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Heather Stephens of 31GRAND gallery, Brooklyn, New York, talks about the artists presented by her gallery at Scope Art Fair New York 2006. Featured artist is Carol Riot Kane with a mixed media life-size sculpture installation. The gallery is run by co-directors Megan Bush and Heather Stephens. They conceive group shows and solo shows featuring [...]

Another exhibition P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City opened as part of the Opening Fall Celebration is a show with a highly aestheticized environment by Norwegian artist Børre Sæthre. The visitor is guided through futuristic sound and design until he finally reaches a white box with a unicorn inside. “Each room transports the [...]

“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 [...]

Project for Empty Space: A Public Art Installation is a project conceived by Jasmine Wahi and Meenakshi Thirukode with the aim to bring contemporary art out of traditionally “high-brow” neighborhoods to the everyday people of New York. For this project, the two curators chose local artist Tehniyet Masood to develop a work for the space [...]

For Art Forum Berlin 2007, Alexander Gray Associates presented a solo exhibition of works by New York-based artist Cary Leibowitz. The booth was a re-creation of Leibowitz’ “Candy Ass Carnival” installations of the early 1990s with hundreds of individual artworks and multiples. In this video, Alexander Gray talks about Leibowitz’ work and the exhibition program [...]

With “William Leavitt: Theater Objects” the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles presents the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt. The retrospective at MOCA Grand Avenue surveys William Leavitt’s 40-year career and includes paintings, photographs, works on paper, performances, and installations from the late 1960s to [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

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 distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

The Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met designer Sebastian E. He showed us some works he presented at the booth of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York. Sebastian E. works in Santiago, Chile, as designer, artist, teacher, columnist and consultant. Check out Sebastian E.’s website for more information about his work. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

Interview with Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green, Richard Thé, the creators of “Parasite”, an independent projection-system that can be attached to subways with suction pads. Interview: Jussi Ängeslevä (assistant professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin). Reality Check c-base @ Transmediale.06, Berlin, Exhibition here/there – works of the digital class of the udk berlin of C-Base, [...]