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For the Art Parade, artists, performers and designers are invited to create floats, balloons, placards, portable sculptures, performances and street spectacles. On September 8th, 2007 the Art Parade took place for the third time on West Broadway, between Houston and Grand Street. This year’s Art Parade included over 75 projects, including those by Tauba Auerbach, [...]

Charlotte Lund introduces her gallery and talks about the works she brought to Swab International Art Fair Barcelona. Among the works are pieces by Andres Serrano, Astrid Svangren, Jonas Nobel, Mats Gustafson, and Denise Grünstein. VTV also had the opportunity to talk to young Swedish artist Astrid Svangren. May 10/12, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) [...]

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 [...]

1:1 is the title of the show in which works by the artists Monika Sosnowska (*1972 in Poland) and Andrea Zittel (*1965 in the United States) are on display at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland from April 26 until September 21, 2008. Both artists have in common that they respond to their different surroundings in terms [...]

The international contemporary art fair, Kunst 05 Zürich, again includes in its eleventh year a guest sector in the fair’s programme and thus provides additional topicality. For this sector, ten young galleries from New York City were selected whose programmes are focusing on experimental and cutting-edge contemporary art. They show, apart from works with new [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

For the “Aquariva by Marc Newson”, Marc Newson has partnered with Riva and their official designers, Officina Italiana Design, to reinterpret the “Aquariva” speedboat. Riva is an Italian boat-maker that became famous for its mahogany range of boats. Riva produced boats that were the equivalent to luxury cars such as Ferrari or Rolls-Royce and were [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

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 [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]