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Just in case that you are not yet sitting under the christmas tree with your family, singing and unpacking gifts, we have a special video for you today. The main protagonist is a tree as well, but: it’s not a fir but a palm tree with a very special talent or misbehavior. It has been [...]

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 [...]

Yto Barrada: Riffs at the Deutsche Guggenheim presents photographs, films, publications, installations, and sculptures of the French artist Yto Barrada. It’s the first large-scale exhibition in Germany of the artist, who lives and works in Tangier, Morocco. Her oeuvre deals with the peculiar situation of her hometown. Her work that often deals with migration has [...]

On the occasion of the upcoming Art Cologne 2010, 44th Internationaler Kunstmarkt, VernissageTV met with Daniel Hug in the Caféteria of Kunsthaus Zürich. In the first part of the interview that we published yesterday, Daniel Hug talked about his background, how he became director of Art Cologne, and the challenges he was facing. In the [...]

Curator Brian Keith Jackson along with Althea Viafora Kress talk with artists Mickalene Thomas, Shinique Amie Smith and Navin June Norling about their Bombay Sapphire and Thurgood Marchell College Fund exhibition during the New York “Inspired Week”. Scope Art Fair, New York, February 25, 2007. Grizzly Lodge Series. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam / Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s Futuro: house of the future. With its distinctive flying saucer like shape Suuronen’s Futuro is an icon of 1960s design. In 1965 Matti Suuronen was commissioined to design [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. In 1976 [...]

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 [...]

At Design Miami 2009, Dutch designer Maarten Baas has been awarded the Designer of the Year price. On the occasion of this award, Maarten Baas presented a retrospective of his work, including pieces of his famous Smoke and Clay furniture series. Also on display: Maarten Baas’ Real Time Project, a series of videos depicting a [...]

The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction is an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum that brings together objects such as the iPod, the Thonet chair No. 14, and furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata, and Jasper Morrison. The [...]

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 [...]

Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum [...]

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 [...]