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Gallerist Massimo Carasi and art historian Anna Mecugni talk about the problems, challenges and hopes for contemporary art in Italy. The interview was conducted in Italian. Scope Art Fair New York 2007, February 26, 2007. Grizzly Lodge Series. Hosted by Althea Viafora-Kress of WPS1 MoMA Art Radio, Vernissage TV, and Scope President Alexis Hubshman. > [...]

“French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous,” Claude Lévi-Strauss has famously said, “Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth.” The same goes for the contemporary artworld: It is about new things to satisfy age-old desires. Is gluttony in art consumption contagious? The panel discussion at the art fair [...]

During Art 41 Basel in June 2010, the British artist Billy Childish created a lot of buzz with the presentation of his paintings at the gallery Neugerriemschneider (Berlin). It seems that with this exhibition at an art fair, the cult figure Billy Childish finally reached the attention of the mainstream art lover. From the art [...]

At Art Amsterdam 2011 Galerie West, Den Haag, was participating in the No Holds Barred section of the art fair with the video installation “In the Company Of” by Simon Gush. “In the Company Of” is a sophisticated singel-channel video, 10-channel audio installation that shows a football match on railroad tracks in the neighborhood of [...]

Bettina Korek is a very active figure in the contemporary art scene. She founded the Los Angeles-based art resource ForYourArt and her Institute for the 21st Century organized Hans Ulrich Obrist’s The Now Interviews performance at this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice. VernissageTV met with her at the place where all began, at the Los [...]

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 [...]

This is the second and final 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. Click here for part 1 and [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 15, January 2011. In this issue we look back at Art Basel Miami Beach Week with an Miami Basel Overview by FADs Editor at Large Ben Austin (click here for his article at FAD) and photos by Sabine Trieloff, Mark Vogel, and Didier Leroi. (Photos by Didier Leroi and Gregor [...]

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 [...]

This is the second part of our coverage of the retrospective exhibition Antibodies. The Works of Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 – 2009 at the Vitra Design Museum. In this video, the curator of the exhibition, Mathias Schwarz-Clauss talks about the Campana brother’s approach to design, how their work differs from that of other designers [...]

Will it blend? Modern art, jewelry, classical antiquity, vintage design, old masters, contemporary design: The current edition of the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques fair juxtaposes works of art from different cultures, epochs and collecting fields ranging from antiquity to the 21st century. VernissageTV attended the opening of the fair and tried to figure out [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]