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At the beachfront at Collins Park Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Positions section presents 20 young galleries with projects by their up-and-coming artists in 20 shipping containers transformed into temporary gallery spaces. Among them: Teresa Margolles at Galería Salvador Díaz, Martha Friedman at Wallspace, Tercerunquinto at Proyectos Monclova, Matthias Bitzer at Galerie Iris Kadel, Raúl [...]

The High Line in New York City is a rather new place for New Yorkers to relax and enjoy the city. The pedestrian walkway and park was created by the non-profit Friends of the High Line along a former elevated rail spur in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first section of the part, from [...]

For the inaugural event of Galerie Magazin in Berlin, Germany, Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski has built a computer lab from the 1960′s. “DATAmatic” is the name of the company that built the legendary computer “DATAmatic 1000” in the US in the 1959. It occupied a whole room and was used for mathematical calculations. Robert Kusmirowski’s [...]

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 [...]

Corinne Enquist, director of C. A. Galerija (Zagreb, Croatia), on the video installation Oxygen4 by the Croatian-Dutch artist and filmmaker Dan Oki. Using five different video projections, the presentation invites viewers to “make their own movies”, which will vary according to their patience, interest, and the flow of visitors to the stand. ARCO / Madrid, [...]

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum. The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work. Presentation of the project for the Neue Stadt-Casino Basel. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition.
Museum of Architecture Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

In 1987 Mike Meiré founded the advertising agency Meiré und Meiré, along with his brother Marc. Since 1999 he is art director of the business magazine “Brand Eins”. In the third part of the interview Mike Meiré talks about the creation process, from where he gets his inspiration, artists he likes and his favorite brands. [...]

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 [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

“Luigi Colani is a great maverick of 20th Century design. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has placed organic design firmly on the contemporary agenda, producing biodynamic designs for cars, boats, planes, ceramics, consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for the design of transport and architecture. A powerful influence on [...]

Yes, this is not the typical VernissageTV style video. But with this nasty weather here in Switzerland, we enjoyed producing something that reminded us of our sunny days in Miami Beach. So in this video, there’s sun, palm trees, water, and a beautiful speedboat. The speedboat is a Riva, the Aquariva by designer Marc Newson [...]