nacho Carbonell are collectors and celebrities such as Brad Pitt. A brand new piece that he presented at the booth of Galleria Rossana Orlandi is his “Bush of Iron”, a chair / desk combination in afro style, build with thousands of iron wires. “Bush of Iron” belongs the Nacho Carbonell’s [...]

Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment. Alfredo Häberli’s show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat or Moroso. In this [...]

Mark Holmes is the design director at Established & Sons and designs for both Established & Sons and other acclaimed international manufacturers. After studying painting he began a career as an independent artist. In 1997 he opened his first London showroom, in 2003 he founded “The Lane” (together with Sebastian Wrong, who is also operations [...]