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The Wolfsonian design museum in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach, Florida, was founded in 1986 by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. to show his personal design collection. In 1997 he donated the collection and its building to Florida International University. The museum mostly focuses on the late 19th to mid 20th century design. In this [...]

Another off-site location of “Lucky Number Seven“, the SITE Santa Fe Seventh International Biennial, is 1005-G Alto Street in a corner of Santa Fe that’s not easy to find. Here, at an abandoned workshop, Nick Mangan installed a fake excavation site. Nick Mangan was born in 1979 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. He lives and works [...]

Bidoun Projects has invited Sohrab Mohebbi and Özge Ersoy, independent curators based in New York, to curate a video screening for Art Dubai 2010. The screening is part of a survey of video representations of contemporary art in forms of documentations, mediation, educational, and promotional material to investigate the possibilities of the new media outlets. [...]

Until June 21, 2009, the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland is showing The Tracey Emin retrospective 20 Years, the most comprehensive Tracey Emin exhibition to date. We already posted a video that contains shots from the opening reception, and statements by Tracey Emin and the curator of the exhibition, Kathleen Bühler. This video focuses solely on [...]

In the second part of the interview Daniel Hug talks about four of the artists he represents: Michael Queenland, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Michael Wilkinson, and Chris Lipomi. The gallery is based in Los Angeles. Daniel Hug Gallery, Liste 06 – The Young Art Fair, Basel, June 17, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in [...]

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) is a Chicago-based artist who appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language. As media, he mainly uses sculpture, painting and installation. For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Dzine created a new custom lowrider tricycle [...]

Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future. An exhibition of Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with the Triennale di Milano and the Studio Joe Colombo, Milan. Interview with the curator of the exhibition, Mateo Kries, on January 20, 2006. Part 1. Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground “nuclear cities” [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

The 2007 edition of Design Miami features 26 historical and contemporary design galleries. Eight of the 26 participating galleries make their Design Miami debut: Albion, Casati Gallery, DeLorenzo1950, Donzella 20th Century, Galerie de Casson, Geoffrey Diner, Moss Gallery, and Reform Gallery. In addition to the installations by the galleries, the program of the fair includes [...]