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Aqua Art Miami is a new alternative art fair in its second year, taking place concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7-10, 2006. Organized by Seattle artists and dealers, this intimate fair features 40 contemporary art galleries from the US and Canada, with an emphasis on west coast galleries and emerging artists. (PR Aqua). [...]

In the second part of the interview with the curator of the exhibition “The Expanded Eye” at the Kunsthaus Zürich Bice Curiger talks about the tasks and feelings during the installation of the exhibition, personal favorites, the popularity of contemporary art and the the experience of writing for a weblog. Bice Curiger is curator at [...]

At the same time as the Gallery Weekend, the Halle am Wasser near the Hamburger Bahnhof was inaugurated. One of the galleries at this venue is BodhiBerlin. Bodhi Art has already branches in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore and New York. At the occasion of the opening we met with the artistic director of BodhiBerlin, Shaheen [...]

Art Cologne 2006 is accompanied by an extensive support programme of exclusive receptions, museum and gallery openings, award ceremonies and discussion forums with world-class speakers. This year’s Art Cologne prize goes to Rudolf Zwirner, who is a co-founder of the “Kölner Kunstmarkt” (Cologne Art Fair) in 1967 and one of the founding fathers of Art [...]

At the gallery’s booth VTV correspondent Theodore Bouloukos talks with Steve Zavattero, Co-Director of Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, about the artists presented by the gallery at Pulse Art Fair. At Pulse the gallery shows works of Michael Arcega, Libby Black, Davis & Davis, David Hevel and Lisea Lyons. Part 1/2 of the interview. Pulse [...]

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. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

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 [...]

Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Established & Sons CEO Alasdhair Willis. The British design and manufacturing company Established & Sons received Design Miami/ Basel’s first “Designer of the Future” award “because of their visionary approach has forged a new model for design companies of the 21st century.” (PR Design Miami/ Basel). Alasdhair Willis was a founding member and [...]

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 [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]